Winston wrote:Repatriate,
How is a mass of people in China different than a mass of people in Taipei?
I don't buy those claims though, that Chinese women are PAYING white males to sleep with them. Women aren't that desperate and dominated by such urges. Plus, if they can get sex for free, why would they need to pay for it? It doesn't make sense.
1. Taiwan is very small yet there are still some differences between north and south, various cities, and Taipei vs. rest. I think you can extend these differences to dating experiences of westerners as well. But when compared to China, Taiwan is very homogeneous, both culturally and economically. Before a lot of mixing occurred in last couple decades - you had some 97% as Han Chinese - 65% Taiwanese (Minan which your family falls into), 8% Hakka give-or-take, and 24% mainlanders who came over with Nationalists around 1949. The remaining 3% comprise various aboriginal groups. Being stuck together on a small island with a strong 1-party government up through mid-90s has forced these groups to converge culturally. Even many of the aborigines have been sinofied to the point that its hard to recognize them as individual belonging to a minority group. Taiwan has a large middle class, the rich-poor gap has been very narrow by international standards, and the very poor class is almost non-existent.
China s a vast land with dozens of big provinces, most of which are much larger than Taiwan both in terms of area and population. Up through late 90s, travel was restricted and most people did not have the freedom to go far from their registered households. A huge percentage could only speak their regional dialects, not Mandarin. As you know, these are often mutually unintelligible from region to region, especially south of the Yangtze. Even one province might have several very different dialects from area to area. People look, act, and seem very different from area to area and between various economic classes. You have have very big wealth differences and these extend to general education levels as well. Some provinces were much wealthier than others. Wealth has been concentrated along coastal areas while much of inland provinces have been relatively impoverished. Middle class has been small but is growing rapidly but the already large rich-poor gap has also grown with real estate boom. China has had a very large poor class in recent history and a signficant percentage of the population is still much poorer than about anyone you could find in Taiwan. Given this backdrop, you can easily find huge cultural, economic, and educational difference between various people in China. Foreigners and westernized Chinese like yourself will likely have very life different experiences from place to place in China.
2. What you say about women paying for sex makes logical sense. But it does happen in certain cases -
a. Friday clubs in Taiwan for women (young and older) who want to be entertained by well trained and very attractive male hosts. Naturally, some relationships evolve between clients and hosts in these venues which continue outside of the clubs. Sometimes the females are lonely wives of richer men and other times they are prostitutes who wanna have the tables turned for a change.
b. Poorer foreign guys (often from 2nd or 3rd world countries) come to Taiwan or China, win-over the heart(s) of one or more local women, and convince her/them to offer him support since they do not have enough money.
c. Very attractive and/or younger foreign guys with limited means who date wealthier and/or older women. If the woman has money but the guy does not, she will naturally pay for things and treat him to experiences he could not have on his own.
Also, many foreign guys in Taiwan date local women on a go-Dutch basis or else take turns treating. I've done this before. And when living together, the rent is often shared equally.
That situation is probably rarer than hen's teeth unless there's some sort of established long term romantic relationship already. Let's just put it this way, guys have a tendency to bullshit about a lot of things especially when it comes to women. This is especially true if there's a social reason to boost one's own ego.