Train Attendant Selection Process or Beauty Contest?

People always talk about the airline stewardesses being beautiful as well, but all of the ones I’ve seen are very average.

“1.65m and taller, 50kg”! That’s a tough combination to meet. My wife is 1.7m and 60kg (she’s Chinese) so she wouldn’t qualify?

they are not pretty, but to be honest not many are in China. The ones who try look slutty, too much makeup.
You need to get import some good looking girls from Japan or Korea.

I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of girls as the picture at the end of my post on the high speed rail link between Beijing and Tianjin over here shows.

http://bit.ly/NO5rm

By and large, most female-centered jobs in the world are beauty contests to some extent, because in most societies, a woman’s beauty is one of her highest virtues. China is an extremely aesthetic culture with a long history of beauty worship and a large population with a large amount of beautiful girls so of course a hostessing job is going to have physical requirements. And let’s face it, who doesn’t like pretty stewardesses?

“high personal character”???????????
How the fuck can you line up hundreds of “beautiful girls” and then claim you are interested in high personal character?
Gimmie a fucking break China, you aren’t fooling anyone.

No, actually, that’s not the origin or meaning of the word laowai at all. In Chinese, just because you see 2 characters together does not mean you take (one) meaning of the first character and put it together with (one) meaning of the second character. Idiot. That’s like saying stopwatch means stop looking. Idiot. In Chinese laowai and waiguoren are interchangeable save for the former being less formal.

Here’s what you don’t understand: in America, or whatever Western shithole you come frome, calling someone “foreigner” may be considered disrespectful. Which is where you get the idea that laowai must be disrespectful. Well guess what, to the Chinese, “foreigner” is not disrespectful at all. If you could look past your biases, you could see that for yourself in China.

So again, no it is nothing like chink. What you, and many many visitors to China who are ignorantly paranoid about “laowai”, have done is project Western (and your own) disrespect of foreigners on to others.

P.S. I liked how you forced random tiny Chinese phrases into your post to try to look like an expert on the subject. Also digging the traditional characters, boy you’re really sticking it to the CCP, bro.

Dear Faggot,

Thank you so much for such a cogent and inspiring response. Unfortunately, you’re overlooking the fact that the word laowai can go both ways depending on the context. It either is a term of respect or neutrality a way of labeling an outsider or it is the second usage of the word. The one which I propose after an extensive stint in country hearing all of the different ways those dear mainlanders refer to us outsiders. I propose that it indeed does in certain conditions present itself as a swear word or derogatory cut down. For you to be completely opposed to this thought is actually quite funny. I as a westerner do not feel that I am bringing my own preconceptions about foreigners or the word foreigner from my language into the mix. This being clearly evident from the rampant racism and prejudice that exists within China. Why would you think that it is I that turn this word into something that it is not just by being from such a hateful, intolerant group of people as Westerners? Shame on you. You really give them more credit than they deserve. If you really knew the true meaning of 老外 you wouldn’t dare to laugh along. Perhaps you’re the kind of self-loathing westerner whom calls himself a 洋鬼子? Or perhaps I’m using too much 繁體字for you? That would be so pretentious of me now wouldn’t it? Especially since here in beautiful Taiwan we chose not to use retard字.

Also, the example of stopwatch being turned into don’t look does not apply since English words do not in any way follow the structure of Chinese words. How many two to four letter words can you guys think of in Chinese that actually are abbreviations or shorter versions for a much more expansive object?

Return to the fold, traitor.

the issue with laowai is commonly a hot topic for foreigners. what is often overlooked is the communication factor which goes beyond the definition of a word.

Laowai is often shouted by chinese to other chinese to make each other known of the presence of a foreigner. What is being communicated is not exactly intended for the foreigner, like a racial slur would be(which laowai isn’t.)

But foreigners pick up on it and the meaning that is communicated to foreigners is negative.

Chinese at large are mostly insensitive to the impact shouting laowai has on other listeners and here lies the problem with the word.

people could argue that I am trying to say that chinese people should be “Politically Correct” but Im not. Communication requires an understanding of the impact of what you say just as much as understanding the actual meaning of what you say.

Rather than being insulted by the word, I realize it just makes the speaker look ignorant.

I can’t get angry at ignorance.

Ok so we got HOOTERS on a high speed rail, should I expect chicken wings and a cheeseburger w curly fries the next time I take CRH bullet trains to Shanghai?

So far all I see are overpriced bowls of raman noodles.

There is a Chinese say: China lacks most things, but never people (中国什么都缺，唯独不缺人)

Height: 165 cm
Weight: 50 kg
BMI: 18.4
If your BMI is < 18.5 = Underweight

Even top designers are requiring their supermodels not to be under the healthy BMI. These are train attendants, not models. This is fuked up.

nice – i woud look to see the beauties on my next trip. easier on eyes.