Visiting China made me and my friends racist. I knew it would be different than the United States, but I was not prepared for manipulative and dishonest nature of 90% of my interactions. From "tour guides" who would take places completely different then where we asked, "university students" who wanted to "go out to tea", taxi drivers who took suspiciously long to reach destinations, resturaunts "mistakenly" overbilling, beggers who would plead for money just seconds after attempting to pickpocket, I'm concinced the majority of China has no respect for other cultures. Then I look at their newspapers and wow. I saw a letter to the editor saying that people who spit on the streets should be jailed. And don't get me started on their coverage of America.
(To be fair, there were some Chinese people were incredibly friendly and didn't ask for any money. They were exclusively old people, which makes me wonder what has happened to China's youth.)
(To be fair, there were some Chinese people were incredibly friendly and didn't ask for any money. They were exclusively old people, which makes me wonder what has happened to China's youth.)