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Sounds like you are suggesting something on the order of two rights to make a wrong...it wasn't a situation in which to start a debate, much less and argument.
Exactly. For one thing, I needed to get to Gatwick on time.
I didn't take offense at his perception, but rathercI found it interesting. And since he lived in London, maybe he wasn't all that keen on his homeland, either.
Also interesting is that local people in tourist destinations popular with Chinese will say the exact same thing, everywhere from The Philippines to Hawaii to Thailand. My wife and I were sitting chatting with a shop owner in Taiwan earlier this year and he was pointing out the Chinese tourists standing around the hotel across the street, bunch of guys standing there with their shirts bunched up to their chest so their bellies could cool off. He said (loosely translated) that mainland Chinese tourists lacked culture.
Many Chinese tourists are so loud, it doesn't matter if it is 5:30 am if they have two rooms opposite each other they'll have both doors open shouting back and forth. They spit a lot, they smoke in places that are non-smoking, they completely ignore if someone else is waiting for something and will just shove their way in. I've been waiting at a street vendor for the person in front of me to pay and had 6 Chinese women just crowd in front. Elevator opens they aren't waiting for people to exit, just start pushing in. We've been in planes where as soon as wheels touch ground several older Chinese people are standing up to get their bags down, right on the runway and despite the lady saying in Mandarin over and over for them to sit the hell down until it stops at the gate.
Of course this isn't all of them, and even the ones I'm talking about are really nice people if you get to talking to them it is just a cultural thing.
That is just how the Chinese are. It's not rudeness. They have no concept of waiting in line. My dd was living there for a year. She took a bus trip somewhere on a tour. Everyone had a ticket with an assigned seat, and when the bus came, they STILL pushed and shoved one another to get on first.
She took a subway to work, and sometimes she would get annoyed enough at the pushing and shoving that she would yell, "when are you all going to learn to behave like civilized people on public transportation?" I asked her what the reaction was, and she laughed said "Shock that the tall blonde American was fluent in Mandarin."
Love that song and the video. They used the song on an episode of Person of Interest when the CIA was trying to kill Reese, who had been one of their own.
Hahahahaha how did you know I had changed it to "in"?
Yes, in NJ we wait ON line. I was trying to conform.
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Love that song and the video. They used the song on an episode of Person of Interest when the CIA was trying to kill Reese, who had been one of their own.
