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Q: What do you do if a stranger asks for directions in China?

What do you do walk away, answer politely, ignore what they are asking you or anything else not mentioned?

12 years 16 weeks ago in  General  - Beijing

 
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It will mostlt depends on the "mode" of the questions asked. 
If a stranger greeted me and asked for directions in a polite way, I will be inclined to reply and help as much as I can, short of me incurring in any expenses.
But if the stranger yells at me, "Hey, you dude, where is this or that place?" I will look at him, smile, and reply in another language "Sorry, no English".  Or if they are behaving noisely and in an obnoxious way, I will steer myself away from them.

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This is stupid question of the day. I answer. Either I tell them how to get there and if I don't know, then I tell them that. If it is anyone looking like you, then I would give them directions to the worst part of town and hope they get mugged.

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A Chinese person wouldn't ask a foreigner for directions (and if they did the foreigner probably couldn't understand).

A foreigner asking another foreigner for directions is the blind leading the blind.  I don't know where anything is.

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If I know the answer, point him/her in the right direction.

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Sodomy.

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Chances are they will ask me in Chinese, and I will have no idea what they are saying. So no, I usually don't give directions.

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Well of course the answer is to just point in a single direction and tell them to go that way (or that's the answer when I ask an local that either doesn't know or doesn't care).  But it try to at least help the best I can when I'm actually asked.

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