Chinese Musings

[foxglovehp]

Did you ever wonder what the garden-variety working-class Chinese person thinks about us here in the US?  Most of our shit is manufactured over there.  Some of these things are for occasions and concepts that are probably completely alien to the average Chinese.

For example, artificial Christmas, er, "Holiday" er, now apparently they are "Family"

Comments

[sheamackenzie]

I just laughed maniacally and read this aloud to the computer lab (all 2 people).

My flist is awesome. ^_^

[foxglovehp]

Sorry if I screwed up your lab time. Did I get you to shoot milk out your nose yet? It isn't good until I can make you shoot milk out your nose.

Not So Different

[anonymous]

I would be willing to bet that the typical Chinese worker at an assembly line thinks the same thing as a worker at an assembly line anywhere: "Three more hours and my shift is over... If that new guy two stations down doesn't stop humming, he'll end up going through the extruder feet first and no one will have seen nothin'... My feet are killing me."

-- Eugene

Re: Not So Different

[foxglovehp]

Perhaps so...

So if he succeeds is putting the new guy through the extruder, then you'd have a Chinese Christmas tree AND a Chinese New Year?