Chinese restaurants thank Jewish customers for the business on Christmas

buddhist vegetarian is usually vegan...

We found one in Victoria, BC that was wonderful! Loved that place...

 

Andrew, please ask your Chinese friends to say

"Leroy and Larry very rarely relies on relationships"

My friends from Japan have a heck of a time with it.

 

A long time ago I worked with an older guy who was born in China whose favorite joke was...

Two restaurant owners, a Greek and a Chinese had restaurants directly next door to each other. Every morning, as they were opening up, the Greek would call over, "Hey Chan, what you got special today?"

Chan would respond, "Flied lice!", and the Greek would laugh.

Chan didn't think it was funny, and spent hours and hours practicing saying, "fried rice"

Then one morning, when the Greek guy asked what his special was, Chan, with a big smile on his face yelled, loudly, "FRIED RICE, YOU GLEEK PLICK!"

 

That's funny. And yet, very few if any of the native English speakers among us could even begin to say it in Chinese.

 

I took a semester of University level Standard Chinese (national version of Mandarin). A Westerner learning Chinese can inadvertently provide endless entertainment for native Chinese speakers.

 

The biggest thing for me about chinese are the tones. When you are learning a language, generally you aren't very confident when speaking. So as a westerner, you increase your tone towards the end of the sentence to make the entire thing a question showing that you are unsure of what you said. It is fairly common in all western languages to do so when learning. However when you do this in Chinese, you completely alter the meaning of the words and screw everything up.

And then between regions of China there are so many dialects it is nearly impossible!

 

Tonality is a big problem for westerners, and reading and writing are a whole 'nother problem.

 

It's funny how this thread went to being what it is, to making fun of Chinese people or how they talk. As a Chinese person though, I really don't care, haha.

But I have the feeling if these were Jewish jokes, everyone would get offended. Just sayin... :suspicious:

 

Could be worse. I had a co-worker who loved telling the most horrible Asian Driver jokes. And yes, he was Japanese.

 

Back to the original topic--
I'm a Jew who does know Jewish folks, even in Arkansas, who eat Chinese food on Christmas.
And, while the sign at the beginning of this thread admitted to not knowing much about Jewish food customs,
there used to be a small but thriving class of Kosher Chinese restaurants in New York. I don't know how many are left these days.

And I remember a very funny (to me) song on the show of famous non-Jew Garrison Keillor called "It's a Technicolor Christmas if You're Jewish, 'Cause the Movie Houses Never Close."

 

In my Jewish family there were always lots of Jewish jokes told. The thing is that such racial jokes can be light-hearted, or they can be cruel. I kind of think that jokes about people's pronunciation of a foreign language are inoffensive. Mexicans always laughed at my Spanish, but it didn't seem like mean laughter. I was aware of my mistakes, and the laughter didn't bother me. But when someone makes jokes about a particular race being stupid or violent or inferior, or jokes about people who the joke-teller doesn't like being hurt, that is cruel.

Someone posted a mean, petty, and rather pointless "joke" in the jokes thread, all about someone tricking a parking cop into giving a ticket to someone with a particular political bumper sticker on their car. That's just stupid, besides being petty and cruel. Similarly, jokes in which someone of some particular race is hurt because they fit a racist's stereotype, have no place in decent society.

But most groups tell jokes on themselves. Humor really is universal.

And as I noted in post #24, most of us English speakers are complete linguistic ignoramuses compared to most foreign-speaking immigrants.

 

Q: What do you call a person who speaks 3 languages?
A: Trilingual


Q: What do you call a person who speaks two languages?
A: Bilingual






Q: What do you call a person who speaks one language?







A: An American