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Q: Do Chinese fear you?
Do you get the sense sometimes if you make a sudden movement, Chinese people around you will flinch.
I'm the nicest guy around, but in the bus or the metro, when we're all packed, as I tower over them and they avoid making eye contact, all it would take is for me to utter a word and the hordes would cower in fear.
I guess it's just a height/muscle/skin color trio combo. Free power trip.
I think you may be right. I am just an average size schmoe and the best I get is a giggle from the girls when I walk by.
Do Chinese fear me? Only when i'm wearing my Darth Vadar outfit and riding my bull.
Xpat.John:
"And I looked, and behold a pale bovine: and his name that sat on him was Darth, and Laowai followed with him. And power was given unto them over the Middle Kingdom of the earth, to kill with white skin, and with sex appeal, and with Darth, and with the Laowai of the earth."
mArtiAn:
Yeh, don't start getting all religious on me, ok? I know that passage, 'And there came a pale man, upon a pale horse, and his name was Geof', i've read the Bible, thank you.
Xpat.John:
Really? I thought his name was Herb and he came for tea. I too read the Eddie Izzard version of the bible.
giadrosich:
Hehehe. I can just hear it; "Mao...I'm you're father!" "Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!" or would that be "Bu xinggggggggggggggggggg!!!!!!"
I'm "serious" size bear, but in crowd I "move with the flow", so I never experienced that somebody afraid of me
but size gives some respect too - once some blokes giggles and obviously made a jokes of me over my back. turn around and "smile" was enough to achieve some nice quiet journey in that bus...
also in office there are visible difference
I usually sit with one of departments that have free desk.
Yesterday we were looking for dead mouse or rat, that was "somewhere".
Two of my colleagues tried to move big bookstand with files... with great effort and no effect. I moved it with ease...
so Yes. size difference gives some respect, but if You act normally - no fear 
I am only 5' 10" and 170lbs but most locales will avoid me like the plague especially if I have a pissed off look on my face....but ya know what...no one has ever attempted to rob me.
I think it's a mixture of curiosity and fear...who is this foreign giant? (I joke)...I live in a city filled with munchkin migrant workers.
Yep, 'cause I'm ugly AND mean!
giadrosich:
People who don't know me think so because they say, "Uh uh! Someone that ugly can't be nice!!" Small children run away...fast! Ladies avert their eyes! Gentlemen thank their lucky stars!
mArtiAn:
That's not.........actually...........you.....in the picture.........is it?
Oh dear sweet God, you poor poor man. Like the moustache though. UNDERLAY UNDERLAY REEPA REEPA!
Depend of circumstance, we both fear 
each other, certainly...
Riding the bus, nobody will dare to sit down beside me (even if I am at the window seat). With the exception of the elderly.
My mother in law tells my husband about me: "she used to scare me and other women in the village when she got angry but we've gotten used to her by now!" Yeah, thanks, ma'.
And you ladies used to piss me off tremendously whenever you'd try to take control of the way I raise my son but...no, wait, you people still piss me off.
One time a young provincial woman (20's) turned and seen me standing next to her at a bus stop in bum-fk nowhere. She went 'yaaaahhhhhh' and ran away a few feet. Hard to explain, but waaaay funny and something definitely right out of a 'B' movie, except this was real. 
Xpat.John:
I have had similar things. But it is normally small children pointing and crying. Or old people making religious hand gestures before backing away. One of my friends said it has something to do with my Romney mask, but I don't think that was it.
The women fear my dick. Funny as hell, older women will lift it up (I'm wearing jeans) and say something and younger ones run away.Ha ha , I love China, I'm a stallion here.
