wat
This is the correct response.
ALSO... PRO-tip ! Show Image
If you want to pick up girls in Asia.. and you're dressed 'Murican'. Add a pair of glasses.
I was there, in my baggy pants and fitted Shirt.. Apparently All my cousins said I looked like the hooligans they put on TV..
So, one of my cousin's GF hands me my glasses, and they're like.. ah yes, the casual library goer..
This whole summer, 3 month of asia with a month of US in between I wore my glasses the entire time..
And you know what.. It really works..
Lol... I think just being well dressed and clean looking helps more than anything. Also helps to be socially aware and interesting.
Source: Studied at HKU for a year (had to politely decline more ladies' confessions than I have fingers to count) and worked in Taiwan for two years (same thing here).
Nothing to do with my being an American either because I speak perfect Taiwanese Mandarin (no one believes I'm an ABC until I take out my passport to show them).
Yea.. that 's what they want you to think..
Women are highly deceptive creatures in general, and they never show-hand..
You probably don't think much about being Murican, but over there in a highly crowded and homogenous society.. Things such as upward mobility is VERY difficult.. which is why so many people want to LEAVE..
As a female, even if you are "especially dedicated to your craft, be it academic or arts" your actual worth is still very much down to how pretty you are..
Because there is always 999 super ugly chick with higher test scores than you..
and there's also 1001 super ugly dudes with SIGNIFICANTLY higher test scores than you
No, that
is what they thought. I used my 台灣身分證 to get my job in Taiwan and even my boss didn't know I was from the US until my first paycheck and I didn't have a Taiwanese bank account to collect the payment.
You make a claim as if you know me and can pass judgment on my ability to not stick out like a sore thumb in Asia, but just so you know, there are members of the Asian diaspora that speak their 母語 as well as if not better than the official language of the country of their birth (in my case, English, as I was born in the US) and prefer not to be a walking Western billboard to attract unwanted attention.
Also, your general statements about upward mobility might very well be true (and indeed, I have no proof to invalidate them) but they don't make sense when applied to my own experiences where most of the girls I have had these experiences with easily tripled or quadrupled my meager salary and already had green cards or visas to reside in Western countries.
I don't know what kind of "chicas" you're trying to pick up (certainly a different group than I have experience with) but most of the ones I've had encounters with abroad were educated at some of the best universities in Asia and in the world (HKU, SNU, NTU, NUS, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale etc...) and already have all the upward mobility they want.
I don't see what kind of upward mobility they can gain by latching onto the poor and lesser educated American born Taiwanese guy. Oh right, and there's also the fact that half of them weren't even Asian (British, Scottish, French, German, etc). Last I checked, UK girls jumping at US guys for green cards wasn't a thing. :p
Maybe next time I'm in Asia, I'll consider putting on some baggy clothes and glasses but for now I'm content. If girls can latch onto guys for upward mobility in society, then the reverse is certainly true too - maybe I'll aim for a smart and sexy Oxford lawyer next time :cool:
