This thread is permanently archived
Chinese are bugman
| Heh. They allow the world to shove cultural influence up the arse for the moment, while producing everything, from toilet paper to computers and phones and cars and medical equipment while collecting their money and buying Africa with gold as we speak.
Let the bullshiters speak of 'cultural influence'.
| China is pretty evil tbh.
| https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/04/why-you-havent-heard-of-any-chinese-brands/274736/
The article is some 5 years old, but it strikes the center of this topic.
| >>321463 That is your opinion. I don't consider China evil and no, I am not chinese.
In the meanwhile, most probably the whatever you are using to type to post here is all chinese made with some 'more western' name label. So the said label company divides your money with the chinese producer. It can be argued that the evil is the label name company, because while china produced what you are using, the label company is virtually stealing from you its own share.
| >>321437
>Chinese people are useless cause they have no cultural influence
Where did you hear that bullshit?
You should try to explain this to my kung-fu teacher (he's chinese)...
| They are many and the majority is stuck in their own bubble
| That has to be in of dumber things I heard as China (itself not mono-cultural) influenced and has been influenced by all of it's neighbors and the world at large.
| Yeah... China most certainly does have cultural influence. Only reason it might Not seem so is the strict limitations on media import/export.
| A lot of people seem to forget that many of today's expressions and proverbs are of chinese origin and also form Sun Tze's "Art of War". Divide and Conquer, check. Never punish a messenger for bad news, check. Do not put a cat in a corner, check.
Go visit and see China before speaking about China.
| Chinese eat cats and dogs let that sink in for a moment
| >>322871
Ya, euro-centric people think all the world's culture comes from them, and everyone else were just uneducated savages.
| I think it's true. China hasn't figured out how to export it's culture yet. If people hear Japan or South Korea a lot of cool things come to mind. In hearing China, people may actually be thinking of Hong Kong's cultural exports (pre-return).
| >>323335
Not really the best example but if they had said gunpowder, people would have complained about over using that even though it is hard to imagine a world where gunpowder was invented later than it was.
| >>323497
China is no monoculture. It's a fucking big country with a fucking old history and different geography, ethnicities, languages and dialects.
Also Japanese and Korean culture are rip-offs of chinese cultures. Where do you think Kanji came from? And also these pagode-alike architecture? Buddhism and Martial Arts? (yeah, originally last ones were from india, but also commonly associated with china)
| >>321748
I always thought it's judo:
"Oh yeah, try to throw me - haha - now I'm going to throw you"
| You guys are thinking too much in the long history. I'm talking soft power in modern times. Korea has k-pop/drama, Japan has games/anime. China has culturally exported what in recent history? People unfamiliar think Chinese people still live without electricity. That means China is ineffective at selling its image abroad. Chinese policy currently is trying to correct that but it's backfiring due to the 1984 style government
| >China has culturally exported what in recent history?
Lead paint.
| >>323888
They make really good memes though. Escalators that swallow people and gutter oil are cultural touchstones.
| Oh we forgot pubg shit talkers
| I think its more of your news source not covering China than China not giving an image abroad.
| don't act like y'all don't have a Chinatown in every remotely populated city, China main cultural import are their cuisine, history, martial arts, religion, that dress that every mangaka have a hard on, their fucking panda.
China dont lack of cultural import, it's just overshadowed by Japan and South Korea. You don't go to Mexico to USA right? Same thing if you can go to China then you might as well go to Japan or south Korea
| I been in China 4 years ain't found no goddamn panda
| also people only practice taichi and taekwondo (not even Chinese!)
| Don't worry g/u/rls. Many here take their dose of culture from the CNN so no wonder they have no idea what Chinese culture is and have no idea that in China there are three cities named Beijing, Nanjing and Sijing, the northern, southern and western Jing, respectively. One wonders, where is the eastern Jing? It is right there though, Tongjin. Or otherwise known as Tokyo. In Japan they just read the characters (hanzi) differently. And call them kanji of course.
| China ultimately isn't any more evil than United States and Russia are.
| >>326229 Umm hello, Tiananmen Square massacre? Pretty fucking evil gunning down your citizens like that.
| Meanwhile United Stated and Russia are bombing other countries. I guess it's okay if you're covert about it, or if you do it somewhere else.
| >>324522 Taijichuan IS chineese. And I have lived in China too for 4 years and noone practiced taekwondoo. Which sucks big by the way. I practice xinyi and a bit of bagua myself and would accept a challenge from some taekwondoo fighter anyday.
| >>321748 Being ignorant and missinformed is not China's fault.
Kung fu does not mean martial art. It means 'masterity', or 'great ability'. When you say "Your kungfu is awesome" the ability is implied from context.
And as a second point to your ignorance, martial arts were born in China, no matter what they tell you about Japan, Korea, Brasil, or other place which will be in fashion that year.
This thread is permanently archived
| I keep hearing this talking point that Chinese people are useless cause they have no cultural influence. Why does cultural influence matter? They seem like very productive people