Obscene English T-shirts in China
Today I saw my friend wearing a T-shirt that had lots of English words written all over it. I read some of them and was very surprised at what they said. I asked my friend if she knew what it meant, and she said no.
Basically speaking, the shirt was covered in words that referenced genitals, pubic hair, slang for having sex, and so on.
I don't think it's my place to tell people what they can and can't wear, and I believe in free speech, however I find it odd that companies in China would want to make a shirt like this that just has a bunch of random curse words and sexual references. I think at the very least they should put a warning on it just in case someone decides to wear their shirt in an English speaking country and they don't want to get stared at.
One time I saw an old lady wearing a shirt that says something like 'slut' on it.
So what do you think about this kind of phenomenon?
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You are perfectly right. A lot of celebrities have brought themselves trememdous humiliation by wearing this kind of T-shirt in pulic. Last week, I bought a T-shirt which has " dress or nude" on it. I wasn't aware of that when I purchased it. When I found out, I just couldn't wear it.
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Kiwi I have to disagree with you. Firstly, interest in Asian writing is not limited to America. And even within Asia, the writing of other languages besides English can be considered cool and be “romanticized" as you put it. A good example of this is Korean Hangul used in China.
Secondly, as far as 'clean' messages go, generally most things you can buy in non Asian countries which feature Asian writing are almost always just single Chinese characters such as 'ai' for love, 'li' for power/strength, and so on. Of course products such as clothing are made with 'unclean' messages but that is absolutely not my point, because that could be true of any language group.
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I think it works both ways. Americans romanticize anything with chinese/japanese characters on it, and they are not always "clean" messages
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In shanghai i saw some young guys wore such kind of t shirt, i think they know the meaning.at first i was surprised. Then i get used to. We have a slang: when the forest is big, all kinds of birds will occur.
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haha a little funny, like my friend who wears a shirt with all different writings of 'come' on it.. Where do they get these shirts from and would I wear a shirt with Chinese writing on it if I did not know what it meant?? Probably not.
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