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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’ve heard this logic from Chinese coworkers. “Chinese are so poor and uneducated, they need to have information selectively given to them.” I was amazed.


16 posted on 04/18/2009 12:23:28 PM PDT by Sir Gawain ("Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect" - Thoreau)
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To: Sir Gawain

Have you ever heard your Chinese coworkers use the term “lao wai”?

It would be in reference to another person.

“Lao wai”. Foreigner.

Ironically, you will very often hear Chinese in America, use the term to refer to non-Chinese. “Lao wai”.

Foreigner.


20 posted on 04/18/2009 12:26:55 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Got Tea?)
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