Learning about Chinese . . .

Just following up on The Nezzer's previous thing about racism in Japan. With that in mind, I felt it important to elaborate on our knowledge of the far east just a little more. Now there are two things that bug the heck out of me, a Chinese-Canadian guy who practices martial arts. The first is people who don't realise there are lion dances and dragon dances (and that the lions are not dragons). This post has nothing to do with that, though; this one's about the other thing.

The other thing that bugs me is when people have issues understanding there are in fact many different dialects of Chinese with two major ones: Cantonese and Mandarin.

Luckily, Russell Peters, and Indo-Canadian stand-up comic, has come to show us the light (as well as an instance of racism he witnessed in China himself) . . . that said, two more things. One, if you don't like sporadic use of bad words you shouldn't watch; two, it's absolutely okay to laugh at his jokes - they're actually more true than you might think:

Next week: the explanation of "be a man!". Maybe.

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