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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Do Chinese really feel discriminated against when they go out of China?
A Chinese friend of mine has recently gone out of China to 2-3 separate countries recently, for the first time in her life.
When she came back, she told me of a few instances she'd interpreted as her being victim of discrimination. One of them was getting a "harsh treatment" and "harsh questions" from the immigration officer at the Canadian customs, other times getting charged for something at the airport that locals didn't. In the street, she also told me she sometimes felt looked down upon. There were other cases that I forget.
Reason I forget is because none of these really seemed like discrimination to me. Isn't a lot more likely that many Chinese going abroad suffer from a fear of the unknown?
After all, all they've ever known is China and the Chinese way of doing and dealing with things. Add to that the tension and antagonism disseminated by both foreign and Chinese media, and would it really be a stretch for Chinese going abroad to be naturally suspicious? To almost expect discrimination?
Welcome to how we feel when in China sometimes to your friend.
You are right all they have known is China and the Chinese way. Some think life is like how i met your mother, friends or some other tv show from the west and when they go there they see it is different.
From an Australian point of view I do hold some angst against other nations living in Australia and look down on them. In Sydney for example go to Chatswood, Eastwood all asian communities and not mixing with other people same with Indians (Parramatta) and Lebanese (Bankstown).
For the airport situation some of them dont travel frequently enough to know rules or laws. Seen people argue at quarantine about brining plants and food into the country then saying after they get the harsh treatment because of quarantine laws.
1) They feel oppressed in their own country. Talking to them is like being on some reserve with twelve people that's about to get bulldozed for a highway. They're so goddamn hard done by and everyone does them wrong and they're the innocent victims of everyone.
2) If it's any consolation, last time I went to Canada, the immigration officer grilled me for over an hour about what was in my bag, seemingly going through every possible illegal thing one could possibly take into Canada, while annoyingly ignoring my request that he just search through my bag and have it done with. They're a bunch of bastards.
3) Nobody in foreign countries gives a shit about face, and if you have most fashion haircut and most fashion iPad, most people wont notice, and few will give you the kind of special treatment that gets you in China. Chinese, who've been brainwashed into thinking that the whole earth has runs on "anti-Chinese bias", naturally assume that this is a continuation of the oppression the poor innocent Chinese receive at the hand of the wicked foreign devil. Likewise, they get used to bullying foreigners in China, and when they realize no one outside China gives a shit either way about their "geneticar superiority" or x-thousanda year historyyyy, and they're too outnumbered to carry out their god given right to bully non-Chinese, they get pissed off because they realize that living in a foreign country is nothing like all the times they scored proud national victories by pushing foreign teachers into submission at English corners. CURTURAR DIFFERENCE