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"These Chinese Tourists Cutting In the Queue!" Rant by Thai Girl

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As a Chinese-American all I have to say is....

fucking mainlanders.

Here's the thing if you confront a mainlander they will almost always back down unless in their native hood where they might be carrying a cleaver but in unfamiliar territory the last thing they want is trouble with local police.
 
Been a few times in China and it happens all the time. The best part is you can just get past again whoever passed you in the queue, look at them in the eye, and they won't say anything or even look at you. You know you tried to get my spot, you know I took it back just like that, but they act as if nothing had happened.
 
Wow. The bigotry in here is amazing. "Fuck Mainlanders" is just a step away from some truly, shall I say, potently recognizable slurs. Doesn't really matter if you're Chinese-American or not. It's not your direct culture. You grew up in the states? Apples and oranges I'm afraid. And even then, you're still throwing an entire country under the bus as if they are a hive mind. Not a pretty sight for the typically understanding crowd we like to celebrate here. ;)
 
I don't blame them to an extent as its a cultural thing - when I was in China, there were basically no lines. If you patiently waited your turn, you simply wouldn't get a ticket or whatever.


But to be frank, as mentioned earlier, waiting in line is the mark of a civilised society. My 2 year old's day care trains kids to wait their turn.
 
Wow - some of the comments in this thread are probably going to be trouble fairly shortly.

I hate waiting in line, but cut in front of me? I'm usually a calm guy, but that will make me rage, especially if I've been waiting a while. I have confronted cutters before, and when they turn around, they very quickly leave with no incident. The self-entitlement is mind boggling.
 
AyaisMUsikWhore said:
I'm so serious about this but I have never seen anything like this. This is seriously a once in a lifetime situation. Open racism against another race which both happen to be of Asian ethnicity. I've always heard this from people but never seen it myself, especially in a front facing camera YouTube rant.

I understand her pain, just not in her racist sentiment. However, all that complaining is whack when all she really had to do was push her way through since she was there first. I wouldn't give a fuck. No one is skipping me in a line
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Have you ever lived in Asia? There's open racism between Asians all the time. Let me catch you when you succumb to the vapors.

SpeedOfNuts said:
Been a few times in China and it happens all the time. The best part is you can just get past again whoever passed you in the queue, look at them in the eye, and they won't say anything or even look at you. You know you tried to get my spot, you know I took it back just like that, but they act as if nothing had happened.
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The game is the game, as Omar Little said.
 
evilromero said:
Wow. The bigotry in here is amazing. "Fuck Mainlanders" is just a step away from some truly, shall I say, potently recognizable slurs. Doesn't really matter if you're Chinese-American or not. It's not your direct culture. You grew up in the states? Apples and oranges I'm afraid. And even then, you're still throwing an entire country under the bus as if they are a hive mind. Not a pretty sight for the typically understanding crowd we like to celebrate here. ;)
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Never ask GAF what they think about the quality of Chinese manufacturing
 
PopFisto said:
Same with talking in cinemas. Most countries the people will talk freely and loudly. Including, America which is actually a terrible place to watch movies generally. Thankfully, people in the UK tend to be ok. Multiplexes in London can be a crapshoot, although generally not bad. Young people of minorities do tend to be loud and talk in cinemas. Just part of the culture, not that its even necessarily a bad thing, from their point of view. Audience participation in cinemas, to me sound ridiculous, but its the way many people, races and cultures are.
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Not something you want to try in America, unless you want to get kicked out.

We may have the occasional cheer during an action movie, but if you're chatting up a storm or turn on your phone, you will be the recipient of crowd rage.

Stet said:
Mainland as in the mainland. Kind of like how Torontonians talk about people who live on the island or San Franciscans talk about people who live in Oakland.
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In SF it's the "Bridge and Tunnel" crowd. They don't limit the "other" to one city.

hydrophilic attack said:
Ok, so mainland Chinese as opposed to Chinese civilized by living in other cultures then
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Not sure if racist or just trolling, when you try to claim that Taiwan isn't culturally Chinese. That's like claiming Ireland isn't culturally Irish.

gconsole said:
At least that is a place to make a mess. It's a party on a beach. People get drunk and have fun.
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A beach is one of the worst places to make a mess because all that crap just goes out to sea.
 
BTW guys you should come to Primark in the UK.
Chaotic shopping, but very orderly single lines with almost 10 tellers.

"Cashier number 4 please!"

It's probably why you see Brits form single file where there could be many different lines. I didn't notice that I actually did this until this thread pointed it out.

Syriel said:
Last time I was in Japan I got mistaken for Brit because I was "too polite to be American."

Thought that was an amusing example of perception bias.
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that's hilarious
 
Atraveller said:
Chinese don't use twitter, because they can't.
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This made me laugh.

ultratruman said:
my ex gf was from shanghai, she said you can access twitter and Facebook if you pay a fee, but must chinese use WeChat and Weibo (both of which are monitored and censored, but she didn't believe it.) it's hard to know if she was telling the truth though: she liked to lie, her parents are good communist party members and she refused to see anything wrong with lack of civil rights on the mainland.
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This also made me laugh.

Azuran said:
I seen it first hand and and I find it so fascinating.
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I have too. I just tell them "no, go back to the end of the line." Guess what they do? Go back to the end of the line. Only once has anyone ever decided to give me lip before going back to the end of the line, and that dude clearly learned English from watching Rocky.
 
evilromero said:
Wow. The bigotry in here is amazing. "Fuck Mainlanders" is just a step away from some truly, shall I say, potently recognizable slurs. Doesn't really matter if you're Chinese-American or not. It's not your direct culture. You grew up in the states? Apples and oranges I'm afraid. And even then, you're still throwing an entire country under the bus as if they are a hive mind. Not a pretty sight for the typically understanding crowd we like to celebrate here. ;)
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tbh the reason I don't like mainlanders is because there's an influx of them, so they're sort of edging out the little cultural niche that most Cantonese-speaking immigrants carved out for themselves in certain areas. Also doesn't help that most of these people belong to or are part of the noveau riche of China. I at least realize that's just petty of me, however...

Anyway, the behavior isn't limited to the new mainlanders; I just think of it as a remnant of the time of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, where being last in line meant your kids went hungry...which also explains odd behaviors like digging through recycling bins to make literally pennies, or lining up (ironic, isn't it) in front of churches on weekends to get handouts they don't need.
 
izunadono said:
BTW guys you should come to Primark in the UK.
Chaotic shopping, but very orderly single lines with almost 10 tellers.

"Cashier number 4 please!"

It's probably why you see Brits form single file where there could be many different lines. I didn't notice that I actually did this until this thread pointed it out.
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It's like that in Canada, too. Unless there's specific checkout lanes, like at most supermarkets, Canadians will generally form a single line and go to the next open cashier.

I remember one time I was waiting in line at a Burger King in Toronto. Some Jamaican came in, couldn't understand why we were lined up that way, and called us all "fucking idiots".
 
evilromero said:
Wow. The bigotry in here is amazing. "Fuck Mainlanders" is just a step away from some truly, shall I say, potently recognizable slurs. Doesn't really matter if you're Chinese-American or not. It's not your direct culture. You grew up in the states? Apples and oranges I'm afraid. And even then, you're still throwing an entire country under the bus as if they are a hive mind. Not a pretty sight for the typically understanding crowd we like to celebrate here. ;)
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This made me laugh. GAF is an understanding crowd unless you don't agree. Take a look at any threads talking about politics, religion, videogames, florida.

I am American but my parents are from Taiwan. I think part of the mainlander hate coming from other East-Asian cultures is due to us not wanting to be lumped in with the same crowd. I've gotten dirty looks before as a tourist in Europe before I opened my mouth and spoke English.

I've also been told directly to my face by Mainland Chinese folks that Taiwan as a country doesn't exist and that they (China) should invade if we keep referring to it as a separate country. That always have been fun.
 
