The competition challenged six competitors to wolf down a kilogram of meat, two kilograms of noodles, three eggs, and a kilogram of vegetables – all within 20 minutes.

The winner, a Franco-Romanian, finished his meal in 18 minutes, 40 seconds amid chants of “Jiayou“.

A story in the Chongqing Morning Report paid special attention to the two non-Chinese competitors and their mastery of the chopstick:

The two laowai each used their chopsticks to stir around the bowl to grab a clump of noodles, which they ate by leaning their head to one side.

That description may sound like your average Zhou slurping at his noodles, but the two “laowai” also distinguished themselves by being the only two competitors to season their noodles with mala, the spicy-flowery flavoring unique to the region.

Do you have what it takes to be a Chongqing noodle eating champion? According to the report, the contest is an ongoing promotion at the restaurant, open to all customers.

Fun and games aside, China has struggled to adopt a healthy relationship with food consumption. “China is probably the only country in the world where UNICEF needs to work on over-nutrition and under-nutrition at the same time,” said Robert Scherpbier, chief of Health, UNICEF China.

This past spring, China overtook the USA to become the fattest country in the world, with 43.2 million obese men and 46.4 million obese women, each of whom face a health epidemic of obesity-related diseases. Meanwhile, UNICEF estimates that there are 12.7 million children in China who suffer from malnutrition.

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Last Saturday morning, video surveillance caught the three youths entering the Middle Longhua Road Station on Line 7 without paying a fare. What’s more, the trio brought bicycles with them, which are banned.

Reports say that when confronted by a station employee, the three foreigners pretended not to speak Chinese. Furthermore, the trio used foul language and rude gestures to insult the subway staff. They were only persuaded to leave the station after another passenger used English to strongly criticize them for their behavior. No fines were given for fare evasion, or for bringing bikes to the subway.

The Shanghai Metro has had a huge problem with fare evaders. In 2012, over 202,000 people were fined 476,000 yuan for dodging fares on the Shanghai Metro, while Shenzhen said it lost five million yuan in 2013. A popular 2013 video showed 21 people jumping turnstiles at the same Shanghai Metro entry gate within 90 seconds of each other. Just last year, they openly considered publicly shaming violators using social media.

But despite being such a common infraction, this fare-hopping incident has received national coverage from Chinese news organisations. And with China dealing with a glut of news stories about Chinese displaying uncivil behavior inside and outside the country, a focus is being put on similar news stories about uncivil behavior performed by non-Chinese.

Unlike the soul searching that accompanied one recent story about expat misbehavior, this story has attracted outright condemnation. Even the Yangtze Evening Report prefaced its report by writing, “Where are their manners?”

Chinese people were downright harsh in their reaction. Online comments called for severe punishments, deportation, and even violence to be committed against them, emphasizing the uneasy relationship Chinese have with foreigners.

Here’s what some Chinese netizens had to say about the three fare-hopping expats:

蓝翔挖掘机校草18：
Aren’t the three of you afraid of getting drowned to death with such a brazen show of atrocious behavior in the motherland?

玺泰玉雕：
Those who have become numb to getting pushed around will get bullied to extreme lengths. These sons-of-bitches should be killed upon sight.

牛掰的牛niu：
It looks like these foreign dogs have been pampered. They look African, the favortite type for some women.

手机用户3125102482：
Why is it that foreigners are privileged?

呆那盖被：
Chinese people feel inferior way too much; they worship everything that is foreign.

CN二级烧烤运动员：
Get out of China, [expletive] your ancestors.

丘山水：
They all look black to me, no wonder that…

姚胖子190：
Human flesh search the whereabouts of these three people! Let’s go take a visit for ourselves!

nice___hy：
Even though I live in a small town, we wouldn’t be able to accept this kind of treatment from these foreigners. Shanghai residents are just second-class citizens. What if three Shanghai people were to try the same thing? The Chinese dream is just something that happens at night.

我的女神叫凤哥：
Foreign trash; are the PSB afraid to deal with this?

