For a while I spoke conversational Cantonese; since I never learned to read it, it's long gone and forgotten.
But I remember several times being around Chinese people who would talk openly about how inferior and brutish black people were, presuming nobody else could understand them.
Where I live now I am likely the only westerner that a lo…
For a while I spoke conversational Cantonese; since I never learned to read it, it's long gone and forgotten.
But I remember several times being around Chinese people who would talk openly about how inferior and brutish black people were, presuming nobody else could understand them.
Where I live now I am likely the only westerner that a lot of people have ever seen. They don't point, but they stare. Probably trying to figure out how to get me to give them money.
I was once in an out of the way place in Thailand at a time that Westerners were very rare there. It was the holiday where people float little boats with candles. I asked my wife to be why everyone was looking at me and smiling (not the land of smiles smile). Her reply was, "Because you are a giant." If you've never seen anyone who was 6'3" you would think them a giant.
Vietnam is going through what Japan did after WWII. Forbidden a military they had vastly more money and the standard of living soared. Including diet. A generation grew up with as much protein as they wanted and you’d see families with the sons a head taller than their parents.
You don’t see a lot of six foot tall teens here but in 1998 there were none.
For a while I spoke conversational Cantonese; since I never learned to read it, it's long gone and forgotten.
But I remember several times being around Chinese people who would talk openly about how inferior and brutish black people were, presuming nobody else could understand them.
Where I live now I am likely the only westerner that a lot of people have ever seen. They don't point, but they stare. Probably trying to figure out how to get me to give them money.
I was once in an out of the way place in Thailand at a time that Westerners were very rare there. It was the holiday where people float little boats with candles. I asked my wife to be why everyone was looking at me and smiling (not the land of smiles smile). Her reply was, "Because you are a giant." If you've never seen anyone who was 6'3" you would think them a giant.
Well I am in no danger of that. I peaked at under 5’10” and after a bad accident and age shrinkage I think I’m 5’8” now.
Age shrank me to 6'2" which still leaves me in the bump my head on everything realm.
Vietnam is going through what Japan did after WWII. Forbidden a military they had vastly more money and the standard of living soared. Including diet. A generation grew up with as much protein as they wanted and you’d see families with the sons a head taller than their parents.
You don’t see a lot of six foot tall teens here but in 1998 there were none.