About the Chinese men-foreign women relationship…I did know a few in China, but I also didn’t meet too many foreign women who came to China without a husband/boyfriend.

And for the record, we speak English just fine here in Jersey.

Yeah, that’s the guy. I just wiklpediaed him and it turns out he didn’t really live up to the hype. Looks like he played college ball at Towson State and then professional in Israel for a while, but never made it close to the NBA.

as for Chinese/Foreigner pairs, it has to do with social status
given the choice, most women (chinese or not) naturally chooses the foreigner even if all else are equal, simply because male europeans are perceived to be of a higher status than chinese males

and given that most people are not equal, with foreigners generally making more money, have foreign citizenship and so on and it is simple why chinese women flocks to foreign men

Chinese women are prefered over Chinese men because:
1. they cook
2. they clean
3 they (or their parents) look after the children.
4. they’re pretty.

however they:
1. prowl for men when they’re single, but then once they have you they become wicked and control all the money etc. (which is probably ok, since Chinese men like to whore with their money)

Chinese men:
1.Like to go whoring for fun.
2. Are dishonest
3.smoke, gamble.

I hardly exhausted this list, and of course these are all generalisations. However I’ve lived in China and have decided that Chinese women are way above Chinese men for these reasons.

well, ppl of the old generation didn’t have much education thx to MooseDung, so spare them if they affended you.

But sometimes, their ignorance causes serious troubles. like u kno in china, ppl in the food industry like branding their food with nationalities to creat some kind of exoticness, eg ‘french’, ‘italian’ ‘kosher’ etc., there was once, a dude branded his pork “islamic pork清真猪肉” and freaked out all the Hui-ppl, and those muslims were like trying to jihad, and that forced the police to shoot them.

btw, im a chinese living in NZ.

This is a very enjoyable & enlightening blog! However, I have a few comments on your friend’s “know-it-all” uncle:

(1) He commented that most Beijing taxi drivers were migrant workers from Henan and Hebei. Your discreet observations and inquries informed you that (a) the cabbie claimed s/he was from Beijing and (b) several of them quoted a local regulation whereby all cab drivers within Beijing city limits must be residents of Beijing. To be fair, I could reasonably pose that (a) the cabbies were lying to cover their identities (albeit their lack of Beijing Hua and inability to locate places outside of the popular tourist spots could prove the case!) and (b) local regulations could always made “flexible” for entrepenerial locals – for instance, the actual owner of the taxi licenses is a Beijingren but s/he rents her/his cabs to migrant workers in need. As the late Chairman once said, “Fish can’t live in pure water …”

(2) The famous sinologist, Perry Link, also encountered the same mental obstacles and ingrained pride with his male Chinese counterparts during a Princeton conference. His book, “Evening Chats in Beijing”, describes his casual & friendly meetings with several mainland Chinese scholars and scientists. When he was challenged on an interpretation of a certain arachaic Yuan dynasty poem by a typical alpha male who had a doctorate in the Hard Sciences, Dr. Link merrily quoted back with relative ease and posed another obscure poem question of his. That’s when alpha males suddenly bit their lips, turned beet red, grumbled something unintelligible and hurried off somewhere else leaving him to think — WTF? Sometimes, I’m amazed why must we Chinese should readily know about EVERYTHING under the sun about our history, culture, language, etc.?

I’m reminded of an incident when I was at a Tibetan temple in Qinghai – a man behind us on our tour bus asked his companion if the prayer flags were in English or Tibetan. Tibetan (which was covering the flags) does not in the slightest resemble English. The lack of knowledge within China of China’s minorites is sometimes disappointing, especially with the frequent references to the 56 minorities and their “colorful” cultures. I would say thinking that the Uyghur are Jewish (they are by no means obscure and even before coming I had known they were Muslim) is on par with an American thinking Native Americans are Buddhists, and that would sound pretty ridiculous. I’m positive there are plenty of cultured, well-read Chinese men, but I wish I could meet more of them.