by Ramin Mazaheri
I was flying from New York to Silicon Valley on the “Job Creators’ Red Eye”, and I had a chance to catch up on some foreign cultural news from our nation’s paper of record, The New York Times.
There was a very interesting item about the extremely backward practices of Asians regarding romance. This partly-ironic, mostly-pitying article focused on China.
Immediately, my blood ran cold. It had been running hot, as I was just reading the Times’ recap of the misdeeds of Putin towards my millionaire friends running the Democratic party (pages 1-19 of their Section A). But when the page turned to his eastern ally I got as chilly as a crafty Chinese capitalist, which they all are. (How else could we possibly explain that growth rate?)
The reality is that romance is political: I, for example, date identities and not actual people. If you identify with Trump or (American God forbid) Putin, there is no romantic future for us. It’s really quite logical – how can I date someone I refuse to even have a conversation with?
As a romantic, I accept reality. For example: Yes, there are 1 or 2 remnants of communism in China, but capitalism is a culture and not just an economic policy. It’s not enough for us to have McDonald’s all over China; what good is a Big Mac if the Chinese don’t know why they have to incessantly eat them? Where’s the continuous profit growth?
That’s why articles like these are crucial, because we have to get the Chinese to not just eat like Americans, but to view romance like us too.
The best way to produce cultural changes – since there are no targets for our many bullets – is mocking and shame. The New York Times publishes in Chinese, thankfully, and I hope our withering contempt translates well.
Just as we must attack their political leaders, their romance advice columnists must come an attack no less serious! Both are extremely backwards and ignorant, obviously – just look at one of their leading romantic lights, Yang Bingyang:
“A former model, author of nine books and, she says, one of the first Chinese admitted to Mensa…”
Yes, that is the correct Western order: the fact that she is a model is the most impressive. I was surprised there was not a link to any of her pictures because it has been nearly 11 minutes since I saw a woman nearly naked – what is this, Saudi Arabia?
“Our world has been hijacked by political correctness,” Ms. Yang said. “I’m criticized for telling the truth about the differences between men and women.”
The best journalism hangs them with their own words! PC has only liberated us in every way; there are no differences between men and women. When are we going to start using NSA spy capabilities for apprehending anti-PC terrorists who make such offensive declarations in their own homes? I’m sure Hillary would have implemented this already!
She elaborated: “A man’s M.V. (mate value) is determined by his age, height, looks, wealth, I.Q., emotional quotient, sexual capacity and willingness to make a long-term commitment….The eight elements in a woman’s M.V. are her ‘age, looks, height, bra cup size, weight, academic degrees, personality and family background’.”
Frankly, this is abhorrent – I would imagine this will one day be included in our justifications to the UN for humanitarian intervention.
Not only do I not notice colour, ethnicity or gender, but I am far, far above being concerned about a woman’s age. Surprisingly, this created a problem for me when I tried to take that 13-year old Thai girl out of the country. “I don’t see superficialities like age or looks, you bigoted Trumpers,” I screamed at the Thai border police!
But I guess the Chinese really are White in a way – there’s “bra size” instead of “hip size” Still, I can’t have anything truly in common with such a sexist society.
And I thought they had a fetish for tiny feet? It seems they don’t talk about that enough, but I hope they bring back that practice soon – just during work hours in my Chinese factories, of course.
“Don’t have sex for the first few months,” Ms. Yang tells women.
I immediately fell out of my first-class seat laughing at this. In fact, I had to go back to the coach section and tell my work “teammate” Fazlollah, even though I can’t stand him. We all call him “Lefty” because no one can pronounce his name.
“How long do men have to wait to have sex in your country,” I asked Lefty.
Fazlollah straightened up, leaned forward in his seat to not bother the woman in the aisle seat next to him and worriedly whispered, “Is this really the place for such a conversation?”
Those uptight Asianers…so repressed. I hope many of our soldiers are liberating their women around our many army bases.
Fazollah tried to change the subject to Putin’s evilness, but there are some things which are even more important, so I loudly insisted he tell me how long I have to wait for sex when I visit his native country.
“Well, boss, I’m certainly not going to tell you about me and my wife, but I’ll say that most of my friends waited one year before having sex with their fiancees or wives.”
I burst out laughing again!
