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Old 04-25-2008, 05:41 PM
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What's happening in China
Chinese media, marketing, advertising, and urban life - Danwei
This site is run by a bunch of gweilos in China, with front page stories from Chinese media translated everyday. So if you're interested in what's happening in modern China, this might be a good source.

EastSouthWestNorth Blog
This is another one, run by Chinese though. Besides news articles, there are translated blog posts as well.
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Old 04-26-2008, 01:35 AM
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Gweilos? That's not nice.
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Old 04-26-2008, 04:36 AM
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Gweilo? 鬼佬？ ooooh, a convenient title.
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Old 04-26-2008, 04:50 AM
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Why is it convinient? It's pretty bad in zhong guo nan fang.
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Old 04-26-2008, 09:04 AM
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Gweilos? That's not nice.
No, it's not. At least, not anymore. All my gweilo friends call themselves that. In the north, it's laowai.

Westerner and waiguoren are too formal for casual chitchats.
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Old 04-26-2008, 01:26 PM
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I've never seen laowai as similar at all to gweilo.
Laowai is a lot more respectful.
It'll be strange if in Canada we would call anybody a foreigner, or an old outsider, or a white ghost.....
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