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Reply 60

Ditting Suck

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Rogery

Japanese copied everything from us lol.

What, like an economy based on manufacturing and heavy industry?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Reply 61

Googloo

How many Chinese students can actually speak mandarin fluently? Perhaps can even read and write?

Reply 62

ornitier

Camford dude, what are you on about not being able to use oil?! I'm not from pembroke but i'm pretty sure you can. You're definitely allowed to at king's. Perhaps you mean you're not allowed deep fat fryers and toasters in your room?

I cook almost all the time nowadays mostly a roast dinner type thing without the roast. Pasta...easy. Random stuff. I do have a rice cooker which i use quite frequently, so if you become friends with me, I might share my big bag of rice! :eek:

Born in HK, came here when i was 5. Cannot speak madarin but i can speak cantonese, just lacking in a bit of vocabulary, but in terms of pronunciation i''m good.

Stuff about Japanese copying 95% of chinese...I guess it all depends on the time frame. We are all from the same species, and we all migrated many years ago from someplace in africa! In fact I see myself as african :smile:

(despite the fact that they would most likely not have called it africa back then)! I can understand the anger/bias from many chinese people when talking about japanese people and wounds take time to heal. But don't they say that you should be proud that they copied off your work because it shows that they like it, admire your work or something along those lines. You could even say that parts of the modern chinese culture has copied off Japanese ones too. I thought it was still hip to listen to Jpop and read manga, or buy hello kitty stuff etc. as examples (not that I like any doing any of those things :biggrin:

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Also...calling chinese people weird because they hang with chinese people is not nice. I know a fair few asian people who generally hung with other asians for socialising and only talking to anyone else for help, but to be honest, a lot of things within the asian culture could only be understood by asian people. You can have a hard time explaining stuff to people of non-asian descent if your english isn't that good anyway. I've seen chinese people dismissed by people as not serious because to them they do things slightly differently. Most, if not all of them had only been in the country within the past year or so before college or on arriving at college, so you can't expect an awful lot can you?

Hah funny thing ...my parents, my mum especially, don't want me to become a doctor anymore realising that i could be exposed to all sorts of rare exotic diseases. Also me wanting to travel around the world helping out didn't excite them either. But to me, it is definitely exactly what I want to be and do! Always wanted to become a scientist when I was small, then an inventor, at one point an astronaut, then towards the laters years a journalist (particularly in war torn countries). Since I was rubbish at writing, that was stupid. So combine science with wanting to help people out...= medicine at cam! The end.

Reply 63

Rogery

OP

I feel the urge to argue but cant be assed typing a proper reply to your annoyingly large post.

Reply 64

Camford

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Ditting Suck

But Japanese culture has now developed completely differently, so it's nothing like 95%. That's a bit like saying that "Britain assimilated 95% of its culture from Rome". While this was true 2,000 years ago, it's largely irrelevant today.

If I didn't know any better, I'd say 90% of the Japanese are ****ed up in the heads. Look at their TV shows... I mean WTF?!

Reply 65

Camford

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ornitier

Camford dude, what are you on about not being able to use oil?! I'm not from pembroke but i'm pretty sure you can. You're definitely allowed to at king's. Perhaps you mean you're not allowed deep fat fryers and toasters in your room?

May I suggest you get hold of a copy of the Pembroke Laws before telling me what you are allowed and not allowed to do in Pembroke. If you haven't noticed, Pembroke is not King's. We are not a bunch of liberal hippies like you guys :p:

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Any of your new comers out there that care to read this. if you want to cook with oil go ahead. But when you set off the fire alarm and get fined by your college, don't come and cry to me about it.

Reply 66

Camford

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Googloo

How many Chinese students can actually speak mandarin fluently? Perhaps can even read and write?

You'd be surpised. It's in the hundreds. What you need to do is to find one of these things called "The Reporter". Now, the one you want is the one that lists all the "Scholars". It comes out...... yeah, you need to ask your nearest librarian about it, they'll know. Now, once you have it, look through the list until you find China in there somewhere. Then you count the numbers, both undergraduates and graduates. Write down the number somewhere. Find a calculator and take into account that not all Chinese students in Cambridge receive a scholarship. The number is roughly 1 in 2. So double what you have there, then you'll have a gross estimate of how many Chinese students Cambridge takes in in a year. Now triple that. Also keep in mind that special edition of "The Reporter" only covers students come from outside the UK.

Reply 67

Rogery

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Camford

If I didn't know any better, I'd say 90% of the Japanese are ****ed up in the heads. Look at their TV shows... I mean WTF?!

Lol ****ing right!!

Reply 68

Tonheuru

swntzu

Isn't this a Chinese thread primarilyfor Chinese people?

