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Q: What can i do if i get involved in a fight?
It is the first time that happens to me in China and in my life. Yesterday I went to buy some fruit to the convenient store in front of my house around 2330 at night, i was walking and smoking a cigarrete and I just met this kind of guys who drives an illegal taxi, he started to talk to me in Chinese. I just didn,t say any word, he kept saying that he could take me wherever i want i told him I live in front of the store and i don,t need his services. When i was about to cross the road i heard that says ， gen laowai goutong bu liao and started to laugh. I know my chinese is not perfect but standard conversations can understand. I couldn,t put up with it anymore and I went back and told hm really angry i can understand you very well and maybe my chinese is better than yours. Then he started hitting me, and another friend of him came and also started to hit me. In the end i could leave.
very simple: DON'T GET INVOLVED IN A FIGHT! Just keep walking. Whatever the intial cause, you will not win.
Scandinavian:
are you sure ? http://beijingcream.com/2013/03/laowai-comics-movies-vs-reality-chinese-fight-version/ I do agree with your advice though, but sometimes joking about stuff makes it easier to forget there is a lesson to be learnt
very simple: DON'T GET INVOLVED IN A FIGHT! Just keep walking. Whatever the intial cause, you will not win.
Scandinavian:
are you sure ? http://beijingcream.com/2013/03/laowai-comics-movies-vs-reality-chinese-fight-version/ I do agree with your advice though, but sometimes joking about stuff makes it easier to forget there is a lesson to be learnt
You 'show off' your 'flawless' ability to speak Chinese to Native Chinese?
You are guest in China, so behave accordingly!
By the way, my students always say to me: 'Your eyes are blue!' When I look in the mirror, I see 'green'!
Your eyes must be blue, too?
Run unless you can fight like Jason Statham. If so then wait for 30 more to make it a fair fight.
icnif77:
He didn't fight! He was 'boxing promoter'
'Brick top' and 'pigs'….. & 'Turkish'
TedDBayer:
I've only seen Chinese hit like girls, and what are you going on about?
icnif77:
Movie 'Snatch', of course. Stratham is 'Turkish', boxing promoter.
icnif77:
Recommended! Very funny flick in 2000, with (most) of US actors performing as UK residents.
TedDBayer:
If you try to win, you will loose, they won't fight you one on one, they'll call out and you'll be fighting a mob of them, if you beat all of them up and the police come, then you will really loose.
bill8899:
WHAT? You have NOT seen SNATCH?!?!?
See it, STAT! It's for your own good!
Or, it's just a good movie.
TedDBayer:
Vin Diesel is a poof, really, he looks as tough as Tom Cruise
Being somewhat outnumbered i'd avoid it in future. If you've just got yourself to look out for, then no problem, but if you've got family and loved ones here, you'd do better to rise above it because, as much as I find the Chinese to be pretty easy going and not prone to initiating violence on the whole, if they feel they've lost face they can be get real nasty. I mean animalistic nasssty.
I agree with some of Martian's comments above with a few exceptions.
I do not find them truly easy-going at all. I find them really ready for a good squabble, just waiting for the occasion. Remember, please, squabble = RMB = money = rich foreigner paying a lot of money = rich foreigner chucked out of China. As a foreigner, you will never, ever, ever win nor be vindicated.
As for Martian's animalistic nassty comment, I concur. In that sense, when they are in a vengeful mood, they can make the Godfather look like a nice, old, harmless Long Island grandfather.
And the rules of "face" around here so caveat emptor as to be totally never understood by the laowai.
well,, my knife is always right by my right hand.... fair fight is an old idea from older western societies. asia and places will kill u dead anyway they can,,, especially from behind.... they are at heart cowards. 1 in a 100 would fight u one-on-one in a ring (I mean non-professional 1 in a 100)
Your story sounds like BS. Where are you from? Are you teaching English?
" Then he started hitting me, and another friend of him came and also started to hit me. In the end i could leave. "
Maybe that's why teaching English requires so much effort on your part that you would feel exploited.
PS: I mean no harm to qualified non-native speakers, this guy must be trying to give expats a bad name.
I don't know about you, but I'm not going down without a fight. I'm taking as many people down with me as I can.
Get a weapon... Chinese are afraid of weapons. They aren't gonna come after you if you're brandishing a huge scimitar or broadsword, are they?
bill8899:
I want to carry my Claymore everywhere, but sometimes the bus drivers want me to pay an extra fare, and the dang thing gets heavy fast. Yea a Claymore is heavy, but who would mess with a man dragging a Claymore? I suppose, as an alternative, one may carry nail clippers or something.
thats sounds so much of a bs.
I got into fights before and usually was always me starting them, for a reason(…) or another and, chinese just talk a lot and they never really do the first move and when they do, is just catfight, sissies…so, i don't really believe this really happened.
get a life dude…
never let them hit you, watch their shoulders and you throw the first punch and dont stop hitting until every one of them is on the ground, if you stop swinging they start planning and thinking and getting help. use every thing you can get your hands on and go to the atm for the 20000 rmb bribe to the police. its happen 3 times, now i dont go anywhere neanderthals drink and make an ass of themselves. just not worth the bribes and the trouble., forgot, make sure you fight away from the cameras.
hail caesar, we who are about to die salute thee, today is a good day to die, tomorrow will be a better day.
ambivalentmace:
arrogance is a luxury of the well prepared, hulk, the shoulders give away every move and kick, how you are going to strike, everything, i used to be woken up at 3 am in the legion to practice hand to hand, 2 against one, 3 against one, you get the drift, its not a pleasant experience, waterboarding was easier. next time you watch a martial arts movie watch the shoulders predict the next strike, its like shooting fish in a barrel.
Hulk:
The shoulders, eh? Interesting. I just let them hit me a few times while staring at them sans emotions. Then they look at me in horror, and that's when I have the upper hand.
How did you say no to the guys service? There are times when we need to be short and even a bit rude to get our point across that we don't want their service, but if that can be avoided, we can still say no in a friendly way. Perhaps that would have prevented the guy being upset and trash talking as you walked away. And yes, don't turn back and move forward on a man unless you plan to fight. Sorry to hear of your bad experience.
this guy is not an not an english speaker the story is bs if a taxi driver and his friend hit me or any other americans i know here we would kick his azz lol
dom87:
just they are never alone, they always have their buttbuddies around to help these pussies
I think it is ok they said Genlaowai goutongbuliao(cannot communicate with foreigners), but they should not laugh at u and enforce u to take his service. but do remember Never got involved in any fights, especially those who donot have working visas in Beijing, because u could be kicked out of China, unless u want to leave.
His chines might not have been too good but then your English is not so good either. If you had a brain in your head you would have just walked away from him and gone home.
