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
Despite how much our media talks about China, most Americans don't really know all that much about it. What is China’s view of itself and its recent history? What is life like in the country for the average Chinese citizen? On the show this week Kaiser Kuo, host of the Sinica podcast, joins Adam to help answer these questions and more.
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