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Q: Some of the locals are trying hard pretending to be someone other than Chinese online. Why?
Is it some kind of inferiority complex or what?
maybe a combination of things, including some portions of an inferiority complex. get the laowais to fight each other, say a few things they would not dare to do as locals, maybe even get the forum in trouble with local authorities. But as far as I am concern, who cares?. The best way to shut them up is not to get involved. (See Mr Cat, I am learning !). Ignore them and they will fade away in frustration (Dude's advise to me, thanks pal)
ambivalentmace:
i suppose its a good way to learn what the rest of the world is taught in school about china in other countries and not what the government tells them is taught about them.
Inferiority complex, yeah maybe a little. But its the equivalent of me making prank calls when I was 11yrs old and thinking that it was sooo funny...so i will go with immaturity as the main reason
Franck3:
There are a number of reasons to going on line as someone different to what you are. I have done a number of experiments on the web. One was the reaction to names. I was looking for a girlfriend on line and used my real name Frank. my middle name is Gordon so I used Frank to start with. Only got eight responses to Frank then I used Gordon and got over fifty? Also I wanted to see the reactoin of men to a women looking for a boyfriends. This was an amazing experience. I posted a picture of a young beautiful women. I got so many hits I could not keep up with them. The coments I got were varied from sexual perverts to Doctors a n lawyers etc. I learned a lot from these experiments. Franck3
Here is one answer from Admincat's notification in my inbox. This pretty much explains many strange things about Chinese "Inferiority complex" (maybe)...."dont hate me, admincat"
"One of your recent posts was deleted as it only contained Chinese characters. There's nothing wrong with including Chinese characters in your posts, but please also include enough English for others to interact with you. This platform is, after all, designed for expats!"
I've been on this site for a while, someone is so brand new on this site are made their TOP USERS......
I felt I'm so so so "thick face" on this site ......
This kind of what"complex" are very outstanding in the Asian face circle, I had noticed it quite many times whenever I encounter with one of them. It made me laugh a lot.....(because Im living in one "big" city, from "big"China...it's fxxxking nature for me to feel I'm a proud Chinese/Asian face)......
This kind of situation is also giving "white face" circle a reason to be proud, a reason to look down things here or there.......
But on this site, maybe Admincat dont allow them to show real ID....."wink wink"
My 2 cents.....
philbravery:
I understood her and I think I know where she is comming from on this ocation Localla please understand that people like me cant read charicters , and some others cant even read pinyin.so to be fair this forum is like foregin ground (embersy) and we use English as the commen language. and yes I agree with you about the pretenders but we just have to live with it because this place has them. sorry about the spelling and Im sure 1 of 5 personalitys will point them out. but as long as you understand the meaning who gives a rats ass
I don't want to derail this subject but I have the strongest feeling that it is not only locals that are pretending to be foreigners. Somehow, somehow I think that some foreigners are pretending to be other foreigners and that some foreigners are pretending to be locals. 
DaBen:
Does that mean I could just be pretending to be me? The next thing you're gonna tell me is that my avatar isn't actually a picture of me, or is it?
MrTibbles:
Maybe I should make a new account and only reply like this: YUO ARE TEH SLOBBARGOAT!!1111111 Aftar yuor data gets too teh telephone poll, it puts yuor data into a phone call conversatian with grandma. So when yuo talk to yuor grandma you should say "hey Grandma, 101010101010110110101 " LOLOLOLOZZZZZECKS!!!111111 It would be more coherent than some of the posts....
I think our avatars should have a country flag next to them. And if you speak in Chinglish then your flag will be changed from US/UK/whatever to a Chinglish flag.
It's deceptive but harmless and for the individual doing it it's a great test of their English. If I was Chinese i'd probably have a crack at pretending to be a foreigner, just to see if I could get away with it.
Scandinavian:
actually trying to be on e.g. Weibo pretending to be Chinese could be a challenge for those foreigners who are able to understand the language. I am still a bit away from that as my vocabulary is limited to
"Close the door"
"Two baozi"
"Thank you"
"Dogfood"
mArtiAn:
I've been tempted to try that myself but I don't think i'd last five minutes before I got called out.
philbravery:
If I am buying on some web sites (English) I will write in pin yin
that usually gets a curios reply
