China don't want chinese from overseas ...

[Telstra]

Non Chinese have a lot of advantages in China

 

[star-warrior]

American Chinese, British Chinese, Australian Chinese, XXXXXX Chinese... I'm safe to say we all feel a bit of a banana sometimes.

 

[RaKroma]

I think this can apply to many Americans who go back to their ancestral homelands. Like Irish and Italian Americans have nothing in common when they go visit those countries.

 

[glasvegas]

I honestly do not feel connected to China in any ways. I am glad my ancestor decided to board the ship and came to Malaysia. Even the situation does not get better as compared to those who resides in western country but we are still doing pretty good. My father once asked me to go to China with him which I turned him down as I don't feel like I have to find my 'roots'. I think at one point he was trying to find our relatives but no one knows our family history as my grandfather died a long time ago.

 

[frankfrank]

^ YOU TURNED DOWN A TRIP TO CHINA?????

You may be one of those people who doesn't like to travel, as there are people who don't care for it. Or was his entire purpose for the trip, nothing more than try to trace "roots" and such, and not do tourism or anything else? Back in the days that my commitments were only "optional" and not piled up atop one another, if somebody (who I liked or loved) offered me a trip with them to elsewhere in the world, I wouldn't have turned it down, and indeed that happened to me twice and both times I took the people up on it. (Both were friends I knew I'd enjoy traveling with - and it was Nassau in 1970, Germany in 1989.)

Interestingly, in all these years, I've never taken a "nookie trip" with a friend. I don't need to.

More recently - THIS YEAR - I've possibly started an annual trip with another friend. This year it was a trip to Hawaii less than a month ago. That's still the United States, but another part of the world. However, unlike the 1970 and 1989 trips, this isn't just somebody asking me if I want to go with them, but proactively taking part of the planning every step of the trip.

 

[glasvegas]

^ YOU TURNED DOWN A TRIP TO CHINA?????

You may be one of those people who doesn't like to travel, as there are people who don't care for it. Or was his entire purpose for the trip, nothing more than try to trace "roots" and such, and not do tourism or anything else? Back in the days that my commitments were only "optional" and not piled up atop one another, if somebody (who I liked or loved) offered me a trip with them to elsewhere in the world, I wouldn't have turned it down, and indeed that happened to me twice and both times I took the people up on it. (Both were friends I knew I'd enjoy traveling with - and it was Nassau in 1970, Germany in 1989.)

Interestingly, in all these years, I've never taken a "nookie trip" with a friend. I don't need to.

More recently - THIS YEAR - I've possibly started an annual trip with another friend. This year it was a trip to Hawaii less than a month ago. That's still the United States, but another part of the world. However, unlike the 1970 and 1989 trips, this isn't just somebody asking me if I want to go with them, but proactively taking part of the planning every step of the trip.

I have a strong passion to travel but, I just don't want to go to China yet and travel with my dad will cause more tension and stress as we have very different opinions, I'm more of a free spirit backpacker while he was more of a stick with the tour guy

 

[Telstra]

I have a strong passion to travel but, I just don't want to go to China yet and travel with my dad will cause more tension and stress as we have very different opinions, I'm more of a free spirit backpacker while he was more of a stick with the tour guy

Stick with the tour is like sight seeing without doing anything which is boring

 

[Telstra]

I don't want to go to China either... I have never been there and I don't feel a connection to the country as well, although I am Chinese. It doesn't help that I have no idea how to speak any Chinese dialects. :/

Is that mean Chinese boycotting Chinese ?

 

[Telstra]

No? I love me some Chinese men.

But I don't want to go to China as I feel I'd definitely be really awkward and left out there. Even when I went to the Chinatown in London and Manchester I would feel a little weird being there. Everyone would be talking to me in Mandarin or Cantonese and I'd be staring at them blankly. Communication barrier. And I think they'll be thinking what sort of dick wouldn't know his own language. :/

Nah, don't think so.
They'll think you can't hear or something and leave it at that.

 

[The Fly]

I've never been to China, but if given the opportunity, I would probably jump at it. I would love to see some of their architecture, the food on the other hand.........I'll pass. I would have to bring a Scooby-Doo lunch box for trips outside urban centers, fill it with McNuggets and go.

 

[yhtang]

I was not born in China, but I am of pure Chinese stock. I grew up in a Chinese environment, which means I am not a banana (yellow outside, white inside). I speak mainstream Chinese (Putong Hua/Mandarin) and three other southern Chinese dialects. I read and write Chinese, and I know my Chinese literature and culture.

I have been to China many times, and as a Chinese looking foreigner in China, I get a lot more hassle than non-Chinese travelling in China. If a non-Chinese tourist makes a blunder or a cultural faux pas, the locals are much more forgiving. Similarly, if a non-Chinese in China holds a different opinion, the locals will excuse it off, excusing the non-Chinese as being not familiar with the local customs or .... dare I say, just some foreign asses monkeying around.

As an independent traveller with a Chinese face, I am expected to think, act and behave like a local Chinese. If I deviate from the mainstream thought, I am deemed to be a trouble maker.