佧仆倥：
Getting the cops to come and take of this matter is the best method. You are too courteous in dealing with this.

老关_：
Chinese officials and police officers act like castrated eunichs when dealing in foreign affairs.

渣浪到底你想我取个什么名字好：
Where is their inner essence? Where is the inner essence of democratic people?

染瞳为您薄凉：
Aiya! If this were Chinese people doing this, who’d know how bad the outcome would be!!

_Neomie韵亦：
There are so many laowai in Shanghai, and so many of those are shameless. Why don’t we catch them?

乱七八糟七扭八歪：
And then? Weren’t they deported? But it’s over like that… This type of action is spoiling these kinds of foreigners…

亨利you：
We don’t welcome these kinds of foreigners.

Bigpawpaw：
Why weren’t they caught? Are the security check personel, security guards, and police too terrified?

xiaohu928：
Don’t say ‘foreigner’, mention their nationality! All yellow-skinned people with bad inner essence outside the country are scapegoated as Chinese.

A news video of the incident can be seen here, complete with scary music.

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On Sunday, an unidentified expat mother was seen putting her two children onto the back of a 600 year-old statue at the Ming tombs in Nanjing. And yet, seen together in the same photograph, a sign posted nearby asks visitors to refrain from climbing onto the historical relics.

Poor behavior by Chinese tourists has been popular in the news lately, with a few tourists even being blacklisted. And, as if to punctuate its own pointed criticisms, reports of the disobeying expat mother have included photographs of Chinese parents at the same statue, doing the same thing next to the same sign.

What does it all mean? If we were to take the answer from the heated discussion from this popular post, it means that even the most benign behavior by expats can lead to heated rounds of soul-searching by Chinese.

As seen in the comments that follow, no middle ground exists between those that say expats exploit a double standard afforded to them in China, and those that say Chinese are in no position to occupy the moral high ground.

Here’s what some had to say:

伱媽脸色吥呔好：
Foreign trash has flowed into China.

脂舞先森：
So many complainers. None of you Nanjing residents have ever ridden on it when you were young?

还算幽静的胖子：
It’s common for people to have ridden on it when they were younger… what’s more, it’s been climbed upon for hundreds of years without any problem. If you honestly want to protect it, then put up a fence around it along with posting bilingual signs in Chinese and English along with regular patrols arranged by the management. Not paying attention to rules is human nature.

-fishliyan：
I think the pictogram (on the sign) is fairly easy for everyone to understand…

世界的heaven：
Chinese should be the first to pay attention towards correcting poor morals.

00要自强不息：
You retards! You say that foreigners follow the example of Chinese parents who put their children on the statue because there are no English signs. You say that even if it’s her own fault, foreigners are always cultivated people! And yet, besides not being able to read Chinese, she also can’t understand the pictures?

不捉老鼠的黑猫：
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. We can only blame our own countrymen for not setting a proper example.

南京笑笑生999：
That foreigners are shown to be “cultured” really makes people blush!

飞机飞远了：
Some people have kneeled for so long that they’ve forgotten how to stand up. And yet you say this isn’t inappropriate? Hehehehe

L刘宇翔：
Double standards are nauseating.

小D飞蛾子：
It sickens me to see people kissing up to foreigners. Those Chinese who get ridiculed when you travel abroad to places where you don’t know the local customs: Do you also ridicule your countrymen for lacking proper etiquette?

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There has long been a debate in China over beauty, and a question that has been raised over and over: Why do foreigners in China tend to date ugly Chinese women?

A previously published article wrestled with this conundrum. iFeng Beauty writer Xu Xiliang reasoned that Westerners knowingly marry ugly Chinese women because looks aren’t important to them. This back-handed compliment was a way to criticize Chinese society for marrying for superficial reasons. As Xu wrote, “If a man has a wife that is ugly, it is generally accepted that he is a loser.”

Recently, a new article by US-based author Qing Di tackles the same topic. Same as before, Qing discredits Western customs as a way to allow for an examination of Chinese society.

