Comments on: American Basketball Player Throws Money To Students

By: Fike2308

Fike2308 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:06:13 +0000

“Try to understand where the chinese people are coming from. When you’re a developing country that’s inferior in so many ways you have to be able to be proud of as many things as you can be.”

I think that’s a great point.

By: Fike2308

Fike2308 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:04:45 +0000

…and, as a result, they sounds like monkeys to the rest of the world.

By: Fike2308

Fike2308 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:02:48 +0000

He could throw smaller denominations.

By: Fike2308

Fike2308 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:01:11 +0000

@ Overseas Chinese….YES, you can throw bananas at black people…and GET YOUR ASS KICKED as a result.

Seriously, I DARE YOU to go to any city in America with a high black population and toss some bananas at them.

It’s your funeral.

By: Fike2308

Fike2308 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:56:13 +0000

Hey, I throw money out of bus windows everytime I’m in Harlem ;)

By: Fike2308

Fike2308 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:55:08 +0000

! Es la verdad !

By: Fike2308

Fike2308 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:54:06 +0000

@ Stuey:

(b) ’sinocentrism’: they won’t consider how Americans view this because they’re only interested in [and only understand] their own country

I think that’s a great point….a lot of Chinese people seem to assume that the rest of the world thinks like they do…..blows my mind that they would assume such.

I’m AMERICAN and I feel no shame about this minor incident at all….in fact, I feel like the REACTIONS to the incident are much more fascinating (and revealing) than the actual incident itself.

By: Fike2308

Fike2308 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:50:05 +0000

Seriously, how can Chinese ppl be self-righteous towards money?

They love to barter and rip-off “foolish” foreigners who believe that vendors are honest.

By: Fike2308

Fike2308 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:47:48 +0000

It’s ironic to me (I’m a white guy) how Chinese people (from my experience) ALWAYS speak badly about blacks and use the “N” word BUT at the same time WORSHIP Kobe Bryant…..kind of blows my mind!

Also, who wouldn’t LOVE to take a handful of the racist Chinese people who think the “N-word” is funny and drop them off in COMPTON or ATLANTA? I would pay money to see that.

By: Fike2308

Fike2308 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:43:39 +0000

You know, I’m thinking about this story and it reminds me of something that happened to me in Beijing once.

I was hanging out with 2 Chinese girls (sounds bad, right?) outside of the Silk Market and drinking a coke.

2 little kids approached me and begged me for a sip of my coke…..they gulped it down in like 2 seconds.

So, since they seemed genuinely poor (I hear that a lot of the “beggars” in China aren’t actually beggars…has anyone else heard this?) and hungry and I took them to a street vendor and bought them each 2 bottles of water and an icecream….I’m sure I spent less than 20 RMB.

The 2 Chinese girls I was with scolded me for my actions and I wondered why for a long time because:

(1) Charity is a good thing…..right?

(2) 20 RMB is like $3 USD which I can totally afford, it’s not like I was buying them a car or anything.

I told this story to some of my friends here and they told me that my actions caused the two Chinese girls to LOSE FACE because here I am a foreigner helping out poor Chinese people while they stood around and did nothing.

Charity does NOT exist in China the way it does in America so I wonder if foreigners who display anything that resembles UNSELFISH, ALTRUISTIC behavior makes them feel bad about themselves.

Does that make sense to anyone else?