>want to learn mandarin
>remember that if I did I would be some awkward white guy in an extremely homogenous country with a culture unbelievably alien to my own
>put it off for another day

you won't be the first white guy that speaks mandarin, at this point there's probably a bunch of them in shanghai already

I've even seen blacks speak mandarin.

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Yeah, I'm sure the ratio is only 1:10,000.

i'm already the only white man in a sea of niggers, i would give a arm and a leg if i was surrounded by chinks instead