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What Americans Don’t Get About China with Kaiser Kuo

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Hong Kong People Feel Like They're Punching Up

I used to go there oftend. I'd playd this little game where i speak really fluent baging accented mandarin. And they'd treat me, i really brusquely, with, you know, a border line contempt. But then pull out the american passport and slap down there and switch immediately into accent free english,. They get all fuck and obsequious. You're treated as a social inferior. We only see part of it. If we see it in black and white, where we're really missing it? No, i don't think so. R not aware of the dynamic. The in hong kong kind of boils down to that is that

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