That seems a bit of a strange thing to say considering that most of you are 华侨 and if you're not then you've been living in a western country for most of your life and can't actually even speak Chinese.

Rogery

So if we cant cook chinese stuff at Cambridge.......I'll die of english food poisoning. Or end up paralysed.

You mean to tell me you've been here since you were 5 and still only eat Chinese food? Surely that's as bad as English people not eating pasta or something! You won't die if you don't use chopsticks for a meal or two!

Ok, I get that your parents are Chinese. But how many of you have a western passport instead of a Chinese one? How many of you are planning to live in China when you're older? Why are you insisting on this ghetto mentality of only mixing with 'Chinese' people?

Reply 69

Camford

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*Waves hands* I hold a Chinese passport... not technically... since it's with my parents. So if a police walks up to me and say "can I see your passport?" I'll be like "No, cos I don avi." Then the next thing I know, I'll be on a plane back to whence I came.

Given the choice, I'd rather not eat my food with chopsticks. Not that I can't use them, matter of fact, I can use them with both my hands. I like the simple things. Therefore knife and fork FTW!

However, I don't plan to leave out the remaining days of my life in China. Once I get a few million pounds in my bank account, I'm going to buy an island and live it up in teh Caribbean Jack Sparrow style. (i.e. drink rum all day long until Keira Knightley decides to burn everything.)

Reply 70

ornitier

Camford

*Waves hands* I hold a Chinese passport... not technically... since it's with my parents. So if a police walks up to me and say "can I see your passport?" I'll be like "No, cos I don avi." Then the next thing I know, I'll be on a plane back to whence I came..)

I don't think everyone in the UK has a passport anyway, which is why they can't send you back unless you tell them where you are from. Isn't this why they want to introduce identity cards? Don't worry man I won't let them take you away anyhow!

Camford

Given the choice, I'd rather not eat my food with chopsticks. Not that I can't use them, matter of fact, I can use them with both my hands. I like the simple things. Therefore knife and fork FTW!

You're always welcome to come over to my place with vis and share rice with me. Please tell me you use chopsticks for rice? Or do you prefer it on plate?

Reply 71

Camford

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ornitier

I don't think everyone in the UK has a passport anyway, which is why they can't send you back unless you tell them where you are from. Isn't this why they want to introduce identity cards? Don't worry man I won't let them take you away anyhow!

ZOMG!

ornitier

You're always welcome to come over to my place with vis and share rice with me. Please tell me you use chopsticks for rice? Or do you prefer it on plate?

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Reply 72

gwright

I think Camford's had a brain meltdown.

Reply 73

Camford

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gwright

I think Camford's had a brain meltdown.

Sif noob. I pwn!

Camford [Hammer] gwright

Camford: PWNT!

Reply 74

Rogery

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Tonheuru

You mean to tell me you've been here since you were 5 and still only eat Chinese food? Surely that's as bad as English people not eating pasta or something! You won't die if you don't use chopsticks for a meal or two!

I know. But if I eat english food 24/7 then I might.

Tonheuru

Ok, I get that your parents are Chinese. But how many of you have a western passport instead of a Chinese one? How many of you are planning to live in China when you're older? Why are you insisting on this ghetto mentality of only mixing with 'Chinese' people?

I don't u ****tard. That's why I was pointing out that the Chinese dudes who only hang with other Chinese dudes are slightly weird.

Reply 75

sassygirl

Ditting Suck

But Japanese culture has now developed completely differently, so it's nothing like 95%. That's a bit like saying that "Britain assimilated 95% of its culture from Rome". While this was true 2,000 years ago, it's largely irrelevant today.

Possibly a more relevant comparison would be America to UK. American English retains some language features that are from 17th century British English, and obviously some food has been adopted e.g. Sunday roast. Traditional Japanese kimonos (and the traditional Korean clothes) bear striking similarity to ancient Chinese fashions of particular times. Also, the languages clearly have the same route, seeing as how the Japanese and Koreans use Chinese characters.

I agree that it's nothing like 95% though. I think Chinese culture thoroughly influenced the history and traditional culture of Japan is probably a better way of putting it. Modern Japan is, er, quite unique.

Reply 76

Ditting Suck

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Yes sassygirl, I agree with what you say - and you put it far better than I do.

The only thing I would say is that the whole idea of 'Japanese culture evolved from Chinese culture' is a bit warped. Really, it is 'Modern Japanese and modern Chinese cultures have both evolved in different directions from those of ancient China, where most of the modern populations of China and Japan come from'. It's a bifurcation rather than just a case of Japanese culture budding off. Geographical location is largely irrelevant.

Reply 77

Ditting Suck

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Camford

Given the choice, I'd rather not eat my food with chopsticks. Not that I can't use them, matter of fact, I can use them with both my hands. I like the simple things. Therefore knife and fork FTW!