There is a US comic strip called "Mallard Fillmore" (the name of the duck star of the strip, a name derived from the name of the US president Millard Fillmore), which takes a right-wing, pro-Republican view of politics, and gets about 500 comments every day, fighting between Democrat readers who detest the strip and Republican readers who love the strip. The two groups fight every day, and say as much as they can, given the editorial restriction on the language allowed in comments. (All comments must written, so the shouting matches are just using lots of ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.)
Which brings me to the PRC, where I can't read the comic strips, all of which are in Chinese, nor can I understand the fierce fights that take place on their mobile phones, with the two sides of a debate I cannot understand screaming at each other.
The 'discussions' frequently degenerate into profanity, and one of the worst curses one can level at an opponent is 'Beautiful dog,' in Chinese 美狗。
I have no idea why this is the case, since I don't understand a word of Chinese, but being around Chinese people, I have to listen to the fierce fights over subjects I do not understand.
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