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Q: Using the ignorance of the locals to entertain yourselves?
Locals love to walk up to blacks guys and say, 'You're African" when they get an answer they didn't expect they walk away seemingly angry with a puzzled look on their face. But if you have a south African in your group be sure to point them out as being African (of course they have to be a white south African, never met a non-white south African in China). And laugh at the mind blown reaction. 7 times, and still waiting for someone's head to literally explode.
How do you play with ignorant locals.
I thought I was going to get in a fight once. Was in a BBQ restaurant with a few mates, one was Sth African and a table of guys start talking to us, asking where we were from and all the usual questions.
When my friend said he was Sth African they thought he was making fun of them and didn't take it well and it got a bit heated. They wouldn't believe that yes, there are white people in SA.
As far as using other people's ignorance against them goes though, I don't recall ever doing that. I suppose might have if I sensed the other person was having a racist dig at me or something but don't remember it.
I do remember being highly amused when that tsunami hit Japan though and took out the nuclear reactor ( I know how that sounds but just read on).
People in China were panicking about radiation which was understandable enough and nobody really seemed to trust anything the media said so you had to feel for people in that respect, but then they started stockpiling salt because it has iodine in it which is supposed to combat radiation sickness or something and when the shops run out of salt soy sauce was the next thing to go because it's salty.
By now people just thought that salt was going to save them from the radiation somehow, there seemed to be no thinking or logic going on, it was just people reacting to rumours and blindly buying all the salt they could get, I don't think they even knew why.
Then I heard people were eating salt. The idea of people trying to eat spoonfuls of salt for a ridiculous reason is pretty sad really, but the arsehole part of me did find it funny.
Englteachted:
There are white people every where, met a few white Jamaicans a while back.
Many actually don't realized that native Jamaicans (Caribs) are very light skinned.
ambivalentmace:
yes, I remember telling some Chinese that the same company, General Electric, that built the Japan reactor also built the one they have in Yantai, they did not believe me and I said look it up. They actually thought China had no nuclear power plants, I almost choked on my chuar and beer and left very quickly. My favorite is the taxi driver asking me if we have trains, no we still ride horses in America. Yee Haw
