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California, Chinas elite playground?

V4 said:
it's also popular cuz the characters that says buick in Chinese means 'good fortune' over there...
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No, they don't. They're essentially just a representation of the sound of "Buick" in English. In fact, since "Buick" is a surname, there is no way to translate it--you just represent the sound.

That being said, companies selling in China do make a great effort to choose a good name in Chinese that either translates the name of their product or imitates the sound in English. It makes business sense. Just like, in reverse, "Nova" was a bad name for a car in Spanish-speaking markets.

Buick is popular in China for the same reason VW has been popular in China--they've been in the market for a long time. And of course thirty years ago it was a symbol of the wealthy American nation.
 
kongjie said:
No, they don't. They're essentially just a representation of the sound of "Buick" in English. In fact, since "Buick" is a surname, there is no way to translate it--you just represent the sound.

That being said, companies selling in China do make a great effort to choose a good name in Chinese that either translates the name of their product or imitates the sound in English. It makes business sense. Just like, in reverse, "Nova" was a bad name for a car in Spanish-speaking markets.

Buick is popular in China for the same reason VW has been popular in China--they've been in the market for a long time. And of course thirty years ago it was a symbol of the wealthy American nation.
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maybe you're right....i was told this by a white guy so who knows..:dunno

besides, it's americas turn to sell china a junk product with the buick and gm products...:laughing
 
These mainland Chinese people buying up all our property cash money is a serious fucking problem. its driven prices up sky high, allowed rents to become out of control. The rich Googlers and Facebookers are not even a tip of the iceberg compared to these uncouth fucking animals from China. We seriously need a law in America banning non permanent residents from buying a home or owning a business.

Protect your own god damn people America! Seriously what the fuck we're going to allow rich assholes from China to take over and overbid our real estate market while those of us who work and live in the area even while making top salaries can barely afford apartment rent let alone an average priced home? Yea I get it I can move out of CA but I just freaking moved back from Vegas! This shit ain't funny ya'll.
 
Not sure how taking advantage of an open opportunity makes one an "uncouth fucking animal", unless of course they're breaking laws to do so.

And at least the Chinese usually keep their kids in line, and focused on education........unlike other ethnicities I could mention.
 
954Rider said:
These mainland Chinese people buying up all our property cash money is a serious fucking problem. its driven prices up sky high, allowed rents to become out of control. The rich Googlers and Facebookers are not even a tip of the iceberg compared to these uncouth fucking animals from China. We seriously need a law in America banning non permanent residents from buying a home or owning a business.

Protect your own god damn people America! Seriously what the fuck we're going to allow rich assholes from China to take over and overbid our real estate market while those of us who work and live in the area even while making top salaries can barely afford apartment rent let alone an average priced home? Yea I get it I can move out of CA but I just freaking moved back from Vegas! This shit ain't funny ya'll.
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You can start by not buying all their shit, and thus making them rich. But then you'd cry about "hating capitalism" or something.
 
wazzuFreddo said:
Patently false, there are a number of other countries that grant unconditional Jus soli

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Barbados
  • Belize
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Costa Rica
  • Dominica
  • Ecuador
  • El Salvador
  • Fiji
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Guyana
  • Honduras
  • Jamaica
  • Lesotho
  • Mexico
  • Moldova
  • Nicaragua
  • Pakistan
  • Panama
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Tanzania
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tuvalu
  • United States
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela
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Nice list. With the exception of Canada and US, who the fuck would want to emigrate in any of those countries? :laughing
 
954Rider said:
...these uncouth fucking animals from China.
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Wow.

Reli said:
All those are either Latin American or other less-developed countries. Not one 1st world nation except for the US and Canada
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RRR70 said:
Nice list. With the exception of Canada and US, who the fuck would want to emigrate in any of those countries? :laughing
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Exactly right. I don't think that other than those two there is much of any issue with immigration, legal or otherwise. At least not on the scale of the US and its hat.
 
