Asia Is Surreal

[jewbird]

It's surreal because you're in a bar and drunk and it's late at night when making those observations.

[rob]

sam said:

It's surreal because you're in a bar and drunk and it's late at night when making those observations.

I love you man

[kastila]

rob said:

Here’s your basic cross-section of pinoy balikbayan society:

- Newly minted US citizens or greencard holding maids, retail sales ppl, post office employees and laborers in N. America who go back to the pines to be feted as kings/queens.

And what about the retired Filipino professionals: doctors, lawyers, university professors, Navy officers etc. who are buying up prime island beachfront and building luxurious estates? You conveniently leave them out... Nothing but maids, laborers, etc., huh? Right...

- Bottle cap kings (Chinoy business owners) from MNL who can't start a legitimate business in the US .... and eventually return to their Alabang/Greenbelt estates to preserve face and keep their corrupt cash cow monopolies and luxurious lifestyles intact

- The entertainment "stars" who live as paupers in the suburbs of SF and Seattle ….. who having made no dent in the US entertainment industry beyond an appearance with a c-list celebrity (e.g., Hasselhoff, Kenny Loggins), return triumphantly to the pines having “made it big in the US” and name-drop like there’s no tomorrow

O.K., I'll concede this one... In this case, you seem to know what you are talking about. Hmm.

- Mestizo/spaniards..... who live off the large estates and plantations granted to their forefathers 300 years ago…

Inaccurate on multiple levels...

…they lack complete business sense, but at least have the brains to know their limitations and as such, stay close to the hacienda, revel in the moreno stares/adulation…. and continually inbreed so their children may enjoy the same lifestyle.

Getting your little stereotype digs in again, huh? You know, someone was gonna have to call you on this. Just a reminder, this was supposed to be about balikbayan society.

Thankfully there are exceptions….. apparently

LOL, you construct a list of nonsense stereotypes and then graciously concede that exceptions exist. I love it. At least, I had a good laugh, which is what I assume you were really aiming for.

[Ragnar]

^Hey! we saw that in Antwerp remember? I still have that video on my phone and you're also in it ;D.

[Ave`]

yongfook said:

jimmy said:

I have said this to more than one Eurasian on occasion and now is the time to reveal to to you all.

Asia Is Surreal.

I.e. it isnt real.

A world where 18 year old expat kids dance with cambodian hookers, a world where 80 year old white men actually think theyre halfway decent looking and acting (with their 18 year old brides), a world where Eurasians actually think by virtue of their heritage they actually have something over the native populace (but in reality, they truly are no better or worse than anyone else).

Well, thats surreal.

That is Asia.

Discuss.

That sounds like South East Asia.

I'm in East Asia and it's not really like that. Sometimes I visit South East Asia to mix with the riff raff for a bit, but I soon return to the bubble of safety and civilisation that is East Asia.

sorry, maybe not in tokyo but in girls still throw themselves at losers gaijin in this part of Japan.

Its surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreal