We're sure many of you may have already heard about this post but we couldn't listen and not post about the Danwei dubbed "3 Million RMB foreign douchebag."
Apparently an expat male with delusions of being Donald Trump a la The Apprentice called into Sherpas and went off on the girl taking his order telling her she had a bad attitude and that he was going to teach her about manners. His 4 minute long lesson (he doesn't really get going until after the first minute) consisted of him telling her that she was a fucking bitch and that the Chinese were a race of rude people.
Wow, nothing's sexier than entitled, racist expat men. Can't wait to go out tonight and if we can meet any of these gems roaming the city. Yummy yummy.
We were going to post the audioclip here but the embedded link from Imeem didn't want to work with blogger and other than cut and paste, we're pretty much out of ideas. Click on the Danwei link if you want to hear the whole thing.
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I'm Chinese, and I would like to meet one of these racist expat men and teach them a thing or two about manners.
We reposted the audio as an mp3 at The Foreign Expert. Feel free to download it at http://www.theforeignexpert.com/media/theworstforeigner.mp3
The Chinese *are* rude people.
And I hope it is not without a tinge of irony that a blog bashing men living in China labels someone as racist.
Agagooga, you're an idiot for labeling an entire nation "rude" because of some isolated incidents you had in the city, you pretentious ignorant fuck.
If only you were as consistent with the owner of this blog...
中国人虽然有文化，但是没有文明。
When I visited Shanghai, signs encouraging polite/civilised behavior were everywhere to be found. It would be bizarre if they were targeted only at isolated individuals.
Culture shock in China | Rude, boorish behaviour | Shoving and spitting
http://www.chinese-culture.net/html/china_culture_shock.html
CBC News: Here they come: Chinese tourists
http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_yu/20060629.html
Are There Any Gentlemen in China?
http://www.teachabroadchina.com/chinese-men-manners-rude-polite/
Prestigious universities suffer rude tourist behavior- China
http://www.newsgd.com/travel/travelnews/content/2007-08/07/content_4221978.htm
Chinese tourists getting a bad image - International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/21/business/tourists.php
China Tells Tour Guides to Rein in Rude Tourists
http://www.china.org.cn/english/travel/179181.htm
Chinese tourists urged right manners abroad
http://english.sina.com/china/p/1/2006/0505/74840.html
If even the Chinese state recognises that its tourists are rude, it is curious how you are in denial.
Sure Gabriel, Chinese tourists have a reputation for rudeness. Is that of any great surprise? I can think of two types of people who go on these trips.
1. Rich but uneducated businessmen.
2. Middle class Chinese from the cities.
I would be very surprised if the latter were the ones causing complaints. Gabriel I am not in denial. I've lived in China for ten years, my relatives and friends are Chinese, I KNOW we are not a rude race. Yes, there is the occasional asshole. Shanghai is full of them. But most of this rudeness is simply lack of education. How do you expect these people to conform by western standards of mannerism? Widen your perspective, by all cultural and historical accounts the Chinese are arguably the most well-mannered race in the world. This short-sighted and paradoxical perspective perpetuated by foreigners in China is shockingly ironic.
Well, your claim is essentially unfalsifiable unless one goes to smaller towns and villages and does a study of rural/suburban China (and even then you can claim unrepresentativeness).
Having been to Shanghai and heard tales of it I know it is full of rude people. And for what it's worth, the PRCs who come to Singapore to live, work or study aren't polite either. Talking to PRCs in Singapore, one finds out the reason for this rudeness - in a large and crowded country, one has to fight very hard in order to get ahead. And I'm sure the Little Emperors being spoiled doesn't hurt either.
Claiming ethnocentrism doesn't work, not least because the traditional concept of the 君子 would hardly be considered rude in a western context.
"中国人为何无礼
中国人，的确应该为自己的无礼而羞愧。..
学者们绞尽脑汁，一说是人口太多造成的，但看看日本，真的是礼仪的典范，一说是文革造成的，看来这一条是原因。"
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