Haoqide Posted September 16, 2005 at 11:41 PM Report Share Posted September 16, 2005 at 11:41 PM Hi, everybody! I'm wanting to design a t-shirt kind of as a joke for all those guys that prefer Chinese women to American women...anyway, I have an idea of what I want it to say, but I don't know how on earth to say it the most casually...here are a couple of ideas I have. "Save yourself some trouble...Date a Chinese girl" "Looking for a Chinese girlfriend" Can you guys help me out with the wording? I'll need the characters and the pinyin translation with the tones so that I can use my Windows IME and Photoshop to make the image. Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Song You Shen Posted September 17, 2005 at 12:04 AM Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 at 12:04 AM haha, that's kinda funny. I'd buy one! ;) Although,I wouldn't use any phrase that degredates women, even if they are American (i.e. American women stink...). I did enjoy these those: "Save yourself some trouble...Date a Chinese girl" "Save an American woman...Date a Chinese girl" (i'm not sure what this is supposed to mean) I'm sure there are even catchier phrases you can find too. Youshen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferno Posted September 17, 2005 at 12:30 AM Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 at 12:30 AM use images have a photo of a fat american woman eating McDonalds, and then a picture of some slim Chinese model or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haoqide Posted September 17, 2005 at 01:03 AM Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 at 01:03 AM Hey, thanks. I certainly don't mean to degrade ANYONE by this design!!! I think "Save yourself some trouble...Date a Chinese girl" is probably the best one. SO, anyone got any ideas on how to say that? Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted September 17, 2005 at 01:09 AM Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 at 01:09 AM Hey, thanks. I certainly don't mean to degrade ANYONE by this design!!! American women stink. Date a Chinese girl today Good luck with not degrading anyone . . . Roddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haoqide Posted September 17, 2005 at 01:12 AM Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 at 01:12 AM Okay, it does sound a little bad, I'll admit. I'll just remove that from the original post. It's just that I just found out the other day my wife is cheating on me, so I'm a little bitter at the moment. I apologize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Song You Shen Posted September 17, 2005 at 02:01 AM Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 at 02:01 AM I always liked the quote that I made up, and I don't think it is degrading in any way... whenever my friends ask me why I am attracted to Chinese women, I say. "Once you go Asian, you can't go Caucasian." --- although, i don't know how well that translates into Chinse! haha Youshen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haoqide Posted September 17, 2005 at 02:31 AM Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 at 02:31 AM HAHAHA, that's a good one! Too bad the rhyme won't translate into Chinese well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted September 17, 2005 at 04:01 AM Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 at 04:01 AM You did not make up "Once you go Asian, you can't go Caucasian." I remember a 'friend' having it on a teeshirt in London twenty years ago. It probably originated during the Vietnam war or even earlier in the Korean War. And it was as racist then as it is now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiaomawang Posted September 17, 2005 at 05:50 AM Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 at 05:50 AM Into Chinese "Save yourself some trouble...Date a Chinese girl" 省麻烦 约会中国女孩儿 "Looking for a Chinese girlfriend" 想结识中国女孩儿 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geraldc Posted September 17, 2005 at 08:18 AM Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 at 08:18 AM Print and wear any of those T shirts, and to anyone who can read them you'll effectively have a large sign over your head saying either: 黐線鬼佬 or 鹹濕佬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmakid Posted September 17, 2005 at 10:09 AM Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 at 10:09 AM "Save yourself some trouble...Date a Chinese girl" To answer the question whether this sentence is condecending or not u need to take into consideration what the author meant by the quote. If he by that meant that "asian women are less hustle to live with because thay are more subversive", then I would definitly think that he should reconsider, both the text on the T-shirt aswell as his view on women. So my question to the author if this thread and the quote is, What did, and do you mean by this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haoqide Posted September 17, 2005 at 11:56 AM Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 at 11:56 AM You know, nevermind. I meant no condescension, no disrespect. Maybe this was just a bad idea. It's more of a commentary on American culture than anything else. Our culture is designed in a way to put pressure on women to constantly have the nicest, newest, greatest, latest, most extravagant of every product and service under the sun. And that pressure breeds attitudes of materialism and me-firstism,which is something I don't like and causes problems. SO I prefer the less Westernized cultures where this isn't as difficult as a problem. I dont mind having nice things, but when your entire lifestyle is spent procuring those things and working to keep them up, you're in bad shape. My thought behind the tshit are that Chinese cultue hasn't been damagaed to the point that American culture has in this regard. Males, females, in American culture, we're all constantly fed a streem of the same things, and it makes us too independent and unwilling to comprimise fo the good of the group or the family. It's those kind of values that I esteem in Asia people and that's what's behind the t-shirt. Lke I said, thogh, maby this was a bad ideal all together Roddy can we just kill this thread? Thanks.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted September 17, 2005 at 12:07 PM Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 at 12:07 PM Man, you were expecting everyone to read quite a lot into one very dumb-looking statement. Closing as requested. Roddy (An equal-opportunities dater, as it happens) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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