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China is a civilisation masquerading as a nation.
by CMCDragonkai 4y ago
China is a civilisation masquerading as a nation.
- est 4y agoChina had a pre-mature political system established 2k years ago.
- killjoywashere 4y agoI had no idea how sprawling Chinese diaspora was until I was in Ecuador and a sailor on the boat with me took me to a Chinese restaurant. In Ecuador. Of course there would be a Chinese restaurant in Ecuador, but of course there's also a sailor on my US-flagged ship who's ethnically Chinese and speaks Mandarin. And so we ordered Chinese in Chinese, in a Spanish-speaking country. In 1999.
- et-al 4y agoSpeaking of Chinese food in South America, there's also the delicious chifa cuisine folks should try to sample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chifa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chifa
- bitxbitxbitcoin 4y agoPeru has the largest Asian population out of any South American country!
- meowtimemania 4y agoThe dominican republic is covered in "Pica Pollo" restaurants and they are often run by chinese people. The main food at pica pollo is fried chicken and sometimes they also serve dominican beans and rice. The only asian dish is fried rice called "cho fan" in spanish. It wasn't until years later that I learned cho fan is just "chǎofàn" spoken with a spanish accent. I saw lots of chinese people at Pica Pollos across the country, but never saw them outside the restaurants and don't know much about where they live or what life is like for them in the DR. I'm not sure if each pica pollo is run by a chinese family that lives on site at the restaurant.
- jacquesm 4y agoAmsterdam, Vancouver and lots of other big cities have a large enough Chinese population that there can be whole districts that are mostly Chinese. To the point where the street signs are in Chinese.
- kridsdale1 4y agoI always like to reference the moment I saw on tv in Vancouver interviewing an old lady who was so immersed in her enclave she referred to white people as foreigners.