Guangdong, China. What happens here? Would you live here?

A lot of trade a lot of manufacturing, like leather products. Its okay

rightfully Viet clay tbqh

>>213832921
True

>>213832884 (OP)
Most of old Chinese immigrants are from there. It has become a richest province.

I wouldn't want to live anywhere with both high heat and high humidity

>>213832884 (OP)
>"Chinese Catalonia doesn't exist, it can't hurt you"
>Chinese Catalonia:

innit funny how PRC and ROC both speak the same language out of dozens of chinese dialects

My great grandmother was born there. She managed to escape to Hong Kong, then the UK a few weeks before the Japanese arrived.

It's been 3 generations and I still get called squinty heh

>>213833602
Can you speak fluent Mandarin? What's life like for you as a Chinese Australian?

>>213833565
Because they are both legacies of Qing Imperialism in different ways, their legitimacy derives from being the inheritor of an imperial infrastructure designed to oppress minorities with centralization

>>213833955
He’s white with partial ancestry I think

>>213833132
They do live there though

>>213832917
What kind of leather products?

>>213833565
kmt is no coincidence

>>213835803
Should've gone with Hokkien. isn't that what they speak in Malaysia and Singapore too

>>213832884 (OP)
i hate jannies

>>213832884 (OP)
knew lots of brainiac engineers from there
shenzhen seems fun and hong kong is right there
kind of wish id moved there and integrated with the chinese but its too late for that now

>>213835849
Do you not understand?
No choice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_%28Taiwan%29

>>213835991
>brainiac engineers
Just smart or really really smart? For example?

>>213836038
really really smart like lots of papers from their phd then straight to an american national lab then professorship in china

>>213835693
They manufacture a lot of those handbags or wallet or bags from luxury brands, many tanners go visit workshops in Guangzhou, you can see knockoffs on the street and they have their own brands too. Leather goods are one of their strong suits but I think they manufacture a lot of clothes too.

Also circled cities have nice raw seafood if you dare eat. Whenever I visit relatives there it’ll always be seafood. I’m kind of glad the young people still speak their language there, makes me ashamed for not speaking it well despite going for language lessons.

>>213836287
>raw seafood
like sashimi or like those creepy videos of fish being eaten alive

>>213836350
Like sashimi, raw scallops, prawns, etc.

>>213836371
what's the chance that I get food poisoning?

>>213836252
That's interesting. Do they also do the PhD, lab, professorship route in Canada? I've heard Canada has tons of Chinese immigrants as well.

>>213836287
Pretty interesting, thanks for your answer. If you don't mind asking, how did you end up in SIngapore?

In Peru we love seafood. Might be a good thing to travel and try some Chinese seafood too.

>>213836390
phd and postdoc of course but getting a professorship here is like winning the lottery unless you're a gay disabled indigenous woman so they just move to another country or back to china (don't blame them desu)

>>213836389
Probably low, they always put a spicy citrus dressing on the seafood for flavor and to kill bacteria, something along that explanation. I haven’t gotten food poisoning yet.

>>213836473
sounds peruvian aka delicious
makes me want to go to china even more
really wish id abandoned my family and moved there for school, oh well guess ill be white forever

Lately?

Mosquito plague carrying an African virus, but just of yesterday flooding again.

This year massive regular massive rainfalls that floods all the roads is what is happening.

>>213836435
https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/213314901/#q213316744

>>213836861
Nice. I assume you can speak English, Mandarin and Cantonese? How fluent are you in those?

>>213836904
The cities I circled speak Teochew, more related to Hokkien, rather than Cantonese.
I’ve spoken English since birth, parents didn’t teach me Teochew since it wasn’t beneficial. I learned Mandarin in School. I can keep a conversation in both, I have difficulty to read/write Chinese. I can only understand Teochew and answer simple conversation/questions.

>>213837070
Do you want to learn any other languages or you'd rather build your Mandarin and Teochew? What are your thoughts on Cantonese?

>>213833565
>innit funny how PRC and ROC both speak the same language out of dozens of chinese dialects

It wasn't by accident. The revolutionaries who overthrew imperial rule in 1911 got together and chose how the new Chinese state would function, and one of their choices was making mandarin the national language. This was a hotly debated subject; for instance Guangdong niggas wanted Cantonese because it's more in line with medieval and ancient Chinese/wasn't a bunch of Manchu loan words, while the north preferred mandarin because it was already being taught and spoken by all the Imperial government officials/soldiers so it would be way easier to disseminate. Both the PRC and the ROC view themselves as the successors/progenitors of the 1911 revolutionaries, so they both have mandarin as their national language, along with many other ironic similarities between the two parties/states.

>>213835849
>Should've gone with Hokkien. isn't that what they speak in Malaysia and Singapore too

That wasn't even in discussion; the creators of the modern Taiwanese state is the KMT, not the Hokkien or Hakkas who were there since the Japanese era, which predated the 1911 revolution. You might as well ask why an Austronesian ooga booga abbo language wasn't chosen as the Taiwanese national language lmao.

>>213838359
What do you think of Mandarin Chinese?

>>213837861
I want to learn European Spanish since I have an uncle who migrated and married in Spain, I heard it’s easy for English speakers, and it opens up opportunity in many countries. I’m comfortable with my Mandarin capability so far, I’ll practice Teochew speaking and Chinese reading whenever I visit China. Realistically for opportunities here, Malay and Bahasa Indonesia is useful too.

Cantonese is okay and iconic in chinese movies, but I prefer how languages like Shanghainese sound.

What languages do you speak? Do you intend on learning more?

>>213839662
European Spanish sounds too fast, the only Spanish I can personally understand is Mexican variant.

>>213839662
I can speak English and Spanish, I'm learning Chinese. 我会说一点儿汉语. I would like to become fluent in the language.

I'm learning Portuguese. I know some French too.

Learn Spanish. It will serve you well.

>>213839852
European Spanish is cool, but it might sound weird or funny to the untrained ear. You just have to get used to it.

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>>213833514
kek

>>213842424
It is because it's coastal and rich due to trade?

I'm going to Hong kong and Shenzhen (and onto Jianxi) in December so I will report back to my /int/ brothers

>>213842764
Business, family or tourism?

>>213842804
Visiting wife's family in Jianx.

>>213842639
idk about that, but the shape of the province itself looks kinda similar

>>213842999
That's very nice, how did you meet her? Any kids or not yet?

>>213843045
Dating app and no kids yet

>>213833565
They call it Pu Tong Hua which literally means "common language" because that was the language established by the later imperial dynasties as the lingua franca for the empire

>>213835803
Taiwan should speak Filipino as its national language, in solidarity with the aboriginal Taiwanese

>>213843127
Cool, I wish you well.

>>213843948
Thank you friend. Why is a Peruvian so interested in Guangdong?

>>213844095
I met a girl from Guangdong here. I want to learn more about Guangdong so I can speak about it with her.

>>213843599
>>213843630
How do you feel about learning and speaking Spanish in the Phillipines?

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>>213844312
What was a girl from Guangdong doing in Peru?
Is she trad?

>>213843008
They also have a local language/dialect and it's the birthplace of Chinese republicanism. Shockingly similar comparison

>>213846357
Nah, she's a waitress at a Chinese restaurant. I don't know if she's trad or not, but she seems well versed in modern culture. She's taking Spanish classes as well.

>>213846520
Does America have a Guangdong/Catalonia equivalent?

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>>213847737
Of course not that's silly. No settler new world nation would have something like that. Quebec is the closest but that's just because they are a different settler ethnicity than the rest of the country

>>213848722
Quebec tried to secede twice, right? Do you think it will succeed the third time?

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