Chat in English (英語で雑談) Part 126

What do you think will happen if China, which has amazingly large population, become one of the most developed countries? and overwhelm Japan and some other industrized countries in its wealth ?
Chinese folks may get angry but I think the situation of the world will deteriorate.

>>952

How could China becoming wealthier hurt Japan and why would the Chinese
get angry?

Is it because there wouldn't be as much cheap labor? Businesses would
just take their factories to another poor country if that is the case.

>>953
Well, surely, if Japanese companies want to get cheap labor force, they just move to
the other poor asian countries.
But, what I'm afraid is the world resorces or something like this, because the population of China
is as many as almost 1.4 billion.
Once one's level of life becomee high and he lives affluent life, it's hard or even painful to change its way of life.
Beside it − though this can be applied to many Japanese − it's said that they are lack of the sense of morale.
I know this way of thinking is self-centred, but I cannot help worring about it.

>>953
>why would the Chinese get angry?

Maybe my way of writing was wrong and brought you confusion.
To be exact,
maybe Chinese people get angry to hear it, but I think the situation of the world will be
deteriorate if China become a industrialized country and most people become rich.

>>951
a man in the AA is wearing a panty.

What a hard to understand AA that is.

You can't?
I understood what that AA described and the intention of >>927
at a first glance.

>>958
Really? I couldn't even understand what that object is.

This topic may be unpleasantly racist, but let me talk about Obama and his race because this might be a rare place I can discuss this openly in English.

Why do they think he is black? Let's say, if the law of dominance was the opposite and a half-black half-white person looked like a white,
would they still consider he was black enough?
Or if whites were the minority and the black people were ruling the country,
would he be regarded as the first *white* President?

I mean, aren't they considering he is African American not because his father is from Africa, but because he looks so?
Certainly, if his parents were both white, then he wouldn't be considered African American,
but he looked white for some reason even though he is half-black, would they still be exited by the first African American President the same way?

Sorry if I sounded racist. But as I said, I'd like to know what English speaking people think of this, which is impossible in a normal situation...

１０数億の民が先進諸国並みの生活水準に達した時のことを彼は言っているんだと
思うよ。そうなると環境問題（ＣＯ２によろ地球温暖化）など懸念されている問題が
深刻化するから中国の人たちには申し訳ないげど裕福になってほしくないと
彼は考えているんじゃないかな？

>>961
Rest assured. Before that happens, Americans will get annoyed.
If history is a lesson, they will bomb or nuke Beijing on whatever weak pretext they come up with.

>>861
Yes.

But, I realized that this idea is likely to be wrong because it sounds quite celf-centred.
I'll change my mind.

>>962
History also says that America has never attacked a countries which has
nuclear bombs.

>>964
Because having some nukes isn't annoying enough or benefits them.
What the point of attacking a country just because it got a nuke?

>>960

I don't mean to be rude, but it isn't necessary here to speak with such
political correctness. The only people who would get mad at your question
are young, arrogant black people who have grown up on stories of black
oppression and discrimination and have an agenda to proactively try to
gain retribution for the years of hardships that not them personally, but
their ancestors and grandparents endured.

In my opinion, Obama definitely isn't Caucasian. His skin color is black, however,
he was raised in a white household. He is wise, intelligent, charismatic, ambitious,
extremely positive... and because of that people say he is a "white" politician
at heart. That is total bullshit if you ask me. The man is black. Black people
can't be generalized as being bitter, aggressive, and anti-intellectual.

>>951
The SATs are overrated. Admissions at a number of small liberal arts
colleges have become SAT-optional.
You can get into a decent school with a good GPA and mediocre SATs, but if
you have a mediocre GPA and great SATs, it actually looks worse for you--
you're capable of the work, but not applying yourself.

>>960
Technically, Barack Obama is biracial. But he is considered black mostly because
he looks African-American, and because his lifestyle is that of a (upwardly mobile)
black man: his wife is African-American, he attends an Africa-American church,
he lives in a predominately black neighborhood in Chicago.
There are some in this country that have questioned his authenticity as a black man
because his father was a Kenyan national and he is not descended from the African slaves
brought to America. But that is not a common viewpoint.
What matters more than his race is his ability to govern.
I have high hopes for him.

>>965
I just meant Beijin aren't likely to be attacked by America because of its possession of nuclear bombs.
and I didn't try to say other than that.

I must be sleeping.

