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yes, keep it there. it's not hurting anyone! I did make a thread related to learning Chinese, the basics of it, but it died quickly.

I have chemically straightened hair!!! :(

bahahaha wo ye xiang chao ni de da an! wo hua xue xue de hao lan ah~~~~ hua xue is evil

bad figures - as in too dumpy or too thin? a lot of chiense girls are really short and thin - don't have much of a figure.

EXACTEMENT SOMEONE ACTUALLY LISTEN TO HIM

don't you think their accounts would be voiced as to favour their cause? they want to stay in whichever country they have 'fled' to so obviously they say what the govt and people of that country want to hear. wen dear, are you going to PM me or not. I'm getting lonely waiting for it :p

what's the chick: guy ratio in act stds noneother? cos I got told that at macq it's like 0:heaps and heaps and heaps :s

haha Japan is a different context altogether.

By 'all accounts' you mean by 'all accounts that NTB, who has never been to China and is quite obviously biased against the CCP has come into contact with and intepreted from his european perspective' It's not total lies. It's biased toward the CCP, but not complete lies. Would you like me to...

yes because you have objectivity however if this supposed 'objectivity' is tainted by your Eurocentric values and context then your judgment will be ultimately flawed. Germaine Greer? *snort

*sigh are you refering to Tiananmen again? Look I'm saying it was right, only that it was necessary to maintaining civil stability, which IS VITAL FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Would you have prefered tens of thousands of others to have died suffering from the economic repercussions of a...

You don't actually know what it's really like there then. I wouldn't trust the judgement of a commentator on Australian political policy if he had never been to Australia, only read about it in articles/books written entirely from, say a Eastern viewpoint.

he's not, he's canto. and you misunderstood him.

no. China is not socialist no matter what its government claims. It's going through the prelim stages of capitalism. No dear, that gives you a European view on the situation. did you read mine or frigid's last posts at all?

I know. Once I slept 2 hrs one night then 0 hrs the next and then went to sit three exams the next day. Not really fun.

exactement. how many of you have actually been to China, out of interest.

emptied. it won't let me rep you, but let me say here that I <3 you :p

I know NTB, that's the problem so many people have :rolleyes: say that they allow people to protest against the government. initially there will be some small muted protests which may escalate into big whopping ones, which may catalyse social upheaval. You have to remember that although the...

OH GOD YES I'd have to move out for uni anyway, it's not like I have a choice. Well I have a choice but the uni here is not the sort of thing that's going to help me get into my desired field so I'm moving out no matter what. But if I did stay at home I don't think they'd make me pay because...

Human life. and what sustains human life? food and water - and education, these are all important. and what sustains these necessities? THE ECONOMY. and what is china focusing on at the moment? THE ECONOMY and this is why things like social welfare and human rights aren't being given much...