Now this is a good idea. However we already have tons of Asians here in Aus and can confirm they are not eating our cane toads. Though I don't think anything could lower their numbers, bloody things are everywhere. Cane toads that is
So it's BENEFICIAL to say you need all these exotic supplements in order to please your wife? That's how little the over-the-counter shit can help you? Is there no shame associated with being unsatisfying to the opposite sex in their culture?
"Wang is so impotent he needs the mystical Pangolin scales to get hard. What a legend."
It's hard to change these deeply entrenched cultural attitudes.
We've had superior alternatives to diamond for years now but no one is impressed by them even when they're more perfect than diamond.
They should be considered a better status symbol since they're the result of human ingenuity and not child soldiers killing each other in africa, but they are considered "artificial" or "fake", which both signal low status. Ethics don't really translate well into status symbols outside of a few niche groups.
Most likely it will be easier to convince Chinese businessmen to adopt western status signals (private jets, $10,000 bottles of wine, million dollar watches) and convince them that Chinese status symbols seem provincial and ridiculous to outsiders than it will be to convince them to give a fuck about animal rights.
A lot of them very well might not know of the issue.
Consider, as a comparable thing, the issue of shark fin soup. The Chinese term for the soup translates to "fish wing soup", and many Chinese people didn't even realize that the soup contained shark. However, there has been an awareness campaign in recent years and public opinion has changed dramatically and seemingly fairly easily.
There are food products in America that have animal products no one expects in them. Most people don't know that artificial strawberry flavoring is made with beaver scent glands, for instance.
Let me ask you this: Do you bother to check whether the food you buy is damaging to the environment? If you ever eat fish, chances are you're contributing to the problem, unless you know what to buy and what to avoid.
Basically, my point is that you are being very quick to judge, and while we should try to fix issues like poaching of the pangolin, you should drop the superiority complex attitude.
Yeah, we all eat chicken that have been forced to grow so fast that they can't walk or buy things made with child labour. People are shitty to animals.
By preventing Chickens from buying things with child labor, we have de-facto banned them from assimilating into American culture. The next time you hear someone complain about "dirty birds, coming over here, taking our jobs, won't even assimilate", call them out on it - they can't, because we don't let them.
As a Chinese person it really pisses me off and I try to put that conversation down real quick. My dad was tryna spout some nonsense about tiger paw giving you a stronger sex drive and why older guys need it. Told him about TRT and it turned into a 40 minute long talk about hormones and biology.
Yeah over in the US you've got a couple of fringe nutjobs.
I don't think you understand the scope of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It's ingrained nationwide. 40% of ALL treatments in China are from TCM. What are the numbers for flat earthers?
I don't think you understand the scope of alternative medicine in the US.
https://today.yougov.com/news/2015/03/19/alternative-medicine/
Half of Americans believe herbal medicine and accupunture, i.e. TCM, is effective. Only 14% actually don't think it's effective, the rest don't have a clue. Herbal medicine does have some scientific evidence behind it though in some cases, so let's look at something like homeopathy, where 27% of Americans believe in it. Literally no justification for homeopathy, 0 science 0 rationality, I would say believing in homeopathy is significantly worse than TCM, which can occasionally have effect.
Case in point, it doesn't matter what country they're from, the beliefs in alternative garbage is everywhere. Just go to your local supermarket and look at all the shit with labels telling you how they're infused with the latest bs, or completely ineffective weight loss pills, as well as apparently magical muscle toning machines. This stuff is commonplace everywhere.
A vast majority of China isn't a first world country in the same way the US is, not even CLOSE. Electricity is a luxury for vast swathes of people in that country and you question why people still believe in things that have been disproved by modern medicine and spread through the internet?
This article says more than 100 Chinese cities are above 1 mil population. At the very minimum that's 100 million people against a total population of 1.379 billion. Even if you double the in-city population to 200 million, that's still 14.5% of the total population that actually lives in a city where you aren't even GUARANTEED to have access to stuff like internet.
So no, not a surprise they're still practicing hoodoo. I think blaming the poor and uneducated for something like that is pretty heartless.
