{"id":544,"date":"2010-10-26T11:39:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T19:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2010-10-26T11:43:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T19:43:47","slug":"foreigners-sing-mandarin-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/foreigners-sing-mandarin-song\/","title":{"rendered":"\u8001\u5916\u5531\u4e2d\u6587\u6b4c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny that some Chinese in the US call the English-speaking people (white, African American, or Hispanic) lao3 wai4 <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E8%80%81%E5%A4%96\">\u8001\u5916<\/a> (foreigners), even if they are not citizens or permanent residents yet. It is just like many Cantonese call the non-Cantonese-speakers or Mandarin speakers &#8220;Northerners&#8221; even those people are from places further South of Canton (Guangzhou).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, laowai (<a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E8%80%81%E5%A4%96\">\u8001\u5916<\/a>), is a good word for many Chinese. This laowai is sure very popular:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ed_c4O7yGbE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ed_c4O7yGbE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>and this <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E6%B4%8B%E5%A6%9E\">\u6d0b\u599e<\/a> (foreign girl)<br \/>\n<object style=\"background-image:url(http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/YBkRKBmYmew\/hqdefault.jpg)\"  width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YBkRKBmYmew?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YBkRKBmYmew?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" allowScriptAccess=\"never\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny that some Chinese in the US call the English-speaking people (white, African American, or Hispanic) lao3 wai4 <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E8%80%81%E5%A4%96\">\u8001\u5916<\/a> (foreigners), even if they are not citizens or permanent residents yet. It is just like many Cantonese call the non-Cantonese-speakers or Mandarin speakers &#8220;Northerners&#8221; even those people are from places further South of Canton (Guangzhou). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50,4,83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}