<p>Just look at how many shameless stereotypes people are throwing.</p>
<p>its no joke that the chinese are experts at making copies</p>
<p>ipods, iphones, computers, versace, channel, etc
at this company i work for which makes car parts, we see a lot of our products being copied in the chinese market.</p>
<p>That's quite the generalization TheBlackLantern.</p>
<p>you're only saying that because the generalization has negative connotations. If TheBlackLantern made a positive stereotype, you wouldn't be upset at all.</p>
<p>Chinese people are hard-working, industrious, and have great food! that's a generalization but no one will get mad.</p>
<p>Chinese people usually have black hair, brown eyes, and on average, are shorter than blacks/whites. 3 generalizations right there. Now people will fry me, but no one will for the hard-working, industrious, and great food comment, but both are stereotypes.</p>
<p>You're right stargazerlilies. When people make an insult they will take offense, just like when people make a compliment, they won't. What are you saying? That these negative stereotypes are justified?</p>
<p>@manatees: Yeah, but is the degeneration of English's case forms always parallel? I was under the impression English just stopped using thy/thou/thine/thee and just used 'you' but NEVER had a third person plural. (If I've made a mistake, forgive me, right now I'm doing Sanskrit and Latin and my understanding of English grammar is a little warped as a result)</p>
<p>This might start another pointless round of being indignant over depictions of foreign peoples, but you know what I've always wanted to hear?</p>
<p>People from the Orient (I suppose I can't say Orient, but can't say Asian, because let's face it, I'm not talking about Indians, Arabs or Russians), making fun of the way English sounds.</p>
<p>You know, how juvenile kids will say "Chong chee chong chong Xiao oojimaaona Shu!"
in order to make fun of Asians in general?</p>
<p>What do Asians do to make fun of European languages?</p>
<p>I bet it sounds awesome.</p>
<p>lol.
noobs.</p>
<p>@collegehopefull - Having been to China, when the kids in China make fun of how English sounds, it sounds almost exactly the same when kids in America make fun of the Asian language! Isn't that interesting?</p>
<p>Ahaha, that's awesome!</p>
<p>Not really what I expected though. Native speakers of western languages making fun of asian languages do a good job of making whatever comes out of their mouth sound as far removed as possible from their own tongue. I guess I assumed Asian speakers would have some hilarious approximation of English sounds.</p>
<p>wow I started this thread to get a few laughs going, but instead I get a huge argument on political correctness hahahh</p>
<p>...........
Then I might consider me going to attend Jinan U the same as in Cornell, and vice versa....
I swear my essay has copied no one......</p>
<p>actually, I'm pretty sure the proper form IS "he/she" or to use "he" one sentence and "she" the next. "They" is still the plural and not applicable in situations when referring to a third person singular.</p>
<p>actually since English is a masculine language, you're supposed to use "he" but to be PC people often use he/she...hahahh this thread has gotten so lame-o</p>
<p>political correctness strikes again, once again infiltrating every aspect of our lives, even our grammar!</p>
<p>Yeah, I mean, it's derivative (or degenerate I s'pose) of Latin, so the masculine declension is grammatically correct...
but it's not as though English has much in the way of grammatical gender ( I mean, relative to Latin), which is why using they or he has always bothered me.</p>