->Beijin isn't
->more than

>>956
Well even better then lol.
>>967
Eh, it's debatable. There's so many different schools with different criteria for admission
that you can't tell what's important and what's not. Doing well on all factors is probably the best
way to get in. That being said, I have a friend who dropped out of high school with terrible grades
and got his GED instead. His ACT scores and SAT Subject Test scores were what got him into a top
engineering/technical school. Of course liberal arts schools look at students more holistically then
then engineering schools.

Speaking of Obama, his neighborhood is really great. I have a bunch of friends who live in Hyde Park and
the neighborhood just has a great feel to it. The University of Chicago is there along with a lot of
rich history, especially regarding the height of jazz. Also, it hasn't been completely gentrified yet
so a lot of old architecture is still around.

>>970
I'd bet Hyde Park is nice. It's next to University of Chicago, isn't it?
I went to Chicago as a kid, and the only things I remember were the Chicago
Zoo and the bubblegum ice cream at Baskin-Robbins, a novelty at the time.
Seems like I missed a lot!

If someone has mixed up in his/her blood black blood, however slight, then that person is black.
The appearance with which s/he was born and the social background in which s/he
was raised are both irrelevant when it comes to deciding whether s/he is black.

>>972
Then Madonna is black ?

>>970

I want to go to the University of Chicago's graduate business school, but
it looks insanely competitive. It seems a third of the students admitted are
those abroad (mostly from Asia) who have passed the TOEFL. Damn, man.

Not only that, but I'm beginning to wonder just how old a lot of the
applicant are. Many of them seem to be (older) people who have already had considerable
experience as a working business professional and have multiple certifications.

I'd really have to work my ass off to even get considered.

>>972
Actually, some people with "black blood" are light enough to appear white.
If they live as white people, never telling the truth concerning their actual race,
it's said that they're "passing" (as in "passing for white").

(Incidentally, saying someone has "black blood"...
I'm pretty sure something like that is a major, major faux pas.)

I've heard that more than 90% of today's African Americans are actually biracial or multiracial
mainly due to slave masters' efforts to reproduce slaves instead of purchase in the past to
begin with. While I'm pretty sure this topic is extremely uncomfortable to White Americans,
it is quite understandable that African Americans seek and reinforce the importance of their African roots.

when I chatted with my American friend, he said ''neat'' to me.
I was surprised and wondered why he knew i was a neet.
but ''neat'' means ''very nice'' in American slang.

>>973
A black person is included in her pedigree?
If so, then she is black.
But it makes no difference to me whether she is black or white.
The same holds true for Obama.

>>975
I merely repeated an idea about race which is criticized
in Faulkner or someone else, like a parrot.

Not a single thought exists in my mind but is borrowed
(or plagiarized, to be exact) from someone or somewhere.

who touched my pee pee! dont touch my pee pee!

>>977
Oh, funny story.

neet is great

This is slightly off topic by now, but I thought I would say it anyway... I'm an American girl,
and my height is about 177cm. That's about five feet and eleven inches.

It's rare for a girl to be as tall as I am, even in America.

>>982
Where were you coming from?

>>983
My gut tells me >>982 is a troll.

Someone just talked about her hight. How is that a troll? Do you even know what it means?

Did you mean by that >>982 =>>984, then?

>>985
Probably not....

>>985
wat? I don't think you understand what "my gut tells me >>982 is a troll" means.
Something tells me you don't have a good command of English.

>>983 I was referring to >>644, somewhere around there.

>>984 + >>985 Unfortunately, I'm telling the truth. I know women who are even taller than I am,
because I come from a family of really tall people. I've gotten used to being treated like a
guy by my normal friends.

>>989
What are you doing fucking shit? And how disgust you are something like a bitch!

>>990
Excuse me? Wtf are you talking about?

>>991
About >>989. In engrish. Obviously. Get some common sense.

>>646 said average height is around 163cm (165-1inch=163 right?)
Is that true? I thought American women were much taller thatn that.

Why is that some moron started freaking out here?

>>994
If he didn't freak out for no apparent reason, he wouldn't be a moron.
More you know!

I see some oxymoron there but somehow it made sense.

>>996
You could say, "Why did they freak out like morons in here?"
Education!

>>995
Okay then are you trying to be another sparky, right?
If so probably you're just unfitting here .

Looks like there's just one moron in here though. And that one hasn't realized it or calmed down yet...

1000

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