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Q: What are those things you do in china and that you would never in your country?
1. Push into lines at train and bus stations and supermarkets - it would cause a fight.
2. Spit on the street openly - it would cause a fine.
3. Take a leak publicly on the corner of a large building - it would land me in jail
4. Take a taxi - can actually drive more safely myself at home
5. Eat toast and sandwiches without butter - we have both butter and margarine readily available
6. Teach English - public school system at home is a disaster for teachers
7. Walk around in minus 30 degree temperatures - never that cold back home....EVER
8. Drink warm beer - that's a criminal offence to serve it back home
The list could go on.
Hork a big loogie in the middle of a crowded street.
Hang around in a sauna with a bunch of nude blokes and get a body scrub done by some dude.
Bang so many ladies, spend money recklessly and still manage to save some, drive a motorcycle without a helmet...
Using squat toilets to take craps!!
Drinking beer (or anything) like a college boy because the locals think drinking is like fighting (a competition)!!
Let strangers touch me and I NOT chew them a new asshole (personal space doesn't exist and I'm learning patience)
where I come from it doesn't happen...period
drinking and smoking till i almost pass out. then, somehow ending up in the nearest Mc'donalds and spending the whole night there.
Ja Ja, that would be an easy answer....
First and foremost a combination of acts, picking my nose and closely examining the results of my "search" afterwards on my fingers. And second would be spitting on the streets.
Of course, there would be a multitude of others, like smoking on restaurants and inside buildings, bargaining for discounts when purchasing articles, having a leisure bath at a public bath house, date many girls almost half my age, eat rice every day, ignore lines of persons waiting for their turn and go directly to the front and demand service, drive like a maniac, continue my research on preferred colour of underwear used by Chinese Ladies as shown while riding bikes (so far red is winning by a mile), blow the horn and drive as I please, or stop at a traffic light and engage the emergency brake and stop the engine, or when it rains run the wiper blades intermittent so blades do not wear out, make a 90 degree turn fro the furthest away traffic lane, drive bikes on sidewalks, ride a public bus for 1 or 2 yuan, etc.
LIFE IS SOO HARD FOR US EX=PATS LIVING IN CHINA, just think 24 oz of beer cost 3 yuan, less than 50 cents !.
Talk to people in Madarin. Never tried it at home, but sure it wouldn't go down well.
Drink 3.6% beer. I'd rather piss in my own mouth. It would save time.
Wave at people. **wave**wave** People would think I was gay if I did that at home.
Also, use the 'thumbs up' gesture. Not done at home, yet used with some sucess and approval here...
Oh Lord...definitely ...I will NOT be using squat toilets ever again. Just had to do it for the first time today....I think I'm scarred for life!!!! 
Date women that want money, i was weak and I am powerless against thier beauty. Imagine every night being picked up by a group of small women and carried off against my will to a dam ATM. Yes Mr Happy rules my brain and also makes me walk with a limp in China. 
I will try darker sun glasses next time and never ever ever carry money or visa card. I spent an insane amount of money. dam ATMs, who knew those girls were strong enough to carry me ? Is this the traditional Chinese woman ?
And walk down a street drinking beer.no problem. I'd like to do that at home, not possible
Not much really. I have kept my manners here. But I like that if I need to I can do something rude and no one will care. My only indulgence is the occasional urination in the street when drunk and unable to find a toilet late at night.
Not wearing a seat belt in a car. Their seat covers make it impossible sometimes. 
Ahahah, excellent question...
- get rude and pushy in the subway, bus and supermarket
- not holding the door to people (here there are 1 billion that won't hold the door for you)
- take taxis
- smoking under a 'no smoking' sign
- talk to just anyone as if we've been friends our whole life
- cross the road without looking left or right, just forward and hope for the best
- ride my bike in the middle of a major road, without any regards to the priority
- make comments in french or english about the grumpy faces or garlic-y smells (did that once in a supermarket in France, didn't end well!)
Cut somebody in line waiting at BurgerKing or at the Airport.
These are just things I saw people doing and wouldn't see in my own country.
I wouldn't yell outside the window here but I do in my own country. Actually I yell outside the window at the apt. bldg because it's so high up and people won't know where the sound is coming from. I wouldn't do that at my house because all the neighbors would know where it came from.
Also I wouldn't do a free demo in my country when I sold Cutco Knives. Here you have to do free demos that is something I wouldn't do in my own country.
mattaya:
Wow! Less than a minute and already someone is lurking around.
crimochina:
Cutco knives actually does do free demos, once again you prove you are not from america. cutco knives and other sales companies like them rely on young desperate unemployed people to use their friends as contacts and do free demos for them in hopes of getting sales. give it up. google/baidu cant take the place of actual experience
