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Q: Have you acquired a better sense of humour since living in China?
The way I see it, frustration in China can either drive a man insane or have him standing by the side laughing it all away. I frequently flutter between the two, though I think overall living in China has taught me laugh when the going gets tough and not get so wound up by things as I asked to.
I miss the humour back home. You just cannot have any decent banter here without winding somebody up the wrong way. The Chinese culture seems to have nothing along the lines of banter and the people just take everything so sensitively.
I try to just laugh about it and say, oh you China, at again aren't you
I just had to laugh when I lost my passport and the final hoop I had to jump through was signing a piece of paper under "Loser's Sigature."
One of my strongest attributes at home was my wit and humor.
This is 100% lost on the locals and I am losing my mind here...humor loses all context in translation.
No...I have become quite cynical and cold as a result.
Even when I watch crazy funny movies with the gf and friends the humor is usually lost on them.
Case study...try watching Monty Python (anything) with a local.
I THINK I have...the jury’s out as far as public opinion goes.
I think having a sense of humour is necessary to get through all kinds of s**t, not only a BCD
a BCD is made tolerable if you can find 1 thing to laugh at, and there have been days it has been difficult to do even this.
If there isn't an ex-pat in your vicinity a forum like this is good to compare the randomness of some of the stuff that happens on a daily basis, some of which is inexplicable.
Even now I think of some things i have experienced that i can't get my head around, but have laughed over with friends.
Well I've had two consecutive semi-BCDs (though only because my computer has broken, nothing to do with China per-se), and although it is of extreme annoyance and worry (my whole life is literally on there - including my spleen) I seem to have been dealing with it quite well and not panicking as much as I may have done before.
Yes. China invented humour. The Chinese make the whole world laugh.
I used to be always firing off come backs, my life is rural and quieter now, no one to pick on. In China I have to explain why something I say is funny and no one gets it. My GF hates that I'm always making jokes.
I'd say my sense of humour in China is on hold, usually the most I can get away with is miming or face making, unless I meet foreigners. I met a guy from Austria and I had him rolling, nice to see that I haven't completely lost it, cause its a bit depressing when I say something really funny to Chinese and its so far over there head that it needs explaining.
I have acquired a different sense of humor, more punning, less dirty jokes. I think it would be difficult to survive life in China without making jokes all the time.
