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China, themselves, chicken feet, spitting, English t-shirts, traveling to Tibet (does not apply to Tibetan people), bicycles, arm sleeve protectors, karaoke, talking on the phone really loudly, disobeying traffic laws, giving toasts, squatting, drinking warm water, sex boots, cigarettes,
baijiu 白酒, 'Hey Jude' and 'Hotel California, hating the Japanese, working, saying 'I'm fine thanks and you?', construction sites,
Da Shan 大山, short hair, the Olympics, jewish people, basketball, red hats, linguistic puns, tea, claiming their province has the best spicy food, burning coal, pop music, skin whitening cream, haggling, long pinky-nails, 'hello kitty' phone charms, tea, the Houston Rockets, oily food, atheism, MSN & QQ, Mickey Mouse, 4-character
cheng yu 成语, large tour groups, chanting slogans, huge banners on the street, jade, whiskey & green tea, massages (with or without 'happy endings'), Westlife, the thumbs up, enormous street maps, messing with their kid, wearing a suit to climb mountains, employing too many people, same-sex hand-holding, staring at
laowai 老外, cow stomach, bamboo scaffolding, CCTV, caligraphy, Deng Xiaoping 邓小平, the Olympics, talking with their mouths full, dramatic women, anything western, silk socks, nationalism, the number 8, going to packed places, eating polluted fish, screaming at waiters, taking the exact same picture in front of every little thing, making sure everyone is the same, cooking oil, buying houses, not avoiding other people, slurping noodles, making up Chinese words for foreign names, wasting food, fighting to get on the bus, soup as late-night drunk food, winning arguments, thinking the West is trying to keep them down, breathing in heavy polluted air while claiming mountain air is unhealthy, man-purses, telling you how good your Chinese is, cutting lines, kung fu 功夫, "jew's ear", shirtless men, bagged meat, honking their horns at everything, bathrooms stalls with no walls, sauna's, tiny stools, yelling
ha-llo and laughing, red, asking if you've eaten yet, wearing pajamas all day, self-censoring, neon, the Olympics, any kind of food on a stick, scapegoating, hairless men, auspicious numbers, tiny sandals, pirating goods, conformity, assuming all foreigners are English speakers, Pizza Hut, ping pong, propaganda, chopsticks, their economy, big bowls of fruit at nightclubs, failing to notice irony, pandas, welcoming you into their store, spitting sunflower seeds on the floor, misquoting Confucious, listening to loud music on their cell phones, one-syllable grunt responses, picking their teeth after a meal, Chinese songs with pretentious English lyrics them, holding their girlfriends' purse, ritual, psychologically repressing 1949-1976, the phrase "Tibet was, is and always will be part of China," toilet paper, trains, referring to their rubbing alcohol as "wine", rolling their shirt up over their belly button, dialects, camo-gear,
re nao 热闹, Winnie the Pooh, hiding from the sun, teasing animals, bathroom attendants, 1 Country - 2 Systems, the peace sign, their 'harmonious society', fireworks,
mahjjong 麻将, street food, calisthenics in the park (but only if you're 60 or older), mountains with stairs, long underwear, concrete, 'Reeb' beer, the Olympics, talking about all the opportunities there are in China, practicing their English, ordering far more than you can eat, littering, whore-mongering, talking openly about money/people's appearances or even diarrhea, service industries, propaganda, giving wrong directions, knockoff DVD's, tiny dogs, electric scooters, not smiling for pictures, passionately believing China will rise again to take its rightful place in the world, and of course, China
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Bobb in Shanghai
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Only a few of these I haven't noticed. But I don't see any that I think are wrong! ~Bobb in Shanghai