Having grown up away from the effects of the Cultural Revolution, my thinking is very much different from the local Chinese, and my rather classical/traditional Chinese upbringing does not allow a smooth fit into present day Chinese society. Since I am, to the locals, "a non-Chinese Chinese", I am not automatically welcomed to live in China. Oh, I am welcomed to spend my money in China, no problem with that at all.

I interact often with the locals in China - not just the Han Chinese, but also with the other minority groups. I cannot say I like the way the Han Chinese think they are superior, but I can also understand the reason for the way they think - after all, if you are the overwhelming majority with both political and economical power, why should you care about how others think. I suppose it is very similar to certain people in America (not all) expecting everyone living in America to be WASPs. The Australian "Ten Pound Pom" policy was not that different - Brits to populate Oz after the Second World War.

So, for me, I do not mind visiting China but I would not be able to live there permanently, and I would certainly not give up my citizenship to be a Mainland Chinese. And similarly, the local Chinese in China would probably not want me to live there as I would probably be a trouble maker in their eyes. And yes, my present behaviour, preferences and norms would certainly spell trouble to them.

By the way, the locals in Hong Kong and Singapore (both places with a high Chinese population) have problems with the Mainland Chinese who leave Mainland China to live in Hong Kong or Singapore.

 

[Telstra]

wow, this guy must really loved china LOL
"chinese children song"

 

[glasvegas]

I was not born in China, but I am of pure Chinese stock. I grew up in a Chinese environment, which means I am not a banana (yellow outside, white inside). I speak mainstream Chinese (Putong Hua/Mandarin) and three other southern Chinese dialects. I read and write Chinese, and I know my Chinese literature and culture.

I guess you're from Malaysia? I have the similar background. I grew up speaking Chinese and 2 different dialects and I went to chinese elementary school. I took Mandarin in high school which consists of literature and grammar and calligraphy.

It's not that I dislike Chinese but they are just ignorant in general, that's why I tend to avoid them as I know we will clash in conversations.

 

[earlgrey]

I've been to China and kept getting harassed for money (in the toilets...) or dragged into shops/restaurants by force. Not particularly keen to go back.

But I'm from and grew up in Hong Kong, not mainland China.

For some reason, people always come up to me and ask me for directions in Mandarin Chinese (in Australia, Hong Kong, anywhere). Mostly, I understand what they're asking for, but don't know how to respond in a way that they'll understand since they obviously don't speak English or Cantonese. And Mandarin is spoken like it's written, and less conversational.

Sometimes they're polite, but there was this one middle aged bloke that just stopped me in my tracks, and blurted out "Where's Chinatown!?" in Mandarin. I pointed him in the opposite direction.

 

[pat grimshaw]

… don't know how to respond in a way …

I used to have the same problem. I have been told that one should look them in the eye and firmly say Oom Go Joyo Jeh!

 

[Telstra]

I've been to China and kept getting harassed for money (in the toilets...) or dragged into shops/restaurants by force. Not particularly keen to go back.

But I'm from and grew up in Hong Kong, not mainland China.

For some reason, people always come up to me and ask me for directions in Mandarin Chinese (in Australia, Hong Kong, anywhere). Mostly, I understand what they're asking for, but don't know how to respond in a way that they'll understand since they obviously don't speak English or Cantonese. And Mandarin is spoken like it's written, and less conversational.

Sometimes they're polite, but there was this one middle aged bloke that just stopped me in my tracks, and blurted out "Where's Chinatown!?" in Mandarin. I pointed him in the opposite direction.

You have to be street smart.
This guy can survive in china, i'm sure you can too:

 

[earlgrey]

You have to be street smart.
This guy can survive in china, i'm sure you can too:

I didn't really get dragged in, but what happens is, you go down on the escalator, and it's all clear.

But when you're about mid-way down, and too far gone to go back up, a dozen people start scampering from the shadows, waiting to get their talons on you once you reach the bottom of the escalator.

Not handing your phone over is pretty much common sense. I wouldn't go as far as buying a stranger food over there, as it'll involve taking out your wallet, which they could just grab and bolt.

I like how he ended the video though, hahahaha

 

[Telstra]

I didn't really get dragged in, but what happens is, you go down on the escalator, and it's all clear.

But when you're about mid-way down, and too far gone to go back up, a dozen people start scampering from the shadows, waiting to get their talons on you once you reach the bottom of the escalator.

Not handing your phone over is pretty much common sense. I wouldn't go as far as buying a stranger food over there, as it'll involve taking out your wallet, which they could just grab and bolt.

I like how he ended the video though, hahahaha

Oh i think this is more closer to your experience:

 

[alonelion]

As a Chinese I want to say to live every day is veryyy lcuky Every day in fear of food safety issues make me crazy

 

[pat grimshaw]

^

Yes. Clean milk over there is more valuable than heroin.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-25/milk-smugglers-top-heroin-courier-arrests-in-hong-kong.html

The air is filthy