Lefty added: “But I have a younger friend and he says the newer generation has no patience and can only wait for 6 months.”
My God, Fazlollah’s people really are a bunch of animals. The way they treat their women is just beyond insulting, because we all know women are desirous of immediate sex as men are. So, really, their women are animals too. But the sheer waste of resources – taking her out, buying her food, spending your time – and then not getting anything out of it?!
I went back to my paper, where the Times interviewed a different romantic columnist, named simply Ayawawa.
“Many of Ayawawa’s fans consider her the personification of the success they crave for themselves: attractive, married to a man she describes as a loving husband, the mother of two children.”
Again, attractiveness is what is important for Chinese women – good, they are learning about Western feminism. Given that odd list of craved-for successes, they clearly still have much to learn.
“Chinese schools don’t offer a proper education in love and relationships,” Mr. Lu, a male romantic advice columnist, said in another interview. “People get their ideas mostly from TV dramas.”
I never heard of any American getting their ideas from TV? We’re a free-thinking people, after all. The Asians are just so inscrutable…that’s why we have given up scrutinizing them for any cultural coherence at all and are just going to turn them into Americans.
True, I was taught about sex in school when I was 12 – we took that as a sign that our community wanted us all to start having sex. There’s no stigma attached to 13-year old pregnancies anymore – it’s just the sign of a good student who pays proper attention. But w never did get any sort of real education about relationships – those are personal subjects never to be discussed, like God and my tax returns!
“For women, spending more time with a man deepens her love. But for a man, the longer he stays with a woman, the less he loves her,” Mr. Lu posted this month.
That’s funny: I told the same thing to my 3rd wife. She got very upset, and that’s when I remembered the David Bowie song, “China Girl”.
The chorus to “Little China Girl” goes: “And when I get I excited, my little China girl, says ‘Oh baby, just you shut your mouth.’”
Cheekily, I told that last part to her.
When I woke up in the hospital I asked the doctor if I had been hit in the head with a frying pan. He said I was hit by the phone my wife uses to have our dinner delivered. I really was asking for it: I knew we didn’t need a land line anymore.
During my recuperation and divorce settlement I had time to listen that whole Bowie album, and I see that I was wrong to quote him in the first place.
The chorus to another song, “Modern Love”, is “Never gonna fall for modern love”. I don’t know why I ever took advice from some impractical romantic musician….
Like I told my 4th wife just before we signed our pre-nup: Love is really all about material benefits. Luckily, the New York Times never, ever takes their eye off this ball.
“Both of them advise women to manipulate men to gain material benefits,” said Ms. Lu, a founder of an online feminist journal in China. Now take it easy – she’s just a feminist and not a communist, because she didn’t dare criticize manipulating people to gain material benefits.
“The question is, Why in China is it women who scheme to get men to commit to marriage? Why, when it comes to marriage, are women the sellers and men the buyers? It’s because women don’t have the space to develop themselves.”
See, this is what modern love is: Romance is a transaction! It should be ruled by the laws of the market, not the laws of nature or even morality. You don’t have to be a feminist to get that! And we’re going to make sure the Chinese understand this.
Let’s give women the chance to be the buyers, finally, eh? That’s equality.
Let’s have men be the ones who scheme to get women to commit to marriage, eh? That’s social and moral progress.
“It’s sad to see, when the economy has produced so many more opportunities, that more and more women believe that getting married is superior to working hard and achieving a successful career,” she said.
I want to hire this person to run one of my factories in Shenzhen! Yes, of course nothing is more important than working hard in one of my factories! Certainly not your family life!
If I had more workers like I her I think I could shave nearly 7 cents off the price of my electronics? But we in New York City can’t do anything with Chinese women who cling to outdated desires and notions.
“Liang, for example, is trying to lose weight and improve her makeup skills and is practicing baking.”
Sophisticated reader that I am, I realise that this poor Liang is meant to be portrayed as a sad, pathetic loser…even though at 29 she has a fiancé, office job and is apparently not fat.
But she’s a loser – and all modern women who read The New York Times will agree with me – because by selfishly putting her future family first, she’s setting back a woman’s right to devote her body and soul to work for me.
The article concludes with this appallingly out-of-date and unfocused woman’s pathetic view:
“The differences between men and women are inborn. I take these ideas seriously because I want a better life for myself, not because I’m eager to make the world better for women.”
