collapsedsquid said: What about Criminal Country?
believe it or not, this is actually hot discourse right now:
土澳 or TuAo: Is this Chinese popular term for Australia affectionate or condescending?
Taken literally, TuAo means “unrefined, backwards Australia”.
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Wai Ling Yeung, a former Chinese studies professor at Curtin University, points out that many Chinese-Australians use the character for village when referring to suburbs.
“Because of that, many China-based netizens think all Australian cities are like country towns, but this is in fact not what Chinese-Australians mean,” she said.
She contrasts TuAo with humorous slang used by Chinese abroad in other countries, including FuGuo for Britain, meaning “decadent country” — a coded term believed to refer to the UK’s attitudes towards homosexuality.
The US is also sometimes referred to online as MeiDi, meaning “American empire”.
If the Chinese call it an Empire, who am I to disagree? The largest military budget in the world, culture and commerce spreading out over the Earth, a currency used as a reserve everywhere else and as real money by entire foreign countries, and partial responsibility for the growing global obesity epidemic - who is to say that a Republic can’t be an Empire?
Now,
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you know what actually nevermind the rest of it
* coughing *
this pipe gimmick was a bad idea
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