Thursday, June 26, 2003

Foreigner's T-shirt Advice Raises Hackles

Advice T-shirt

A foreigner in Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu Province, enraged local people for wearing a T-shirt that carried "10 admonishments to Chinese." Locals said their national self-esteem was hurt and asked the foreigner to remove the T-shirt and apologize.

The admonishments included "Do not stare at foreigners," "Do not say 'hello' or 'OK' (in English) to foreigners," "Allow foreigners to check in at inexpensive hotels," "Charge foreigners the same as Chinese" and "Do not change foreign currency from foreigners." [link]


Here is a link for some tips on Chinese ettiquette.

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