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Q: do locals brag to everyone they meet that they have a foreign friend?
I don't know if anyone here brags, but whenever there is a freshman girl around me with a clingy/cutesy personality, she'll hang onto my arm like we're best friends. I find it annoying, but since I don't see that type of girl very often, it's ok. I also have groups of boys that walk by, they can be quite far from me, but they still yell "hello!" and giggle like idiots. Girls do it to, but only if they walk close to me. I don't even know those people. What's more annoying is that because students here know I play piano and sing, they bug me to do it. I tell them I'm not a performer, just a normal person, but they say it's out of "friendliness," because I'm so good at it. So what? They don't ask their friends to do it as often as they ask me.
giadrosich:
I get the "hellooooo" comment a lot in public, but it is only after they have passed me by, so usually I hear it from behind. Now, I just ignore it, as I have found it is not meant as a greeting, but, sometimes spoken in a derogatory manner.
Do I feel like sometimes my friends here take me out to meet their friends to showoff? Sometimes. I think the gf does this sometimes too.
Do they brag? If I knew the language better I would know, but I suspect they do.
there is one criteria we can follow, that is their english level. if their english is fair good, that means they have enough" foreign contact", no need anymore.
Yeah, I've had business men invite me to very nice dinners just to show me off to their government friends. Then he's introduce me to the resturant and/or KTV owner and he'd want to take me drink with all the other VIP rooms.
