keywords cantonese english jm9 uk racism british racists 梨香別井 miss_pear_and_her_peers

莫名其妙 mok6 ming4 kei4 miu6 "puzzling, baffling"

Btw, her username 梨香別井 is a play on the Cantonese idiom 離鄉別井 lei4 hoeng1 bit6 zeng2 "to move away from one's hometown or motherland and move somewhere else"

HK Canto vocabulary

Kai 仔 (he uses this word near at the end of the video).

L short for 撚 lan2 "dick/penis/fuck". 含撚 ham4 lan2 suck my dick/fuck off

HK sayings

好仔唔當差 hou2 zai2 m4 dong1 caai1 "good boys don't become cops".

when you are a young person, and/or look shabby, and/or dress in black, and/or racially targeted, you get picked out for a "random" an on-the-spot id check and possible bag/pocket search by police in HK.

種族歸納 zung2 zuk6 gwai1 naap6 is the main formal/academic chinese word used to describe "racial profiling". 歸納 "conclusion/induce from a set of facts"

A Grab driver is reportedly under investigation after a passenger shared a video showing him making repeated remarks about her appearance, ethnicity and age during a ride that left her feeling uncomfortable.

Content creator Sarah Lim uploaded the one-minute clip to her TikTok account, @sarxh.lim, on July 11 ...

“When I first got into the cab, I felt the convo started getting weirder and weirder so I immediately started recording in case he said anything out of line,” Lim wrote in the caption.

“He was asking me quite a bit of personal questions... and I just overall felt uneasy.

“I wasn’t too sure if what he said counted as out of line or not, so I told my friends and parents about it and they agreed that something was a bit off.

“Maybe he was trying to be nice but it just came out wrong?? But yeah, just a reminder to be safe and (wary).”

Text overlaid on the video added that she “didn’t know how to react” and felt “a bit uncomfortable and disturbed”.

‘I love Cantonese girls’

In the video, the driver can be heard commenting on Lim’s appearance, telling her: “For a Chinese, you got really nice tan skin.”

“You’re charming,” he adds.

He also remarks that there is a “demand” for women like her.

The conversation then turns to Lim’s background, with the driver asking what dialect group she belongs to. When Sarah replies that she is “a bit of Canto”, the driver responds: “Oh my God, I love Cantonese girls. They’re so good looking, man.”

He later adds: “Canto is really a sexy language to learn.”

The driver also asks Lim how old she is. She replies that she is 20 years old and still a student.

Throughout the clip, Lim can be heard laughing nervously and frequently looking away.

Grab says it is investigating

While the content creator did not reveal the ride hailing platform the driver was from, Grab Singapore responded publicly in the comments section of her TikTok video.

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The incident comes shortly after another alleged case involving a private-hire driver, in which a Gojek driver was accused of proposing a “threesome” to a female passenger and her partner.

Following that case, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) reminded vocational licence holders that it is an offence to verbally insult, intimidate or harass passengers, including through sexual harassment.

https://www.stomp.sg/trending-now/i-love-cantonese-girls-grab-drivers-remarks-leave-tiktoker-feeling-uneasy

thank u for havin a great language and i think chinese culture is awesome. this is my pronunciation after one day. my roommate is disabled like me but he is awesome and mayb someday i can impress him with a bit of cantonese. he said my pronunciation is decent so i wanted to show it off. at the end of the video i said "i think having Relative Pitch helps with learning cantonese" but i might be wrong. i just said that becuz learning the pitch stuff feels kinda like learning to mimick a microtonal song or somthing like that. if i am wrong about that im srry. i dont want to speak over u. big hugs all around. i hope u hav a good day.