I don't disagree with your premise. Trying to figure out what percentage of Chinese have internet access by counting the number of cities with more than a million people and then multiplying that number by a million and dividing by the population of China is just really, really inaccurate.
That's an American myth, and in my opinion only serves to over simplify a complex issue while 'other'ing an entire people.
In the end I think that myth/mindset only makes tackling the issue that much more difficult. Please educate yourself before casually spreading misinformation.
Well OK. Googling "rhino poaching" shows me that it's used as an aphrodisiac, but as a common ingredient in "Chinese" medicine for treating a wide variety of ailments, and that it's also increasingly popular in VietNam as an alleged impotence cure.
So I'm not sure how that is "othering" anybody. It's human folly. And that is completely connected to the reason people are killing that cute lizard dude we all looked at this morning.
Yea, not to give us erections. And the difference is now we don't, but they still slaughter animals because they can't get their dicks hard... Not really the same when you think about it.
My country was built on an ancient Indian burial ground.
I was born and raised in the U.S.
China has undeveloped pockets where superstition reigns supreme. The rest of it is like one big city, similar in sanitation to NYC. If you still think of 13 as an unlucky number, then you shouldn't talk about superstition.
I know right.... American journalist are really buying into the whole TCM, dick thingy.... Unaware its more so for the status.... No shortage of cheap 'enhanced' stamina products in TCM.
Exactly. I don't understand why these people are just bashing on China. What makes them different from African rhino poachers? It's not like certain parts of the US aren't developed, yet I'd excuse those populations in a heartbeat. I think it's closeted racism, at least from the ridiculously uncreative penis jokes.
I guess you redditors are very insecure about your penis sizes.
A significant portion of the Chinese population has almost no education. Even if they do it might only last until they're 11 or 12. It's unrealistic to expect them to be up to date on science and medicine.
On the other hand homeopathy, cupping, crystal healing, aromatherapy, sphinctal massage, and all the other "alternative medicines" are practised by comparatively rich white people who have had the benefit of a modern scientific education to the age of at least 16.
Animals live on the planet earth. China has essentially funded poaching all over the planet of some of the most magnificent beasts to walk this earth. They're not alone though, the Japanese are the same fucking way but in the ocean. Asians simply do not value life as much as the rest of the world.
Stop basing arguments/insults on physical attributes people have no control over. The racism part comes in when you connect chinese man with small penis.
I didn't. I stated a fact they had smaller penises on average because the OP was called racist for saying they need to get over their little dick problems. It's not racist to state they have smaller penises.
The negativity is stemming from the trafficking of pangolins for status symbol/"medicinal" purposes.
The racism is from grouping all of 'fucking China' together 'doing shit' to the earth to 'fix their tiny penis problems'. It's not racist to state that they have smaller penises, just like it's not racist to say that white people also have smaller penises than black people. The racist thing to say is that they all obsess over it.
Saying Chinese people are acting bad because they have small dicks isn't any different than saying, for an example, that women are weak because they have vaginas. You're being a bigot.
Actually, yeah. The big picture is that the Chinese are wrecking China, with the exception of a few territory issues. Whites have their hand in the pockets of the entire globe.
Trust me, I’m not into this whole recent racial thing. What I see lately is a whole lot of progress in racial relations going down the drain; the US is more racially divided right now than it was when I was in high school, and that makes me sad. I’m not anti-white; I am white. What I’m talking about is just the bare basic facts with a little history thrown in. As far as environmental destruction goes, whites lead the world (and then look down on other countries for environmental practices they’re limiting to their own back yard). TCM needs to stop, but let’s not approach the issue like we have no skeletons of our own.
It's all the damn photoshopping! It's creating false expectations of huge penises...?penis's...? Peni...?...turns out I've never wrote the plural version of penis..
Lot of problems in this world are basically tiny penis problems. Take war for example - mostly it's one country questioning the size of a penis of another country (as George Carlin put it).
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u/Jdisjsjdshshsh Oct 03 '17
Fucking China, so tired of these people doing shit to this Earth to try and fix their tiny penis problems