The Garden of Eden, Chinese Style.

Living in Singapore, as I do, in the midst of the Asian world, I sometimes hear things I very much doubt I would hear in London, where I used to live, for instance.

Today, I heard something reputedly to be heard on the tongues of Westernized Chinese people.

The remark in itself is both funny and revealing of the culture that speaks it - though I will leave you to think about what it reveals.

Now, Adam and Eve are usually portrayed as Caucasians, in most accounts. However, what if it were different? I heard, today, that it is said, that if Adam and Eve had been Chinese that we would all still be living in the Garden of Eden - because the Chinese would not have spoken to the snake - they would have eaten it.

I thought it was hilarious.

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