The 'Chinese Phantom' phenomenon

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You'll hate me for this but have a think yourselves (I'll cite my sources)

Chinese are missing a gene which makes them weak to alcohol.

http://www.wisegeek.org/do-people-of-asian-descent-have-difficulty-metabolizing-alcohol.htm#didyouknowout

British culture revolves around massive excessive alcohol consumption.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10309607/Britain-has-a-drinking-problem-and-it-needs-help.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21586566

Another facet of British culture is picking up sexual partners and taking them home to swap STDs

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/nearly-one-quarter-of-college-students-in-britain-will-get-an-std-freshman/

Asian men are considered least attractive of all men

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sunil-adam/no-eharmony-with-asian-me_b_872507.html

So lets hypothesise a typical British night out..

Go out drink as much as possible as fast as possible, pick up somebody for sex, exchange STDs

Optional ~ have a fight, a kebab and throw up.

So you can't drink, you can't pull and the kebab looks like something you stepped on in the street.

Come on this is not a million miles away from reality, you want to be part of that kind of culture? I see this happen every Friday and Saturday in Manchester.

Reply 21

ukmed108

Original post by Justpin

Truth is that the culture just isn't the same, btw not all Chinese people miss the gene. I can drink a lot without getting drunk. I'd say maybe 30% do get red in the face when drinking. Besides which, social drinking is huge in China, and the chinese have Maotai, except its usually during business meetings.

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Reply 22

TurpanBazaar

People from Shandong and Northerners generally CAN drink. Not many of them overseas though.

Reply 23

Yi-Ge-Ningderen

Original post by Xueni Bian

People from Shandong and Northerners generally CAN drink. Not many of them overseas though.

你的英文很好

Reply 24

Swanbow

What I've found with students from East Asia is that they are either end of the social scale. Either they dive in fully to their new setting and are very social, or that they withdraw and don't socialise outside of their nationality. It must mostly be due to cultural shock, moving half way around the world to meet people who have a totally different attitude to life probably isn't easy to deal with. You'll see that Chinese students from Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia make a better effort to integrate and socialise probably due to the Anglicisation of these countries making them more aware of British culture and customs. I just find it sad that you'd spend thousands of pounds travelling half way around the world for an education only to be amongst your own people and not explore or try immerse yourself in local culture. (a bit like the British in Benidorm)

Reply 25

blueberrycheng

Hello! I'm a Singaporean and I feel Singaporeans are rather outgoing an friendly! 😁 a lot of them go oversea to further their education as it's less stressful and too competitive locally.

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Reply 26

Malevolent

Yup all Chinese are phantoms.

Reply 27

TurpanBazaar

Original post by Yi-Ge-Ningderen

你的英文很好

Sorry. Grammatical error. "People from Shandong and OTHER NORTHERN PARTS OF CHINA generally can drink". Thank you for your compliment/sarcasm. :tongue:

Reply 28

River85

Original post by SHallowvale

This thread comes under ''Educational Debate'', right? So, what's your point?

It didn't when it was made (February 2012), as Educational Debate didn't exist until just under a year ago. It would have been made in General University Discussion which is now defunct

Anyway, closing the thread as it's an old thread. We try not to allow old threads (those that have been inactive for 6+ months) to be bumped. :hat2: