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Q: What won't you miss about china?
That's a long laundry list... but at the top of the list... the number one thing that drives me insane is:
The Chinese "face" concept which makes it so that they can almost NEVER admit when they are wrong, blame all others first and almost NEVER apologize when caught or proven to be wrong (which is null and void because they are never wrong).
royceH:
Ho! (Monkeyism) Last night we rocked up to the only place in the city that has a big tv screen to watch the soccer game between China and Aust and the first thing we ask for is lots of cold beer and please turn it on to CCTV 5. The 3 staff members who were all playing on their phones agreed. CCTV 5.....OK.
They tried finding the game on the computer. No no no....CCTV 5...NOT THE COMPUTER. JUST TURN ON THE TV. OK. OK.
TIME PASSES AND WE DRINK AND TALK WHILE LOOKING AT THE TALKING HEADS ON THE BIG SCREEN. THEN I REALISE THE TIME.....IT'S GONE 6.30....THE GAME HAS STARTED. THE SCREEN STILL SHOWS TALKING HEADS. I YELL OUT, HEY YOU'VE GOT THIS ON THE WRONG CHANNEL.....THEY SAY NO THEY HAVEN'T. I SAY BLOODY OATH YOU HAVE, THE FLIPPIN GAME STARTED 3 MINUTES AGO AND WE'RE MISSING IT. THEY SO NO, I'M WRONG...IT'LL BE ON SOON. NONONONONONONO.......TURN IT ON TO CCTV 5, IT'S ON NOW!
NONONONO, THEY REPEAT. I SAY LISTEN MATE, TURN IT ON TO CHANNEL 5 NOW OR I'LL BUST YOU UP. HE THEN CONFIDES THAT HE'S BEEN LYING...THEY DON'T HAVE TV, ONLY THE EFFING COMPUTER. I BUSTED HIM UP.
That abominable spitting noise. To me that is the grossest behavior I have ever been around~ ugh
Eorthisio:
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPLLLLLLLLLLLLASSSSHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I has a neighbor doing this every morning by 7am, not once but a good dozen times each morning, he stopped doing it don't know why, I hope he died from a throat cancer.
Babies pooping in the streets
royceH:
Not only babies mate. I saw two blokes wearing chef hats squatting down side by side alongside the restaurant where I guess they worked. It wasn't even dark.
That's a long laundry list... but at the top of the list... the number one thing that drives me insane is:
The Chinese "face" concept which makes it so that they can almost NEVER admit when they are wrong, blame all others first and almost NEVER apologize when caught or proven to be wrong (which is null and void because they are never wrong).
royceH:
Ho! (Monkeyism) Last night we rocked up to the only place in the city that has a big tv screen to watch the soccer game between China and Aust and the first thing we ask for is lots of cold beer and please turn it on to CCTV 5. The 3 staff members who were all playing on their phones agreed. CCTV 5.....OK.
They tried finding the game on the computer. No no no....CCTV 5...NOT THE COMPUTER. JUST TURN ON THE TV. OK. OK.
TIME PASSES AND WE DRINK AND TALK WHILE LOOKING AT THE TALKING HEADS ON THE BIG SCREEN. THEN I REALISE THE TIME.....IT'S GONE 6.30....THE GAME HAS STARTED. THE SCREEN STILL SHOWS TALKING HEADS. I YELL OUT, HEY YOU'VE GOT THIS ON THE WRONG CHANNEL.....THEY SAY NO THEY HAVEN'T. I SAY BLOODY OATH YOU HAVE, THE FLIPPIN GAME STARTED 3 MINUTES AGO AND WE'RE MISSING IT. THEY SO NO, I'M WRONG...IT'LL BE ON SOON. NONONONONONONO.......TURN IT ON TO CCTV 5, IT'S ON NOW!
NONONONO, THEY REPEAT. I SAY LISTEN MATE, TURN IT ON TO CHANNEL 5 NOW OR I'LL BUST YOU UP. HE THEN CONFIDES THAT HE'S BEEN LYING...THEY DON'T HAVE TV, ONLY THE EFFING COMPUTER. I BUSTED HIM UP.
The lying. I hate that. They just can't admit they don't know the answer to something. Instead they'll give some b/s answer instead of saying "sorry, I don't know".
And when you tell them you have 100% proof that the accountant has stolen your money their absolute best response will only ever be "it's just a misunderstanding".
The ethnocentric behaviour and homophobia.
The selfishness, the dishonesty and duplicity.
Cars that actually try to run over me, causing me to damage their doors and faking a knee injury.
The one thing that winds me up in China in elevator etiquette. Or lack off.
I had yet another episode today of the door closing as I rushed forward. Then, when the next elevator arrived I held the door open for some dude who ambled forwards oblivious of my action until he was 2 feet away.
He was looking but he did not see.
Many, the ethnocentrism and the xenophobia, the "face" white lies concept, "the foreigner is always wrong even when he is obviously right" that is a result of xenophobia, the "let's gossip about that foreigner" then "oh shit he understands our language, keep a low profile", the spitting, the loud obnoxious talking because EVERYONE IS F*CKING DEAF!!, the driving rules that don't exist or are not enforced (same thing), the narrow or simply closed minded people, they are even centric and phobic about food that says a lot.
Pollution doesn't bother me at all, local people are much more annoying.
Snot bombs
scooters with the horns of a semi truck
etiqutte (elevators, trains, planes, etc...)
"do you like Chinese food?" "Chinese food is so complex to prepare"
What about these cocks outside my bedroom window whooping and hollering like maniacs. They don't give a stuff about anyone else. And there's hundreds of millions just like them. So, I won't miss these rude and inconsiderate bastards.
