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blellow

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Q: Why do some Chinese men grow their pinkynail long?

10 years 18 weeks ago in General - China

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estern

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It's a desperate attempt to prove they are not farmers. The logic being that if they were doing manual labor that fingernail would get knocked off.

The irony is that by trying to prove that they are not peasants, all they actually achieve is showing the rest of us that they still have the mindset of a peasant.

expatlife26:

Yeah i've heard that one too. ALmost like a male version of foot binding. Make yourself useless physicially to show your status.

But yeah of course nowadays anybody that's worried somebody might think they are a farmer is a total loser and only showing their lack of cultural capital

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kasuka91:

I see it and just think that a cokehead is at large! Lol

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It's a desperate attempt to prove they are not farmers. The logic being that if they were doing manual labor that fingernail would get knocked off.

The irony is that by trying to prove that they are not peasants, all they actually achieve is showing the rest of us that they still have the mindset of a peasant.

expatlife26:

Yeah i've heard that one too. ALmost like a male version of foot binding. Make yourself useless physicially to show your status.

But yeah of course nowadays anybody that's worried somebody might think they are a farmer is a total loser and only showing their lack of cultural capital

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kasuka91:

I see it and just think that a cokehead is at large! Lol

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It's also so they can pick their orifices more easily...usually in public.

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