When you travel around China, you come into contact with the local population. You come into no less contact with other tourists. What people who have not been to China do not realize is that when talking of other tourists in China, the vast majority of them are Chinese! Subjectively, it feels as if internal tourism eclipses that of foreigners by several magnitudes. Over time, you get to know different types of Chinese tourists. As a generalization, one can group them into several caregories, depending on personality, economic status and reaction to other foreign tourists. Here are a few of the types, which I've had the pleasure of encountering: The Indifferent and sometimes Passively Hostile tourist - Middle aged, middle class and feels that you're trespassing on his Middle Kingdom. Has a tendency to take his
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