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Old 05-07-2008, 15:45 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Of course they do. You cannot be successful in China without speaking Mandarin.
ah, depends on where you live i guess. them shanghai girls never gave me the time of day because i didn't speak shanghainese (or was it because i wasn't sporting armani and rolex? ).
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Old 05-07-2008, 15:46 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Of course they do. You cannot be successful in China without speaking Mandarin.
No, I know many poeple can't speak Mandarin, but successful.
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As a modern man I may be critical of the Chinese Han supremacy concept.

But as a military man who likes orderliness, I cant fault your system.

But then, I live in a democracy where disorder seems to be the way of life!
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Old 05-07-2008, 16:17 PM   #19 (permalink)
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ah, depends on where you live i guess. them shanghai girls never gave me the time of day because i didn't speak shanghainese (or was it because i wasn't sporting armani and rolex? ).

So what was your secret?

No Rolex. No Mercedes.

You looked and acted like Jackie Chang?

He is a hit with Indian girls!!

Didn't have a ball?

should have spoken to Hu!

Don't feel bad. The commie Chinese is a good fellow living the way he can bet do.

Latch on to a Commie apparatchik!

and the world is yours!!
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Old 05-07-2008, 16:22 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Old 05-07-2008, 16:40 PM   #21 (permalink)
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ah, depends on where you live i guess. them shanghai girls never gave me the time of day because i didn't speak shanghainese (or was it because i wasn't sporting armani and rolex? ).
Did you use Axe body spray?
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Old 05-07-2008, 17:08 PM   #22 (permalink)
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As a modern man I may be critical of the Chinese Han supremacy concept.

But as a military man who likes orderliness, I cant fault your system.

But then, I live in a democracy where disorder seems to be the way of life!
Really, I think people should live orderly. This has nothing to do with culture, democracy, freedom.
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ah, depends on where you live i guess. them shanghai girls never gave me the time of day because i didn't speak shanghainese (or was it because i wasn't sporting armani and rolex? ).
astralis any decent chap in Shanghai wears Valentino and sports a Patak Phillipe...do please keep "au courant"
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Really, I think people should live orderly. This has nothing to do with culture, democracy, freedom.
I agree, but in a democratic - autocratic way as in Singapore!
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ah, depends on where you live i guess. them shanghai girls never gave me the time of day because i didn't speak shanghainese (or was it because i wasn't sporting armani and rolex? ).
astralis, are you Chinese-American?
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The Han dynasties did consider the Romans as equals.
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astralis, are you Chinese-American?

I thought he was. Am I mistaken?
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I thought he was. Am I mistaken?
I don't know... that's why I asked.
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IIRC, he is!
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Ironduke,

That was a very interesting information and does add to further insight into China.

There is no doubt that a great civilisation existed in China and it did contributed to the world in adequate measures.
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