Once again, Qing states that Americans (who stand-in for “Westerners”) “do not place an emphasis upon a person’s external appearance”, instead finding traits such as “a healthy open-mindedness” and “a vigorous self-confidence” to be “beautiful”.

Qing then cuts to the heart of the matter by stating something Westerners may take for granted: that “beauty” and “sexiness” are not the same thing:

To be considered sexy by Americans, one doesn’t need to have a beautiful face, but most definitely requires ample breasts and a huge set of buttocks.

Bai Ling (shown above) is an American-Chinese actress who has found fame working in the USA, but is not considered “beautiful” by Chinese standards. Qing explains Bai’s success as a product of her willingness to cater to the second standard:

Bai has broken the mold of the traditional Asian beauty that had been entrenched in the mind’s eye of Americans. Even though many feel that Bai has discredited the dignity of the Chinese with her vulgar displays, she has been able to break into the white world of Hollywood and establish her own niche.

As much as this depicts US society as being superficial, Qing uses this point as a way to criticize Chinese society. Although the standard of beauty is rigid in China, Qing points out that the demand for fair skin in China does not have scientific merit:

The highest objective of any animal organism is to pass on their DNA: if the mate is healthy, then their offspring will also naturally be healthy. If a person’s skin is healthy, this will reflect their state of health. And yet, having fair skin won’t necessarily prove the worth of one’s internal qualities.

Qing suggests the Chinese aesthetic for fair skin is “a remnant of the country’s feudal past” when women were forced to stay at home, and has since ruined the way Chinese people make important choices:

When some rich Chinese look for a marriage partner, the first thing they look for is someone with a “fair-skinned complexion”: they are turning the important decision of finding a life-long spouse into a farce.

As before, finding the answer to “Why do laowai marry ugly Chinese girls?” for Chinese people has less to do with understanding foreign cultures as it has to do with coming to understand the true nature of love.

An ancient Chinese proverbs describes the perfect couple as being “a beautiful woman and a capable man”: but if a man doesn’t love his wife for her beauty, what does he love her for?

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NBA basketball center Dwight Howard was recently in China on a promotional tour for his Chinese sponsor, Peak athletic wear, in which the eight-time All-Star player made stops in Beijing, Urumqi, and Guangzhou.

A number of celebrities and sports stars have come to China, but Howard stands out from his peers by showing us he knows all the ways to be a “perfect guest” of China.

Nicknamed “Warcraft” by his Chinese fans (perhaps originating from a literal translation of his first name), Howard is well-known in China for his years with the NBA team most familiar to Chinese fans, the Houston Rockets. But during his short tour of China, Howard has endeared himself to Chinese fans by demonstrating the proper way to accept Chinese hospitality.

How do you make sure that you are loved by China? Let’s follow a checklist of all the things Howard gets right:

Be a “people” person

Howard shows that he is a man of the people by greeting his fans in person, signing autographs, and taking group photos. Howard also shows his affection by giving hugs; while this is something usually frowned upon in Chinese polite society, Howard shows he is on the up-and-up by doing it on stage in front of everyone, earning him a Chinese headline that literally says “Howard hugs woman on stage”.

As we’ll see, making sure you’re seen performing these acts is all part of being a good guest.

Take part in local customs, part one: clothing

Like most foreigners, Howard isn’t familiar with Chinese customs. But, as a good guest, Howard shows that there is just about nothing he’s not willing to take part in, thereby granting it legitimacy.

At a basketball clinic in Urumqi, Howard is given an embroided hat that the local people wear. After it is placed on his head, it stays there for the duration of the clinic.

Take part in local customs, part two: dance

At the same basketball clinic in Urumqi, Howard gets involved during an ethnic dance performance. By imitating the actions of the local customs, Howard is expressing his respect for it, no matter how silly he looks.

Take part in local customs, part three: kung fu

Chinese are very proud of the tradition of kung fu, something they want to share with guests from abroad. Howard shows he is game for just about anything by getting a crash course in tai chi on stage. Howard looks a lot less graceful than a guy who has been practicing kung fu for years, but his willingness for humility is a great trait for any guest of China.

