Is is like standard operating procedure, somewhere in the ten bazillion rules for having a foreign teacher at your institution, that at least one of them has to be a pervert
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Expat brats- kids of diplomats and business people. The 16 year old counterparts to the 60 year old drunks/sleazes.
Students. Some serious, some fuck-ups delaying reality as long as possible.
Partiers. See the fucked-up students, but some of them disguise themselves as teachers or business people.
Backpackers- teaching or studying as an excuse to travel, hang out, experience the world, find themselves, whatever.
Married and settled down, not necessarily a sinologue. Probably has a decent understanding of the language and culture, maybe not so in depth as to quote Zhuangzi.
Retired or delaying retirement. Not perverts, but enjoying a 'second youth'. Got their kids into university or work, now they're free to live some of the dreams they had in their younger days.
I find myself hating foreigners here who never learn any Chinese because their wife/girlfriend/fuck-buddy can do all of the talking for them. They seem almost proud about their ignorance.
A general category: Losers. The Chinese think most of us fall into this category, and some of us actually do. (I know that Chris may have this already covered with a couple of his categories.)
I don't know about Chris' experience when he was in 'Jin, but here I find that most of the Expat Brats are Asian rather than European/North American. For example, most of the Mongolians in Tianjin are the sons and daughters of Mongolian politicians and businessmen who mope around on mommy and daddy's money. Same with many Koreans and Japanese. Other countries, not so much, though I do know a few Europeans who are here to do business with their parents' seed money as a base.
Re: Good postchriswaugh_bjDecember 5 2006, 04:26:18 UTC
Yup, I would say expat brats are much more diverse up here. There are so many more diplomats and business people from so many more countries. That diversity is not always a good thing. And I think pretty much all the non-Asian foreigners I met in Tianjin were either studying or teaching. Business people, yes, and a few like one of your namesakes who claimed to be doing business but didn't seem very credible, but not many expat brats.
One of my namesakes, a non-credible businessman? Say it ain't so!
One murky presence in Tianjin is people who come here on "business" visas and only seem to bum around while drawing on their savings or mom and dad's purse. Does Beijing get a lot of folks like that? They're not students, they're not teachers, they're not even trying to do business...
Re: Good postchriswaugh_bjDecember 6 2006, 04:29:52 UTC
Yeah, a Pom, forty-something.
And I'm sure Beijing gets a lot of that kind of "business" people. I just haven't met any. Don't think it'd take too much searching to find them. We get all sorts here.
With all due respect, I'd add creationists: seeking to dispel the malign influence of evolutionary science. Well, Christians with personal 'missions' generally. They seem perfectly nice people but I don't understand them, and why are they ... just why? In sinologist guise, these can be interesting people to talk to.
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Expat brats- kids of diplomats and business people. The 16 year old counterparts to the 60 year old drunks/sleazes.
Students. Some serious, some fuck-ups delaying reality as long as possible.
Partiers. See the fucked-up students, but some of them disguise themselves as teachers or business people.
Backpackers- teaching or studying as an excuse to travel, hang out, experience the world, find themselves, whatever.
Married and settled down, not necessarily a sinologue. Probably has a decent understanding of the language and culture, maybe not so in depth as to quote Zhuangzi.
Retired or delaying retirement. Not perverts, but enjoying a 'second youth'. Got their kids into university or work, now they're free to live some of the dreams they had in their younger days.
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Freaks. They're just plain freaks.
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I want to slap them with a frozen tuna. HARD.
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A general category: Losers. The Chinese think most of us fall into this category, and some of us actually do. (I know that Chris may have this already covered with a couple of his categories.)
I don't know about Chris' experience when he was in 'Jin, but here I find that most of the Expat Brats are Asian rather than European/North American. For example, most of the Mongolians in Tianjin are the sons and daughters of Mongolian politicians and businessmen who mope around on mommy and daddy's money. Same with many Koreans and Japanese. Other countries, not so much, though I do know a few Europeans who are here to do business with their parents' seed money as a base.
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One murky presence in Tianjin is people who come here on "business" visas and only seem to bum around while drawing on their savings or mom and dad's purse. Does Beijing get a lot of folks like that? They're not students, they're not teachers, they're not even trying to do business...
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And I'm sure Beijing gets a lot of that kind of "business" people. I just haven't met any. Don't think it'd take too much searching to find them. We get all sorts here.
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fuckers
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