Anna (Australia)
I lived in China for a while. Chinese women have such an obsession with fair skin that can make it difficult for dark skinned women to find high paying jobs and partners. The standard of beauty is the whiter the better and they will do pretty much anything to achieve that standard.
A woman wearing "face bikini" walks on a beach in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, May 26, 2014. [Photo/CFP] |
In our daily life, more and more loanwords appear and change our habits in Chinese expression. Loanwords sound very similar with their original English words, and the process of learning them is full of fun to foreign students.
It has been a while since I've contributed to this Forum and I figured that since now I am officially on summer holiday and another school year is behind me I would share a post with you.