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Q: Why did you come to China?

Just out of curiosity. 

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To steal Chinese money and to borrow Chinese women.

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Heh, do you know how many times I asked myself the same question?

 

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Me too! I came to China just out  of curiosity.

 

What a splendid answer I wrote, so early in AM ...

 

I also learned how to properly c&p ... 

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To have a look.

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no why

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Use the search function - you’ll find lots more f different replies to this being asked before...

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Rice.

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Sometimes I ask myself the same question

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To steal Chinese money and to borrow Chinese women.

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Stage 53.45 of my world domination plan is to secretly control China. (Don’t tell anyone, ok?)

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Why don't Chinese ask their fellow Chinese (10s of million)  who live abroad this question?

icnif77:

'Tits' is very perky, here-o ... 

'Up' for a valor ... LOLOL

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to be with the 2nd love of my life

 

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I was paid 2 salaries: my usual salary at home plus  10,000 RMB every month re-location bonus.

Also the experience of living and working in China - you can't buy experience like that.

 

(i could add for sh**s and giggles) 

ScotsAlan:

You claim to be an expat homeschool genius, but you boast about earning 10k a month. Cool.

 

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i never claimed to be a 'home-school genius' (please include link if i did)

but i was paid 2 salaries when in China (i have mentioned this in passing before) - it was the only way the company could get people to agree to work in China as it is a challenging environment for those working to deadlines in an environment of thinly veiled passive/aggressive behaviour to non-Chinese (especially non Chinese women who also have to deal with a more sexist environment than at home).

 

As I said, it was a great learning experience for me too.

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My humbe apologies. Got you mixed up with someone else. Sorry.

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I agree with you Blondie on the experience you get while living and working in China. Nothing compares to it. If it doesn't kill you, it will make you strong. If it doesn't turn you nuts, then you might have found that essential source of strength which will make you run miles and miles of struggles yet never fall down nor feel defeated. 

 

You are challenged on every aspect of  life; it pushes you to know yourself better and better and makes you become as such or worse. Then you choose which way to become. 

 

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Because I wanted to come to China.

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New chapter in my life. Best chapter so far.

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i want loved long time

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that's taiguo 

or Phil? or 'nam? or Mexico,, or just good ol' LA,,, darn,,, I forget...

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Dongguan is closed... allegedly... no it’s not.

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Consider this ...

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

 

China does not belong to China, just as no country belongs to anyone.

 

To quote Carl Sagan.....

 

 

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

— Carl Sagan, speech at Cornell University, October 13, 1994

 

 

Sort of says it all really. 

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 To quote Carl Sagan....referencing the blue dot photo from voyager.

 

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

— Carl Sagan, speech at Cornell University, October 13, 1994

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