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Yellow fever?

August 14th, 2006 · 3 Comments

If the perjorative term to describe the peculiar affliction suffered by a person of European or American descent who dates exclusively people from Asia is “Yellow Fever,” would the corresponding ‘diagnosis’ for an Asian who dates a lot of white people be 白血病 (baixuebing)?

Just wondering.

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3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 yajun // Aug 14, 2006 at 1:06 pm

    Yellow fever is just a fever, but Baixuebing is fatal. It is not good!

  • 2 花崗齋之愚公 // Aug 14, 2006 at 6:58 pm

    Um, yellow fever is (was) one of the deadliest of the tropical diseases…What does that mean?

  • 3 yajun // Aug 15, 2006 at 8:14 am

    That means I should warn all of my friends to keep themselves away from white (guys), because they are so charming that they can kill the Chinese (girls).:)

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