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Old 02-15-2024, 11:32 AM   #30205
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Originally Posted by PeanutButter View Post
I feel like those are all Mainlanders or Taiwanese. In my circle, they have the stereotype of having big boy money. All of those college students with houses and nice cars are all Mainlanders.

Cantonese Chinese are among the cheapest mother f*ckers around. That being said, my parents and their friends are going out more these days. I think that has to do with our generation showing them that spending money is okay, since they have so much of it now. Even then, they don't like to do it too often.
That's exactly it, people here are conflating the Chinese uncle that came here from HK in 1989 and worked some shit job for decades and saved up as the same person as a millionaire from Harbin that just drops in once a year to look at his properties.
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