This is a sarcastic poll created by a Chinese netizen on one of the China’s largest social networking sites—Renren.com, which asks participants to vote for China’s most notorious phenomenon. The screenshot was taken 2 days after the poll started, and there were 11,196 participants by then. (Translated by Sandra for CDT):
Japan’s got the porn [industry], Cambodia’s got the Khmer Rouge, but what does the Celestial Empire have? Choose three of what you think are the most symbolic terms to represent China from the following:
1. Urban Management Cops *7363 (24%)*
2. Ditch Oil *1028 (3%)*
3. Tofu-dreg project *886 (2%)*
4. Income being in line with (African) standards *704 (2%)*
5. Housing prices being in line with (celestial) standards *3229 (10%)*
6. Three bottles of oil (China National Petroleum Corporation, China Petrochemical Corporation, and China National Offshore Oil Corporation) *424 (1%)*
7. The Celestial Empire Red Cross *357 (1%)*
8. Fifty cents *309 (1%)*
9. Stumbled women [a new term lately suggested by the Ministry of Public Security to be used in place of “prostitutes.”] *178 (<1%)*
10. National People’s Congress Representatives *1181 (3%)*
11. The Emperor Taizu [refers as Mao Zedong] *409 (1%)*
12. Brickspert *733 (2%)*
13. The shouting beasts [refers to professors] *345 (1%)*
14. Relevant department *6387 (21%)*
15. The masses who don’t understand the actual situation *1528 (5%)*
16. Peasant migrant workers *235 (<1%)*
17. Standing train tickets during the Spring Festival travel season *485 (1%)*
18. Forced demolition for administrative purposes *341 (1%)*
19. “Don’t use law as your shield.” *250 (<1%)*
20. Sensitive words *4010 (21%)*