There is a word for this type of woman: a misogynist. This Chinese woman, because she wants romantic love, a family, and a home life which includes the smell of fresh baked fortune cookies, is a actually a woman-hating, repressive, backwards misogynist.
And she’s obviously some sort of Putin supporter – or at least Trump – because she doesn’t realise that identity politics requires her to divide the world into women versus men. By not trying to make the world better for only women, she is fighting for the wrong side!
How are we going to divide China if we can’t foist identity politics on them?
And the baking, my God, the baking!!!! For a modern woman she may as well be a Black person asked to pick cotton!
Frankly l don’t know why her fiancé even wants her? She’s clearly going to be a drag on his bottom line: baking can be done cheaper by others; that’s less time spent earning wages; and the emotional ideas she’s taking seriously are so detached from economics that there is no point to even pursue them.
But most appalling, again, is that there are inborn differences between men and women. It’s just not true and you know it!
Both of them work just fine on my factory floor – they are basically interchangeable. I’m proud to report that when a man drops from exhaustion we replace him immediately with a woman with no drop off in my profitability.
Now that is modern, and I love it.
Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for Press TV and has lived in France since 2009. He has been a daily newspaper reporter in the US, and has reported from Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, South Korea and elsewhere. His work has appeared in various journals, magazines and websites, as well as on radio and television.
Talking is over rated. Ive read of married couples that dont speak the others language, seems to work better.
I’m sure there’s an important cultural – philosophical – political message in this…. but I’m laughing too hard to figure it out :0
Re baking. When the Chinese feminists denounce ring donuts as sexist, you’ll know the West has won…
Mr. Ramin Mazaheri, thank you again for an article full of humour.
But seriously, if you want to find out real conservative manners in relationships and marriage, I would suggest to take a look at the medieval state of Saudi Arabia.
I have worked at a company that had regular relations with companies in the KSA, and several colleagues (including a woman) had been regularly there, and told me a few things.
They told me that a marriage is nearly always arranged, and a bride must be bought. Quite often the marriage is inside a family, a nephew with a niece (What would Mother Nature think of that?).
After the marriage, the new wife simply puts her feet on the table and says: ‘Now you take care of me’. Which means that she does nothing on the household, and cheap ‘helps’ from e.g. the Philippines or Indonesia are flown in to do all the work, often under barbaric circumstances -it’s a kind of slavery.
To put sarcasm over irony, the KSA has recently been appointed as chairman of the UN Group on ‘Women’s Rights’…..
What are human rights, today? Ever? Just b.s. that one country or person uses to malign the other.
Very good dry humor and telling about the American (un)culture. Fact is we lost culture after the 60’s uprising. Of course , the flower children of the sixties were probably the last generation in America to have any semblance of culture and morality. The music, movies,reading material, TV,etc. started to tear down culture and morality during the 60’s and, now, there is precious little of either. I keep telling my wife that the world is going to hell in a handbasket basket. I also tell her to be vigilant when entering any retail establishment and be especially so, if she bends over for any reason. If I had my choice, I wish that I could have grown up in Russia or modern-day China. My parents raised me to respect others and treat them the way I would like to be treated, EVEN when I wasn’t treated with respect. That’s not American and definitely not American, today. Only anew immigrant could write such a story. Americans have their heads up in there where it’s dark and smelly.
Thanks, Ramin. And thank you, Saker.
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Ordinary people are the same the world over. The want the same things and care about the same things. But this truth confounds concepts of nationalism used to justify wars. So people of nation a must be trained from near birth to see people of nation b as ‘alien’- even if those alien differences are presented in an ‘affectionate’ or ‘amusing’ way.
Just before Blair invaded Iraq, and murdered two million Humans, and destroyed an advanced secular industrialised society, the BBC had a bloke on TV who had just travelled across Iraq visiting the well kept British War Cemetaries. He told the audience how nice the people of Iraq had been to him all across that nation- and how utterly wicked Blair’s coming war would be.
Demon’s must inform sheeple of the absolute true consequences of their plans. Sheeple must be complicit in their own destruction.