Waiting your turn in line is a hallmark of civilization, sad that people have it ingrained in them that they can just cut in line.
 
Pedrito said:
When I went to China last year, it wasn't all that bad, except for one time. We were waiting for the bus in Mutianyu to get back to Beijing. We went to the bus stop 30-40 minutes in advance to be sure to have a seat. As it got closer to departure time, more and more people arrived, most of them elderly people in their sixties and seventies. Instead of forming a queue behind us, they just stood there. When the bus came into view, they started "running" towards it while shouting and pushing. You'd think older people would be more "zen" and respectful, but no. The scene was absurd. The handfull of western tourists there all made eye contact with a "are you fucking kidding me?" look on their face. Thankfully, I still got a seat.
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The bus from Mutianyu is literally one of the most bullshit, mismanaged pieces of shit ever. They send like eight busloads of people there in the morning, then one or two come back to pick everyone up. It makes no fucking sense. I had to stand for the whole two hour drive back to Beijing because it was literally the last bus that would take us back.
 
StifflersMum said:
Completely unacceptable behaviour in Germany.
Are you sure they were locals?

Sometimes there is confusion though, if there is one "official" line, or multiple lines. Especially in McDonalds.

So if you were standing there, thinking you are in the "one line", and then somebody comes in and sees an opening in what he thinks is a "short" line, he or she might steal that spot from you.
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They were speaking German so I assumed they were local. It caught me off guard, maybe they thought we were standing there waiting for our food.
 
OldAsUrSock said:
Like Japanese have any experience with Brits lol.
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Brits are dicks when they travel to Southern Europe, they act as if it was a colony and get angry when people can't speak English LOL

Germans can also total be asses; they don't tip in Canada, and when they travel to Mexico or Cuba, they treat the locals like sub-humans and yell at them
 
gutter_trash said:
Brits are dicks when they travel to Southern Europe, they act as if it was a colony and get angry when people can't speak English LOL

Germans can also total be asses; they don't tip in Canada, and when they travel to Mexico or Cuba, they treat the locals like sub-humans and yell at them
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Depends on what you are expecting them to tip for. Canada is practically the same culturally as America and we all know America's weird tipping culture.
 
Pedrito said:
When I went to China last year, it wasn't all that bad, except for one time. We were waiting for the bus in Mutianyu to get back to Beijing. We went to the bus stop 30-40 minutes in advance to be sure to have a seat. As it got closer to departure time, more and more people arrived, most of them elderly people in their sixties and seventies. Instead of forming a queue behind us, they just stood there. When the bus came into view, they started "running" towards it while shouting and pushing. You'd think older people would be more "zen" and respectful, but no. The scene was absurd. The handfull of western tourists there all made eye contact with a "are you fucking kidding me?" look on their face. Thankfully, I still got a seat.
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lol
 
Junior Mint said:
Even other Chinese people don't like mainlanders. Just look at Hong Kong, I almost never want to go back there just because of how bad it is nowadays. Unfortunately, I live in both Vancouver and Toronto where the population is exploding with mainlanders. Rude, obnoxious, loud. Ugh.
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Toronto here. My buddy from HK would always utter under his breath "the sacred grove is being desecrated" some 15 years ago when mainland Chinese immigrants began popping up in larger numbers. Always made me chuckle, until it became a reality.

Kidding aside - except for one occasion where a woman was flipping out over an issue with her order at a restaurant, I really haven't noticed any abhorrent behavior from that demographic. Granted, it's not too often I find myself in Markham/Richmond Hill, but for the most part I find the younger generation to be pretty well assimilated (and stinking rich).
 
Line cutters to me are very similar to the people on public transit who huddle by the back door instead of moving back when the bus becomes full.
 
| Praxis | said:
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I went to school with a few Chinese kids (in the uk) and they were some of the most polite and modest people you could meet. It's a shame some of their fellow countrymen behave this way when abroad.
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Chinese pople who grow up in UK are some of the best, most polite people I had the chance to hang with, they are all so damn considered.

