LBH Loser Back Home
so I had this conversation yesterday about LBHs. Apparently an LBH is somebody (usually Male) who:
- Doesn't have a successful career
- Doesn't have a stable family life
- Is in China because he couldn't make anything of himself in his Home Country
- Lacks self-awareness
- Has delusions of grandeur (eg. thinks himself a misunderstood genius)
and of course....
- preys on YCGs
Do you know anybody who fits this description?
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Permalink Reply by Kev on -
Well, it's not uncommon to compare the people who've come to Shenzhen, especially the ones who came in the 80s and 90s, with the earliest White Americans.
People who were adventurous enough to leave behind their lives at home and make their own way.
Discuss...
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Permalink Reply by Kev on
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I was thinking foreigners. It is an English expression after all, and that's who I had the conversation with.
You can trash expats as well. You have it in you. I believe in you man!
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Permalink Reply by Drunken Monkey on -
Why are they leaving China then? If life is better here...
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Permalink Reply by 我是维奇 on -
There are plenty and plenty such guys out here, by my count. I have met quite a few in my 6 years in China.
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Permalink Reply by Beck on -
Many, I know at least two. Those guys even don't a home in their own country. Don't know where they can live, and no phone call from family memebers. In China, family is the first in our hearts, we won't mind how poor or how rich they are, we love family memembers...
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Permalink Reply by David - 戴維在中國 on -
Charades anyone? Give us a clue. Riddle me this even. A game I play in every social circle I ever move in when I hear this. I know you guys bang the family drum at every opportunity, answer me this. What do you really know about your family? The close relationship (as I have stated before) is defined by what you actually know about someone, anyone! Yet, you guys have no clue to the inner workings/thoughts/dreams hell, what food they like, or what their favourite colour is sometimes. So I bang the ignorance is bliss and just an illusion drum until you guys actually learn the meaning of close and can come up with something a little more substantial than a bunch of meaningless words.
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Permalink Reply by David - 戴維在中國 on
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And also WILL your home be paid for or subsidised by them when/if you get one? My ex wife borrowed heavily from the parents to buy an apartment and yet spent most of her time at her parents place. Point?
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Permalink Reply by Cynic The Troll on -
Marriage and a home are the holy grail in China. Your life is shit without both.
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Permalink Reply by David - 戴維在中國 on
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And often marriage is just a sham.
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Permalink Reply by Beck on
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Dont know what to say, that happens, you just haven't meet 'REAL' chinese girls...it's kind of a CULTURE, I would say it, but it takes time, and probably you couldnt get the point, as you put too much thought into what I said instead of reading it straight...
BTW, the home I mean, it's the Family Memebers, especially Parents and brothers and sisters. Not the apartment.
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Permalink Reply by David - 戴維在中國 on
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'REAL' chinese girls
Suggesting that they are not? Where would the majority be? If there are real as you suggest it also follows there are fake. Maybe everywhere has real and fake or more so here? Not taking the high horse but your comment so...
And the real home is populated by who? As China is a migrant country many, many families spend a lot of their time separated, and living in different city/province. I wonder how to maintain a real home when so many must venture far in order to sustain it financially.
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Permalink Reply by Freakboy on -
I think you will find that most of us who are here do not own a home back in our own countries, I don't own a home in Canada and in fact have never owned a home there, the one attempt at buying a home there was met with a fire days before I was ready to move into it but non the less I had all of my stuff in it anyway, so I figured me owning a home was bad karma. I lots the home and all my stuff and never spent one night in it.
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