The problem faced by sheeple is their need to be controlled by ‘alphas’- ‘tribal’ africans with weird ‘rituals’ for instance are not exhibiting some ancient behaviour- merely the consequences of letting highly perverted alphas take control of their societal rules for their own perverted amusement. So ‘tribal’ people are not ‘primative’ people but vulnerable people.
So talking about chinese ‘culture’ when it comes down to ordinary life is as racist as talking about british ‘culture’. Chinese people want what British people (etc) want. This is why a chinese person in, say Birmingham, lives a life that is 99.9% like any other british person. Now this doesn’t mean the ‘fripperies’ of culture could or should be arbitarily ripped from any person- the familiar makes us comfortable and happy and links strongly to the heritage of a region. But in an abolute sense such things are completely meaningless, so laws that say a new-born adopted kid must experience the ‘culture’ of their ‘ancestors’ is as completely obscene as eugenics, and actually reflects the same demonic influence on us.
People want good friends and family- to love and be loved- to live a life that can be valued by themselves and respected by others. Such a universal truth is loathed by all who make their living in the journalistic trade. Hurt and hate is their credo- if it bleeds it leads. Turn the misfortunes of your neighbour into a national soap opera. I wish I could say I’ve ever come across a good journalist, but I have not.
Interestingly, traditional journos hate the Internet and everything it stands for, since for the first time ordinary people could talk about anything for any reason- maybe reaching just as large an audience as traditional journalism. But unlike the journo, the motivation for communicating was not the self serving commercial manipulation of the masses. A journo writes for reward, and that is a corrupting factor that never goes away. This is why almost all journalism outlets on the web have killed their comment sections.
PS Press-TV, Al-Jazeera and even RT were all originally creations of the BBC World Service- one of the many propaganda arms of MI6. Yes the BBC partnered with Russia, Iran and certain Middle East nations, but the original figures behind these services had the longest history with the BBC and MI6. This is why even today these three services are so very pro-Israel, using the exact same language as the BBC when describing various groups or events. Press-TV uses the ‘excuse’ of not wanting to be (even more) banned in the West.
Yes RT is pro-Russian (but not as firmly as you might expect), Press-TV is pro-Iran, and Al-jazeera is pro-Qatar, but not one of these services dares to be a bulwark against the evil of the West. This makes the bashing RT and Press-TV gets in the mainstream press all the more amusing- since 99%+ of the time they all share the exact same language in their reports. But the bashing is designed to give a false impression of editorial stance, and to demonise Russia and Iran.
If Press-TV really (and here’s a clue- it does not) wanted to make a difference, it would seek to bring to the attention of ordinary people in the West the very nasty crimes against Humanity that happen on a daily basis in Saudi Arabia. Attacking Israel would backfire on Press-TV, but SA is a target wholly free from such issues. So why does Press-TV do ‘clever’ flowery American-magazine junk writing for the middle-class political chattering classes rather than hard-hiting continuous exposes of Saudi Arabia. Same reason the BBC doesn’t, or the NYT doesn’t.
The ordinary folk of the West- especially the women- would be sickened to their very soul to discover the nature of British/American protected Saudi rule. So why would Press-TV (or RT) hesitate to report true story after story after story after story about the insanely depraved crimes of the House of Saud. Every report would hurt the monsters who rule in Britain and America. After all the mainstream press runs story after story after story (mostly false) demonising Russia and Iran. So why are RT and Press-TV so reluctant to use the same method back?
May I guess the answer to your final question? Because it wears off.
In a market place of supply and demand, I had read that the Chinese gender imbalance of 30million more marriage aged males in excess of females (caused by the preference for males during the one-child policy) meant women were in short supply, and therefore able to “name their price”.
This NYT article seems to have been written from within the zeitgeist of the New York female (think TV series Sex and the City)* where women outnumber males (or at least males with high MV).
(And thanks for the laugh!)
* important disclaimer! have never watched an entire episode of that brain-rotting trash, but just a few unanticipated and unwelcome exposures was all that was needed for me to know what it’s about.
Lol
The israeli nyt criticising Asian social relations, from new york, no less, a city where feminine hygiene is a squirt of fds, and golddigging is considered the most respectable career choice for women. :-D
Ramin, too, reads the NYT and is triggered by the the psyops in every sentence to write some BS himself. Yawn.
