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That's a sign of disrespecting people. I don't know why a complete stranger trying to get notice.
Exactly, ignorance is everywhere.
you are right!
你好。just trying to annoy you. 😎
So, if i see you on the street , i should say bonjour instead but that's about all the french i know. Oui?
Oui la, ace!
Try say bonjour to me on the street, I will reply Nihao to you. :P :P
hahaha
haha... bonjour it shall be. :-)
maybe you should reply the guy with sawadee ka
Good idea, I will do that next time.
感觉有点轻浮挑戏的感觉。应该都是男生才会那样对你们吧。
女的也遇到过，那种十几岁小P孩，有次坐在街边唱 chin chang chong……
chin chang chong…… 《--这个不明白，是有什么特别的寓意吗？ XD
这就是他们想象中的中文，想想一群混混对你吹着口哨，唱着“chin chang chong”……
臭蛋混混。。 XD
it depends on the situation. Maybe they're just trying to be friendly ^_^.
Maybe. You really can tell if they are trying to be friendly or not.
Definitely! It's happened to me so many times here in the UK. It used to upset me and sometimes I'd respond as such, but now I don't even give it any of my time or energy.
Ignorance is everywhere, and in so many forms. I'd only try to educate people who'd say this to me, if I knew I'd see them again.
I think you are right, redrica! You even tried to educate them. Great initiative!
Maybe, the word "respect" is not being taught in their schools. Who knows??
"I don't know if any of you, my Steemit friends, also experience similar situation before."
Errrmmm... Every damn laowai out in China since the beginning of time? Well, maybe only since when China started opening up to the world again.
There's a lot of stupid idiots out there that somehow think that if they shout "Hello!" randomly at foreigners in the street that they will want to respond, even though they are strangers and don't know them at all. As adults, they should understand that this is not correct and proper behaviour.
Worse, yet there's stupid farmer grandparents that encourage their young children to behave in such way, possibly thinking that they're going to get a free private English tutor for them out of that brief cultural exchange. If anything, they're just making us feel guilty for rudely ignoring little kids because we're often too busy to talk to them.
Also, what makes certain types of Chinese people think that every single white foreigner in the world can even speak English? For some uneducated fools, white skin seems to equal American by default, but there's many other nation states in this big wide world, not just China and 'Waiguo.' If you travel to certain countries in Europe, you'll probably find it pretty difficult to find people who can speak English well.
As you mentioned when referring to the experiences of expats that you speak to on Facebook; you can probably now understand how foreigners have felt in China for years. Wonderful, isn't it?
For you, I'm guessing that it probably won't be the truly uneducated and dumb people shouting random ‘你好s' at you, the truly racist people will most likely just stick to the traditional 'Chinky' and dog eating jokes. What you'll probably find is that there will loads of fairly middle class, socially awkward, nerdy guys at universities with Asian princess fantasies/yellow fever that will somehow think that this is a good way to impress a Chinese girl.
They will fail to realise the fact that you've already probably had to study English for a few years to pass the IELTS/TOEFL exam in order to attend a foreign university. Unless, his Chinese is better than your English (which is highly unlikely), just speaking English and acting normal would probably be far more effective.
Then again, some of you Chinese ladies are often guilty of similar behaviour yourselves, aren't you? (Sorry!)
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Hey, strayenglishman. Thanks for your commenting and expressing your feelings. It's always nice to hear experiences from others. I totally understand your situation.
I was accompanying my Belgian friends to travel to China and got many stares and requests of taking pictures together with my friends. Even me can feel annoying. I had many expat back home before but yes now I can feel their anger a bit more after living abroad. But I'm not one of expats in China so I could never imagine how many this sort of situations ever happened to you.
I understand your mixed feeling with China. I'm a victim of racism myself. Regarding the ones ( Asian princess fantasies/yellow fever), nuh, most of those who shout Nihao to me were more of either teenagers or lower educated ones.
Thanks for mentioning the effort of us learning English, it was not easy if you are familiar with China's English education. I'm doing my studies mainly in Dutch though.
Have a good day!
种族歧视真是是没办法，根深蒂固了。
哎，一想想没办法就难过。一般那种混混和十几岁小屁孩最厉害。虽然道理都知道不跟这种人一番计较，但是遇到了还是不爽。
i get a bit annoyed too when people do that to me on the streets. in fact they do it to anyone who has an asian face! I have a friend who is half Thai half Indian and she still gets people saying "ni hao" to her 🙄
Even to your friend...They truly need to reach a certain ignorance level to do that.
有些你好是明显带有调戏的那种的，或者小屁孩没礼貌的那种。遇到这种。。。我一般都会用一个V开头的意大利语回他们。。有没有觉得一个人在国外待久了，胆子越来越大。。
是，我有一次心情不好还用中指问候过，一般他们对此措手不及。哈哈哈，有的时候真不能软。
一个女生还是要注意安全。
嗯嗯，谢谢你！
十几年前我来欧洲，他们会用日语跟我打招呼。现在没有了。我觉得这从某一方面来说也是好事，是中国对世界影响力提高了。
乐观的看法！O(∩_∩)O哈哈~
i m from pakistan what is the meaning of nihao....would u like to tell mee
ching chong肯定算
现在nihao也能算了？
真是不理解这个世界了
花招越来越多
他们会不会只是想显示一下他们会中文？
他们就会个Nihao，还有一个碰到个人说Mihao，我还一时以为他在喊他家的猫呢！
我也是理解不了他们的心理了，不过你在外国一定要注意安全！
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As an expat, and speaking primarily in English to the people I meet, I've had a lot of:
"I'm from France"
.... uuuuhhh no, I'm not your monkey (that's not very nice for monkeys. sorry monkeys)
I do have to admit that China can be a bit tough sometimes as a foreigner. The repeated "Hello's" and "Can I take a photo with you?" are intense - to say the least.
I think the best attitude to have is to have fun with it. Find a few replies that make you giggle or have a friendly/quick question for them in their language. It will usually leave them pretty stunned as they probably did not expect it, no need to wait for their answer, just let them ponder and watch their perception of you slowly alter
Great advice! :D
Beautyful post! All the things you say here are Amazing!
這就跟台灣有點像,總是想要跟外國人說英文,後來才發現,不少外國人覺得不被尊重, 心情是:我努力的在這裡學了中文,我想用中文對話,結果你還是硬要跟我用英文?!
恩 所以我现在碰见能说中文的外国人都会和他们说中文
是的,得尊重對方啊~
是的，我在这里学荷兰语也经常有这样的困扰，很多人习惯用英文跟我们外国人聊天。但是我是真的想练习啊……所以如果他们会中文，跟他们说中文很好。
沒錯!! 要尊重人家的需求!! :D