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Comment by ianstallings | Hacker News Reader

Dude, rent-a-foreigner is not the preferred nomenclature. Models that serve, please.

Edit: I guess I'm supposed to have a serious response to this. Uhm, I don't have one. This is bat shit insane and should be mocked and laughed at. Not discussed and analyzed. Or better yet, how about we talk about how goddam offensive this is.

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These Chinese landlords are treating objects like women, man!

Indeed, my very first thought was "lol racism".

There's no need for cultural sensitivity here -- shit is straight-up racist.

It's funny because it's inverted though in that the Chinese doing it think whites are better than Chinese, for business promotion at any rate. I'm not sure treating 'the other' well is the same type of problem as treating them crappily.

I don't think that Chinese would think of racist here.

It's the same as American companies hiring "token minorities" to look better and more diverse.

I disagree -- hiring a minority employee almost always means hiring a person who is qualified to do a job and who will work hard for a salary (sounds like hiring a non-minority).

This is hiring a model temporarily. Anywhere in the world, hiring a model is explicitly hiring more for appearance and less for skills.

Has the whole world gone crazy?

Was it ever sane?

How about hiring strippers for a funeral?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/24...

(the reason is that the funeral is regarded more as a goodbye party for the deceased than a mourning ceremony for the ones left behind)

> How about hiring strippers for a funeral?

Most funerals I've been too really did need something to liven them up.

1/3 of funerals in Taiwan still involve strippers.

Are you serious? It's just like "renting" a model for a day.

(His original quote is a play on a line from "The Big Lebowski" - I don't think he means it.)

I haven't seen The Big Lebowski so you could well be right, but are you possibly thinking of Ocean's XX (can't remember which number) instead?

I'm absolutely thinking of "The Big Lebowski". Source/clip of the scene in question below. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYOzUHnPJvU

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