RRR70 said:
Nice list. With the exception of Canada and US, who the fuck would want to emigrate in any of those countries? :laughing
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Anyone who lives somewhere else?
I'm guessing they all looked better than being on the wrong side of the iron curtain?
 
on the bright side, lotta white guys will have new brides...:laughing
 
I would have no issue living in Mexico. It is a great place that is misunderstood by most Americans. I also hear Brazil and Argentina are nice, but I haven't been to either yet.
 
So that's why there are lines of people eager to move there. :rofl
I wonder what reaction would be if US threaten our illegals the same way Mexico does theirs. :laughing
 
954Rider said:
These mainland Chinese people buying up all our property cash money is a serious fucking problem. its driven prices up sky high, allowed rents to become out of control. The rich Googlers and Facebookers are not even a tip of the iceberg compared to these uncouth fucking animals from China. We seriously need a law in America banning non permanent residents from buying a home or owning a business.

Protect your own god damn people America! Seriously what the fuck we're going to allow rich assholes from China to take over and overbid our real estate market while those of us who work and live in the area even while making top salaries can barely afford apartment rent let alone an average priced home? Yea I get it I can move out of CA but I just freaking moved back from Vegas! This shit ain't funny ya'll.
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HAHAHA, sucks doesn't it??? Substitute "Chinese" for "Bay Area natives" in there and you had basically the same situation in the Central Valley during the early years of the housing boom beginning around 1998. I remember so many mom and pop Bay Area "investors" with their big Bay Area salaries bidding/buying up properties all over the suburbs around Sacramento, and consequently pricing a lot of us locals out.
 
RRR70 said:
So that's why there are lines of people eager to move there. :rofl
I wonder what reaction would be if US threaten our illegals the same way Mexico does theirs. :laughing
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There are actually. There is a large influx from a handfull of Latin American countries because there are more opportunities in Mexico.

Mexico also has a sizable middle and upper class.

Like I said, it is a country miss understood by most in the US. I'm sure you'll bring up drug violence next, which I may preemptively point out that we have a large amount of as well. In fact, some in Europe view the US the same way we view Mexico due to all the gunplay.
 
wazzuFreddo said:
There are actually. There is a large influx from a handfull of Latin American countries because there are more opportunities in Mexico.

Mexico also has a sizable middle and upper class.

Like I said, it is a country miss understood by most in the US. I'm sure you'll bring up drug violence next, which I may preemptively point out that we have a large amount of as well. In fact, some in Europe view the US the same way we view Mexico due to all the gunplay.
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Well, you'd be wrong. War on drugs responsible for a lot of Mexico's drug violence issues. A lot, but not all of it. How Mexico threats their illegals?
 
RRR70 said:
Well, you'd be wrong. War on drugs responsible for a lot of Mexico's drug violence issues. A lot, but not all of it. How Mexico threats their illegals?
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Similar to here, people mostly live in the shadows and exploitation is common.
 
wazzuFreddo said:
There are actually. There is a large influx from a handfull of Latin American countries because there are more opportunities in Mexico.

Mexico also has a sizable middle and upper class.

Like I said, it is a country miss understood by most in the US. I'm sure you'll bring up drug violence next, which I may preemptively point out that we have a large amount of as well. In fact, some in Europe view the US the same way we view Mexico due to all the gunplay.
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Yeah, I don't think most people get this. Especially when you ponder the failed nations south of it. They make Mexico look like the wealthy country. People lump them all together, for various reasons, beginning with the Black Legend, and continuing with more than a century of Manifest Destiny and garden variety Anglo-American racism and sheer provincial ignorance.

As long as we got an Oaklamd, a Detroit, and countless other shitholes in our country, we are deluding ourselves about those other scary places. We have LESS of an excuse to allow what we allow considering our wealth, history of democratic governance, etc.

Mexico certainly has its own identity problems within the culture, as well documented by its own writers and thinkers, but we need to calm down in our misperceptions of the place and its people.

the single biggest problem is that we in the US are mostly, and continuously exposed to the poorest people coming out of the place. We base our perception on them, then allow the headlines to steer the rest of the narrative.
 
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