The problem is when Chinese tourist decide to visit Birmingham, you know they got money and hence, are all disregardful.
 
Uggh, encountered this nonsense when I went to Beijing. Even when you get to the register and take 1 second too long in paying, the scumbag behind you is paying and out the door. Learned very quickly to When in Rome and started elbowing my way to the front of lines, paying and gtfo. It became kind of a fun game.
 
Ugh, I live in an area of Sydney with a large Chinese population and queue cutting happens all the time. At least store staff will get angry at them.
 
Dynamite Shikoku said:
Ugh, I live in an area of Sydney with a large Chinese population and queue cutting happens all the time. At least store staff will get angry at them.
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Hurstville? Surely not Chatswood, far too wealthy. I actually haven't seen any Chinese queue cutting in Sydney but then I don't think I'm gonna bump into many mainlanders at Din Tai Fung.

Didn't see any in Hong Kong either. HK might not be as whistle clean as Tokyo but I thought the people were just as nice. Tbh though I have been apprehensive about making that last leg of the journey over to mainland China. Maybe one day.
 
I've dealt with some of this fuckery at the university level. Chinese students being obnoxious in the libraries. It was sort of annoying, but then again I've met some cool Chinese students too... Outside of college, nada.


Also this girl's eyes look enormous.
 
hydrophilic attack said:
I would have been pretty angry in her situation (I'm Swedish, can't help it) but her racism and the racism on display in this thread is pretty disgusting.



wtf



I don't want to generalise here, but American tourists' bad reputation is spreading pretty fast. Some of the incidents off the top of my head include:

-Those American tourists carving their names into the colosseum in Rome.
-Those American tourists taking nude pictures in a Cambodian holy site
-Those American tourists pushing over rocks in Utah.

See what I did there? Drawing conclusions about a population of millions from a few isolated cases.

I hope a mod goes through this thread with a sledgehammer.
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These are certainly not few isolated cases. They are like i said, just some of the major ones recently. These are happening almost or maybe everyday everywhere (especially the defecating part). There's also cases of them stealing tablewares from Singapore airline, or pouring hot water at a Thai flight attendant and yelling to bomb the plane, or washing feets at Louvre in Paris etc . I dont really think people can brush it that they have a higher rate of cases because there's much more Chinese tourists than many other countries.
 
I would love to shove line cutters to the back of the line when and if they decide to force their way past me, including dicks that try to board a train, elevator or bus without letting people off first.

Alas I am merely 5'2" and just over 100 pounds. Consequently I can only shove children. :(
 
Kjellson said:
My sister was in China a couple of months ago, her rants about the Chinese and this thread kind of want me to go there and see how it is. Almost.

People who walk on the tram before letting people off is the worst. THE WORST!
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I physically walk past people on the subway that do that. As if they weren't there.

Only way to deal with rude people is to out-rude them. It's like how firefighters sometimes actually fight fires with fire.
 
pants said:
Why make multiple lines? You still form one queue and the person at the head of the queue gets the first available cashier.
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That's one of my pet peeves, when everyone is lined up nice in a single queue going to multiple destinations and then someone decides there's no-one in line to one of the tellers and bypasses the entire line. The single queue to multiple points is great when it works since if one of the tellers boggs down you don't have to sit there and watch others behind you get done first.
 
Fafnir said:
Uggh, encountered this nonsense when I went to Beijing. Even when you get to the register and take 1 second too long in paying, the scumbag behind you is paying and out the door. Learned very quickly to When in Rome and started elbowing my way to the front of lines, paying and gtfo. It became kind of a fun game.
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Mammoth Jones said:
I physically walk past people on the subway that do that. As if they weren't there.

Only way to deal with rude people is to out-rude them. It's like how firefighters sometimes actually fight fires with fire.
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A never ending cycle of rudeness born from rudeness that will never be broken lol
 
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