AND I RANT! CHINESE TRADITIONS PT 2

Where was I? Oh yeah thats right there's MORE chinese traditions/practices that annoys the living hell out of me. You can read part 1 here ry-spirit.deviantart.com/journ… . Alright here goes.



SAY HELLO TO YOUR THIRD UNCLE'S WIFE'S MOTHER'S BROTHER'S SON'S STEP SISTER'S CAT'S COUSIN'S FATHER'S OWNER'S DAUGHTER'S SECOND BROTHER: Thats me in the middle (Not really) reading a book with a lot of relatives looking at me with their creepy faces. The thing is that all of those uncles has different unique titles, like 2nd uncle, 3rd uncle, 4th uncle. Then it can get more complicated like 2nd uncle's son, 3rd uncle's daughter. Then it can get even more complicated when you have to remember the title for relatives like your uncle's son's wife's mother's brother! And trust me even a complicated link like that has a unique title in chinese, and I am supposed to remember the title... Oh by the way as a duty from the youngest person in the family, when you meet them for dinners you must address your complicated linked relatives by their titles as greetings, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM!!! But no the adults don't have to do that for other relatives (NOT FAIR)... FFFFFFFFF..... Sometimes I just wish the chinese family could learn from the westerners, by calling everyone by their names. Simple and clean!



FIGHT FOR THE BILL Its common for chinese people to get nervous when its time to pay for the bill in chinese restaurant, suddenly the whole table goes silent.. then someone will shout 'I will pay for dinner.' then another will go 'NO I WILL PAY FOR IT, DON'T ARGUE WITH ME' then across the table someone will go 'SHUT YOUR HOLE! YOU PAID LAST TIME, I AM PAYING THIS TIME OR I AM NEVER EAT WITH YOU AGAIN' and another will pull out a gun and go 'SUCK MY BALLS! THE BILL IS ON ME BECAUSE I AM THE OLDEST HERE!!'. Then eventually it becomes a race to the counter with everyone pulling out their wallet and placing money on the bill while pushing the other people out of the way...... Every single time we go out to dinner we have these fights I ain't joking. Sometimes someone will do the sneaky act of pretending to go to toilet and then secretly pay for the bill, I like those tricky people, it avoids embarrassment.. especially when you ain't eating at a chinese restaurant and the waiter and customers are like what the flying heck is going on here... GOOD JOB SNEAKY PEOPLE!



RARE ANIMALS = HEALTHY MAGICAL FOOD The image above is snake soup by the way... If it has made you uncomfortable in anyway then I apologize... This topic is probably the most controversial... all the other points I made was all like laughable and making fun of silly practices, but when I hear about people killing sharks just for their fins, killing snakes for soup, killing even the cutest looking dog for their meat! OMG gimme a minute.. I need to wipe tears off my beautiful face. OK confession! I have eaten snake soup before (I guess I can call myself a SNAKE EATER! Hello Metal Gear fans), I was young and just followed what adults do... I regret it heaps after I found out that some of the snakes are being close to extinction. And I have eaten shark fins as well..... I can feel my tummy aching as I am typing this, usually shark fins are expensive and hard to get... which in turns makes chinese want to eat it more. The thing is, there's a believe that the rarer something is, the more healthy it is, even to the point of having magical healing abilities. Now these has no scientific proof what so ever! In fact after further investigations people are saying shark fin has a chance of containing mercury as well, meaning you may even get mercury poisoning and dying from it! You know what the deal is? Its all about money making, they try to make the rare food seems all healthy with exaggerated protein percentage and saying how hunters has to go to a far away land and kill a dragon to get those rare magical bird eggs, and people are stupid enough to believe that therefore it makes the food double in protein and worth every penny. *Sigh* But I'm glad to hear that recently Hong Kong has banned Shark Fins *Joy*, eventhough in some underground restaurants you can still get them.. and even dog meat I ain't joking... ARRGGGHHH, when there are puppies involved it becomes personal! I can stand children and women dying in movies, but if a dog dies I would cry like bitch. *ANGRYFACE*

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