{"id":156069,"date":"2013-05-15T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=156069"},"modified":"2014-01-03T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T22:17:00","slug":"phrase-of-the-week-compare-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/05\/phrase-of-the-week-compare-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrase of the Week: Compare Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The\u00a0<a title=\"Posts tagged with word of the week\" href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/word-of-the-week\/\" rel=\"tag\">Word of the Week<\/a>\u00a0comes from China Digital Space\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/space\/Introduction_to_the_Grass-Mud_Horse_Lexicon\">Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon<\/a>, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China\u2019s online \u201cresistance discourse,\u201d used to mock and subvert the official language around censorship and political correctness.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_156070\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dad4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156070\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156070\" alt=\"Left: \u201cMy dad is a director!\u201d Right: \u201cMy dad is a section chief!\u201d\" src=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dad4.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-156070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: \u201cMy dad is a director!\u201d Right: \u201cMy dad is a section chief!\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/space\/Compare_fathers\">\u62fc\u7239 (p\u012bn di\u0113): compare fathers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This term is a product of the growing disparity between the rich and poor in a society with limited social mobility. Instead of competing based on ability or academic accomplishments, many feel that \u201ccomparing fathers\u201d gives a more accurate prediction of future success.<\/p>\n<p>Many Chinese young people with powerful fathers are known as <a title=\"Rich second generation\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/space\/Rich_second_generation\">rich second generation<\/a>. In the past few years, there have been many incidents of rich second generation youths relying on their fathers\u2019 wealth or power to avoid taking responsibility for their wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Most famously, in 2010, Li Qiming drove drunk and ran over a college student, killing her. When he exited the car, he famously declared, \u201c<a title=\"My father is Li Gang\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/space\/My_father_is_Li_Gang\">My father is Li Gang<\/a>,\u201d and asked who dared sue him. His declaration later became one of the year\u2019s most viral Internet memes. More recently, Li Tianyi, the son of a general in the People\u2019s Liberation Army, <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/02\/generals-son-detained-in-connection-with-gang-rape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">was arrested for his involvement in a gang rape<\/a>; it was widely believed that the younger Li felt he could get away with such acts because of his father\u2019s status and wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Many Chinese who \u201ccompare fathers\u201d do not do so in such a criminal way; they merely enjoy some preferential treatment and have more opportunities than those without connections. However, when young people like Li Qiming and Li Tianyi \u201ccompare fathers,\u201d they are often described as being \u5751\u7239 k\u0113ng di\u0113, or \u201cfather-hurting,\u201d a term originally used to refer more broadly to unsatisfactory circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Word of the Week\u00a0comes from China Digital Space\u2019s\u00a0Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China\u2019s online \u201cresistance discourse,\u201d used to mock and subvert the official language around censorship and political correctness. \u62fc\u7239 (p\u012bn di\u0113): compare fathers This term is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":991,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,2,14748,14744,100,5,4202],"tags":[14478,14780,14803,15153],"class_list":["post-156069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-economy","category-gmh","category-level-2-article","category-politics","category-society","category-translation","tag-li-gang","tag-li-tianyi","tag-rich-second-generation","tag-word-of-the-week","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.7 (Yoast SEO v23.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Phrase of the Week: Compare Fathers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/05\/phrase-of-the-week-compare-fathers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Phrase of the Week: Compare Fathers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The\u00a0Word of the Week\u00a0comes from China Digital Space\u2019s\u00a0Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. 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