Monday, March 17, 2014

The Four Quadrants of Height and Weight


Obviously this is some extreme generalizing but, overall, this is how the four corners of China seem to be height and weightwise, according to my travels and some conversations with friends and their observations. The north eastern seem paler and really really tall and elegantly thin. Where I lived down south east, people are generally shorter than me, much more tan and incredibly wiry. On the south west, I felt pretty comfortable, with people being just a the shorter than me, and generally of the same weight and size. I have yet to go north east to Xingjiang....but as a lot of people are of a mixed race, some northern, some middle eastern and some Chinese....my assumptions about height and weight are these.

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Colors

This was a true story. I was later explained that the term huáng rén 黄(yellow person) is in no way insulting and is often used in chinese culture. Coming from politically correct Canada...it took time getting used to this.