I am eternally puzzled by the fact that not only the causal reader, but even most of the professional alt-journalists, who should know better, seem to be unable to understand even the first principle of information war – and we have been assaulted by Zion in the most vicious, militant, dirty, total
information war since two, three centuries, for heaven’s sake! The first rule is:
> > Do not repeat enemy propaganda if not absolutely required < <
Everybody gets that? Can you see, feel the psychological basis for why this is so fundamentally important?
For example, I am standing in front of a class and I say: "I am NOT hungry."
The only word the children will hear is "hungry" and most of them will immediately feel hungry and will start getting restless and fidgety…
Therefore, repeating Zion's highly sophisticated mind control propaganda at length and ending with, “what the NYT say is NOT true!” is not only not helpful, but counter-productive. Actually, the propaganda programmers have anticipated your repeating their programming ad nauseam. This is how they infiltrate your mind. This is why you will be hard pressed to find a single role-model, favorite musician, historical fact, opinion, 'truth', belief you consider to be yours, that doesn’t stem directly form a life-long habit of consuming Zion’s propaganda junk news. It is highly addictive.
Zion’s propaganda weapons are scientifically designed to make you think and talk about their neurotoxic and virus-ladden memes from morning to evening. Even in your sleep your cognition will crave for more propaganda porn.
amazing! agree 100%
No sir, Chinese girls never fall in love, at least not for long! Madam Mao (Jiang Qing) was the quintessential Chinese woman. But as Mao said, women (Chinese) hold up half the sky. From my perspective, they hold up at least half the sky and often a great deal more! How do I know? Beginning with my mother, I have lived with Chinese women all my life. They take charge in the home and drive the family forward and sometimes drive everyone crazy. The husband is relegated to a minor role of bringing home the bacon. Sometimes even this is dispensed with. The woman (Chinese) of the house would bring home even more money than the man by her business acumen. I kid you not. I grew up with such a woman. I saw the same ‘take charge’ trait in my daughter. Sigh, Maybe I am to be blamed. I love her so much that I gave gave her a solid education! That’s one of the reasons why I am hoping that one of my grandsons will marry a Russian girl – one of those very beautiful blue-eyed Slavonic blonds. Then maybe one of my bloodlines will have more submissive women. Or am I kidding myself?
“capitalism is a culture and not just an economic policy” <-no truer words were ever spoken. Communists leaders in European communists countries understood that very well and that is why they didn't allow much of the so called "Western entertainment" inside. As somebody who grew up under Communism, I am actually eternally grateful to them for keeping my brain pure and not allow it to be assaulted by what is Western entertainment.
You can think of it in form of viruses, memes. If you have never been exposed to a virus you ave no natural defenses against it. And there was no way our entertainment could fight against so called Western entertainment.
One of the worst things about traveling by plane in the US is that you are forced to enter a propaganda bombardment zone. Airports only sell officially propaganda-approved fish-wrappers like the NYTimes. Its nearly impossible to find a place to sit down and rest where one is not bombarded by the latest from Fake News Channel (FNC) or the Counterfeit News Network (CNN).
So, while I would normally tell Mr. Mazaheri to put down the NYTimes, I do realize that when travelling in the US there is often no alternative.
I used to keep a copy of Karl Marx with me, specifically for reading in the George Herbert Walker Bush Airport in Texas, but after 9-11 figured I’d better not. I thought of it as a joke, but that particular airport reads out constant messages warning about the consequences of making a joke in an airport.
If you want to destroy a society, undermine the nuclear family. Introduce divisive identity politics. Split the nation, create tension between men and women, between one shade of skin and another, between one higher wage earner and a lower wage earner, and so on… Find and create problems that aren’t there. Accuse those who don’t see this emperor’s clothing of being too stupid and racist and non-progressive. Raise up ‘democratic’ candidates or opposition leaders to fan the flames and split everyone into separate camps. Then attack!
Watch out China! America and Europe are learning the hard way for abandoning principles from that dreaded Christian religion that dared to declare God ever had a blueprint for how people ought to live and where to direct their sexuality.
I LOVED this! Really fine.
Enjoyed this read immensely. Lived in Asia going on 15years.
Married an Asian woman and learned the language to a passable degree (I can travel solo no problem).
Language is a window into culture; invaluable for understanding said culture.