{"id":1465,"date":"2014-01-13T06:03:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T06:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digmandarin.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=1465"},"modified":"2016-06-26T07:27:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T07:27:39","slug":"humble-brag-battle-china","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.digmandarin.com\/all-video-lessons\/humble-brag-battle-china","title":{"rendered":"The Humble Brag Battle in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Aj5nIYISOMM\" 'frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs color=&#8221;blue&#8221;][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Notes&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1466765207314-957f075d-6d35&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<strong>\u8c26\u865a<\/strong>(Qi\u0101nx\u016b, humble)<br \/>\n<strong>\u81ea\u5938<\/strong>(Z\u00ecku\u0101, brag)<br \/>\n  [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Expanded Knowledge&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1466765207383-ec5d35a4-ffd8&#8243;][vc_column_text]  <\/p>\n<h2>Humble or Brag?<\/h2>\n<p>Humility should be a very important virtue in many Asian cultures. Yet Asian parents always felt like the betting booth of a horse race. And the children, the race horses that were being bet on, under a superficial sheen of nicety.<br \/>\nThis is often at odds with the belief held by most parents that their kid, for all his or her faults, is the center of the universe. There are many types of humble bragging. Some examples: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to take a week off from work because my spoiled daughter wants to visit all the universities she got accepted into, but at least I hear New Haven and Cambridge are both lovely this time of year.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter\u2019s so fat. She\u2019s been eating through her anxiety since she got selected to compete in the semi-finalist round of the Intel Science Talent Search. I told her, it\u2019s only semi-, take that cookie out of your mouth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe told our son to take a break in between studying for his AP exams but he refused to listen to us. He got perfect scores on all six of them, so that just gives him yet another excuse to be a brat.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Some humble brags are a little bit more subtle, but an objective observer can usually see where they are going:<br \/>\n\u201cMy daughter\u2019s skin is so tanned and coarse and her shoulders are brawny like a man\u2019s.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Translation: \u201cDid I tell you that my daughter broke a statewide record in the 200-meter butterfly? I didn\u2019t? Well, did I tell you about the scholarship? DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THE SCHOLARSHIP?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked my daughter to come home for Christmas but she\u2019d rather fly to Taiwan to meet her boyfriend\u2019s grandparents. I broke my back to raise her and this is the thanks I get in return.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Translation: \u201cMy daughter\u2019s not marrying a white guy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy kid doesn\u2019t really work that hard. She just kind of coasts along\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Translation: \u201c\u2026 on her natural talent, which she inherited from me.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It seems that Asian parents Pretend to be humble but brag about their kids\u2019 achievement. The truth is : we&#8217;re in a brave new world of bragging, people. Everyone does it everywhere! Facebook, Twitter, the Internet in general. <\/p>\n<p>So looking at it from a different angle, I prefer to believe that Asian parents never totally taken humble as brag, maybe they simply hoped to brighten the future of kids and they just could think of no better way to encourage their kids.<br \/>\n  [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese or Asian moms make the best humble braggers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1467,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Humble Brag Battle in China<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chinese or Asian moms make the best humble braggers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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