Take part in “local customs”, part four: anything goes

Maybe Howard has gone a little far with this one.

Visit China’s cultural and historical attractions

China is also very proud of its history and culture, so visiting one of the country’s cultural and historical attractions is a great way of showing you appreciate this aspect of China.

While in Urumqi, Howard visited the Tianshan mountain range, where he was seen soaking it all in.

Eat Chinese food

Eating is by far the strongest way a guest of China can show appreciation for Chinese culture. We’ve seen Chinese hosts trot out trays of food for visiting guests while on stage in front of an audience, and although praise is always welcome, the only real way to show appreciate for food is to eat it.

During his stay in Urumqi, Howard showed his appreciation for local cuisine by chowing down on lamb meat skewers, or chuanr.

Put it all together: show you’ve assimilated into Chinese culture

Howard is a fast learner.

Act as a true representative of your country and culture

WTF

Be Dwight Howard

Some people are superstars for a reason.

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The G20 summit in Hangzhou is fast approaching, but its nervous host is worried that foreign special interests will ruin the party and undermine its place on the international stage.

Even though the summit is a gathering of the world’s strongest economies to discuss global growth strategies, regional issues may dominate. An international ruling on the South China Sea territorial dispute, an anti-missile system to be deployed in South Korea in the wake of a North Korean cruise missile launch, and strategic investment of foreign infrastructure are all issues that divide China from its Western peers.

And this division of opinion isn’t one that favors China. Reuters quotes an unidentified senior Western envoy who said, “From where China sits, it looks like the Americans are trying to encircle them.” Even the state-run Study Times published an op-ed that accuses Western powers of trying to limit the rise of Chinese power by “forging a new ‘sacred alliance'”.

It seems there’s not much China can do to prepare for the onslaught of Western criticism that may appear during the G20 summit… that is, unless it can pre-empt any criticism with a bevy of Western approval and praise.

The China Daily recently published a video featuring foreign tourists visiting Hangzhou. The video was about how much tourists enjoyed local Chinese delicacies, particularly xiaolongbao (literally “little dragon dumplings”). The video concludes with the tourists expressing how much they love China, and wishing host city Hangzhou good luck on hosting the G20 summit.

If that isn’t a clear endorsement of foreign opinion regarding Hangzhou and the G20 summit, here’s China Daily’s own introduction to clarify any doubts:

To ensnare a person’s heart, you must first ensnare their stomach. This is something Hangzhou can do! Hangzhou will serve as the location of this year’s G20 summit. Many foreigners will come to Hangzhou as tourists. Hangzhou xiaolongbao will conquer the taste buds of foreign foodies. This video will ensure your mouth will water. Good luck China! Good luck Hangzhou!

It could be that the main target of this video was a foreign audience, as it was done exclusively in English. However, with Chinese subtitles added, this can also be directed at a domestic audience as proof that foreigners are in total approval of all things Chinese, Hangzhou, and G20 summit-related.

What do Chinese think? Do they want foreign approval? Is this a propaganda video? Does this make you hungry for xiaolongbao? Here is what some Chinese netizens have to say about the China Daily video:

只有我而没别人的世界:
Very good, very China.

芯之守护i:
Chinese cuisine will conquer the world!

大风起兮腿毛飘:
The words of these foreigners match those of the imperial edict.

Some people watched the video, and all they could think about was how delicious the food looked:

季诺d:
Watching this made my mouth water.

一颗小浆果:
If you want the best xiaolongbao, it’s best to go to Jiangsu where they are thin-skinned with lots of juice.

无锡一介布衣:
Aren’t xiaolongbao best in Wuxi?

Others saw the video has a promotional vehicle for the upcoming G20 summit:

巷口de煙花雨:
This (video) is just for tricking foreigners.

上浮下钝 昨天
Made me barf. Is this more self-promotion?

