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Oh the irony...

Post by Tassia » 04 Jun 2009, 14:40

http://www.theage.com.au/national/china ... -bvpe.html

Considering what anniversary we are close to, I couldn't stop laughing.

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Post by Cartollomew » 04 Jun 2009, 14:51

Yeh, that's pretty funny; I like how we had some protests in the eastern states and students were whining about police brutality (note: not in favour of police brutality) because one or two students wound up with sprains, bruises or dislocations.

Perhaps we should remind China that their students are free to protest over here without fear of tanks?

Well okay, that's not very diplomatic.
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Post by Mitra » 04 Jun 2009, 14:53

we have a chinese exchange student staying with us at the moment.

she has never heard of what happened at tiannenmen square.

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Post by Kayleb » 04 Jun 2009, 15:35

Mitra wrote:we have a chinese exchange student staying with us at the moment.

she has never heard of what happened at tiannenmen square.

gg 1984
thats criminal... and they filter the content in china on the internet etc.
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Post by Cartollomew » 04 Jun 2009, 15:47

Everyone censors their history to some extent, but yeh - there's only so long China can keep this up.
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Post by Lellybaby » 04 Jun 2009, 15:50

Mitra wrote:we have a chinese exchange student staying with us at the moment.

she has never heard of what happened at tiannenmen square.

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You mean 1989? which is when that photo was taken?
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Post by Cartollomew » 04 Jun 2009, 16:00

Lellybaby wrote:You mean 1989? which is when that photo was taken?
1984
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Post by Lellybaby » 04 Jun 2009, 16:08

Cartollomew wrote:
Lellybaby wrote:You mean 1989? which is when that photo was taken?
1984
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Oh you mean the novel entitled 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'.....
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Post by Xact » 04 Jun 2009, 16:18

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Post by Evilelmo » 12 Jun 2009, 21:35

mmm...i don't think the Chinese government has anything to worry about over here. And yes i love the irony of it heh.

I remember all the hardcore white dudes back in high school around my area were perpetually scared of any group of Asian boys (even with glasses) walking together, lol. The Asian population in Melbourne and Sydney are quite large and you have Asian gangs (or try hard gangs?) littered all over the place that would love an opportunity to fight.


and Asians always fight in crowds lol.



besides, we know kung fu
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Post by Cartollomew » 13 Jun 2009, 02:21

Evilelmo wrote:besides, we know kung fu
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Post by Takius » 13 Jun 2009, 15:49

Evilelmo wrote:mmm...i don't think the Chinese government has anything to worry about over here. And yes i love the irony of it heh.

I remember all the hardcore white dudes back in high school around my area were perpetually scared of any group of Asian boys (even with glasses) walking together, lol. The Asian population in Melbourne and Sydney are quite large and you have Asian gangs (or try hard gangs?) littered all over the place that would love an opportunity to fight.


and Asians always fight in crowds lol.



besides, we know kung fu
Maybe the Vietnamese but I doubt many people were scared of a group of Chinese guys, they are generally too nice.
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Post by Mitra » 13 Jun 2009, 16:31

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Post by Evilelmo » 13 Jun 2009, 21:07

Yeah but it's hard to differentiate between us.

I've been mistaken for all sorts, Korean, Singaporian, Malaysian chinese, Japanese, Hong Kong'anese?, Vietnamese hell, I've even get asked if I'm a halfy (Narou was one lol).


Never Mainlander though phew...

I'm not a big fan of their styling.
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Post by Mews » 14 Jun 2009, 00:06

Remember that people are idiots. You're clearly not any of those ethnics just going by facial features.

Someone once thought I was English, from my "accent". I have British genes, but not the accent.
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