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24 octobre 2008

Comment reconnaitre un étranger en Chine ?

You know your a wai guo ren when...
j'ai pris cette drôle de liste sur un group facebook et je trouve que ça résume assez bien notre quotidien, désolé de ne pas traduire, j'ai pas trop le temps
*wai guo  ren = étranger

1. Silk Market women call you "handsome boy"
2. You never get over how cheap the beer is
3. You almost always get 10 kuai shots before you go to the club
4. You'll walk 10 minutes out of the way to get to a regular toilet.
5. You take pictures of english signs that are wrong
6. You think nothing of paying 50-60 kuai for a pizza.
7.When bai jiu isn't appealing to you (and you know your an alchoholic when you willingly drink more than 10 shots of it, Mike...)
8. You feel fluent in mandarin when overseas but absolutely 没有用when in mainland China.
9. You look at something at home and think, "I could get this for better and cheaper in the Silk Market".
10. Your the only person in the resturant wearing a real pair of Nike's
11. Kung Pow Ji Ding has a special place in your heart
12. Ting Bu Dong is a part of your daily vocabulary
13. A DVD you bought is in Japanese, Korean or Russian, and you watched it anyway
14. You've explained what 'The Pill' is
15. You've been offered modeling jobs that lead nowhere
16. The sight of a child shitting in the street is no longer shocking to you
17. You take your life in your hands crossing the street
18. You've learned swears from cab drivers
19. Grunting is a perfectly acceptable form of communication
20. You find yourself wishing for 2 kuai beers everywhere you go.
21. There is nothing embarrassing about giving a taxi driver your cell phone
22. The Silk Market is an acceptable weekend hangout.
23. You have a giant collection of pirated DVDs (movies AND TV series).
24. You buy new socks cus youre too lazy to do laundry
25. "bu yao...bu yao....bu yao"
26. Parents send their kids to you on the street to practice their english
27. You respond to Chinese conversations about you.
28. You cringe when you hear "art" and "student" in the same sentence.
29. Taxi Drivers tell you your chinese is amazing when all you've told them is where you want to go.
30. Everytime you meet a local chinese they insist on telling you that china has 5000 years of history
31. Youve been in china too long and you do not hesitate to spit/fart/burp/scratch you ass/pick your nose at the table.
32. You speak better Chinese than your Chinese friends overseas.
33. You come home from China and miss parents sending their children to take pictures of you
34. You often recieve a spontanious "HELLO!!!" when walking down the street.
35. You're content eating rice three times a day to get on a healthy, non-oil diet.
36. When you talk in Mandarin and people reply in English
37. When there's an accident on the street and you're the only one stopping to offer help
38. When girls stop and tell you (a girl) how beautiful you are
39. When they think you're an American because Chinese is not your mother-tongue
40. When shopkeepers try and sell you things at a price X times higher than the one they would charge a Chinese person.
41. You saw a man kick a woman in the stomach
42. You've gone behind the bar to make a drink that the bartender never heard of
43. You order up a shot of whiskey and got whiskey flavored piss

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