conquering the world one oxymoron at a time
March 24, 2006 at 12:45 pm
· Filed under dating/relationships
This video’s been going around the internet for a while: yellow fever. It is absolutely hilarious (I especially love the guy’s shirt), and in general well done and accurate, all except ONE STATEMENT, and it’s been bugging me ever since I first saw the video a couple of months ago. The video claims that white guys who say “ni hao ma” to asian (chinese) girls totally win them over. I say NO WAY. White guys who say “ni hao ma” are just trying too hard. I mean, come on. I know you’re white, and I know you don’t speak chinese, so quit trying to impress me with your random chinese phrases and get on with your life.
White guys who tell me “ni hao ma” also bias me into thinking that they have asian fetishes, and that is just plain creepy. The population with whom the “ni hao ma” pickup line may work are the fobbish girls. You know? The ones who can barely speak english, or speak it with a heavy accent? The phrase would also work for white men trying to pick up girls in China; they dig white men who can speak random chinese phrases over there.
–Random street conversation in Shanghai–
White guy: ni hao! wo shi mei guo ren (spoken with all the wrong intonations)
Chinese girl: *swoon* yahhhh! ni hao shuai ya!! ni hui shuo zhong wen!!! hi, how ah yuuu?
White guy: I don’t speak chinese, I just know how to say “ni hao”
Chinese girl: waaaaa! ni shi mei guo ren!! ni hao shuai yaaaa!!!
As for the rest of us Americanized Chinese girls, white men who throw out the random Chinese phrases just don’t cut it. And I can’t even begin to imagine how much more of a turn-off it must be for Japanese/Korean girls who get the “ni hao” treatment …
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Jay wrote @ March 25th, 2006 at 4:59 am
Hahaha. That’s so true, yet so funny. The video is great, but the story was dragging a bit. Till this day, I still don’t know understand why FOB Chinese and Japanese girls love White guys who attempt to say ni hao ma. It’s definitely not that because the while guy is handsome. And it couldn’t be because they’re U.S. citizens. Is it true that white guys that go for asian girls because they couldn’t make it with a white girl?
Paula wrote @ March 26th, 2006 at 11:50 am
like i said, i’m sure i’d find it even funnier if i were asian, but it still had me laughing out loud… thanks for sharing :)
[…] I agree with the film’s main assertion that there are far more Chinese girls dating white boys than vice versa. Like Shan, however, I totally disagree with the hypothesis that white guys can charm a girl with a few phrases of (poor) Chinese. As if! Based on what many girls have told me for many years, I must also beg to differ with a few of their other claims, in particular: […]
Or even if the girl is Chinese, what if a guy starts speaking Mandarin, but she only knows Cantonese?
Too bad the universal languages aren’t more poetic. One could try math: Let G be the set of “everyone’s beauty,” and let your attractiveness be t. Then t > x for every x that is an element of G. QED.
And C++ only works well in writing:
#include
void main (void)
{
char date_ans;
while (date_ans != ‘y’)
{
cout > date_ans;
if (date_ans == ‘y’)
cout
Ouch. This thing really sucks up the HTML tags. My comment has been butchered! :-(
Pandax wrote @ March 31st, 2006 at 7:24 pm
That was great! Thanks for sharing. Goes well with just watching “American Fusion” at the Asian American Film Festival. I loved seeing UCSD in there too.
Wade D wrote @ April 25th, 2006 at 12:19 am
Sorry,2 have read all the statements about WHITE guys with ASIAN
Wade D wrote @ April 25th, 2006 at 12:22 am
Sorry,2 have read all the statements about WHITE guys with ASIANS
Wade D wrote @ April 25th, 2006 at 12:32 am
My girl is ASIAN and I’m WHITE ,yet she’ll tell everyone how good her WHITE man treats her.So why be mad at us,anyway I can be with a white girl if I wanted to.ooo! my fault I fell in love with a beautful and smart korean girl.At least I’m not dirty and black.
Krissy wrote @ April 25th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
I’m a white girl and I think that asian guy’s are so hot!
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