Some netizens were very critical of the video’s message that seeks approval from abroad:

凉夏微 昨天:
Don’t want to receive recognition from foreigners. This demonstrates how we like to have our idols and put on a show for them. We always want to comfort others and receive their praise and make them happy. But at the moment they’re not pleased, then we feel as though they can’t appreciate us. What does this have to do with self-confidence? Comments here that want foreigners to recognize our worth are really self-abasing.

佳佳笑语 昨天
It’s as though Chinese deeply desire recognition from laowai

However, some people took objection to the way the video was viewed as a ‘propaganda’ video:

满是深爱018:
What is all this about ‘insisting on receiving recognition from foreigners’? Are you insisting on showing off your intellect here (in these comments)? All this video is doing is to propagate the culture of Chinese cuisine. Some people really just have such a limited world view.

最最最喜欢金在中:
I’m honestly speechless. All these (foreigners) have done is come to Hangzhou as tourists, eat these xiaolongbao and find them delicious. That’s all. What’s up with all these comments being so tart?

That said, some netizens pointed out that the eating of the ‘xiaolongbao’ appears to be just a charade:

鄭筱婷:
Why isn’t there any soup (in the dumplings)?

诚染:
This is not an accurate depiction (of what xiaolongbao are). Anyone who has eaten a xiaolongbao knows that they have a frail structure. You can’t eat them with your hands, otherwise the soup inside the dumpling will run out, ruining the taste. The proper way to eat xiaolongbao is to lightly grip them (using chopsticks) and suck out the juice, and season with vinegar using own personal preference. That’s the perfect way to eat it.

Other netizens continued to point out that when it comes to food, the video is inaccurate:

孟春Pumpkin:
Xiaolongbao are not a special delicacy of Hangzhou, but rather a regional one that belongs to Shanghai and Zhejiang. Can these comments not try to act so superior? Your northern steamed buns aren’t so delicious, in my opinion.

西安烟花爆竹:
Authentic Hangzhou xiaolongbao originate from outside Hangzhou

翼天神:
Xiaolongbao are already available all over the world.

阳光腿子:
Was the xiaolongbao eaten by the Muslim girl Halal-approved? (One common variety of xiaolongbao contains pork with minced crab meat and roe)

However much these foreigners enjoy their xiaolongbao, netizens pointed out that Hangzhou will be basically off-limits to Chinese during the summit:

不死鸟出世:
Going to Hangzhou now is like entering the customs of a foreign country!

沙漠之狐1234:
Many stores have closed down (for the G20 summit); there’s not even places to go eat. They really know how to hype!

翁同学呀:
Will Hangzhou’s xiaolongbao stores still be open (during the G20 summit)?

So, what’s the point of the video? One netizens poses the question, while another answers:

my217_NON:
Why must we win over the stomachs of foreigners?

非*:
Just one xiaolongbao is all it takes to win you over.

Watch the video here, but be forewarned: if you don’t find yourself having a strong opinion either way, it’s likely that you’ll find yourself getting hungry.

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The traffic accident happened last Friday morning in the City of Lianyungang. One of the vehicles involved had two unidentified foreigners, one of whom was driving the car.

According to Chinese social media, the two foreign men were heard uttering racial slurs including “Chinese dog”; “Chinese people are dogs”, and “fuck you…Chinese dog” in English and Chinese, before the two men started barking like dogs.

The crowd prevented the two men from fleeing the scene, and demanded an apology. Some of the crowd went so far as to damage their car.

The crowd at the scene grew so large that photographs of the incident show police officers linking arms to restrain a mob pointing fingers at the two men as they were escorted away.

Chinese news media like Sohu and iFeng do not reference the alleged racist slur in their reports. Instead, they cite local police reports that blame the incident on the “public’s misunderstanding of the situation”. Police requested that the public not spread false information in regard to the incident.

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That’s when a businessman known only as “A.S.” was taking the bus in Guangzhou just after withdrawing the equivalent of $86,600 from a bank. He found a seat near the back of the bus and soon dozed off. A.S. slept so soundly that the next thing he knew, he was awakened by a bus worker at the terminal station.

However, pleasant dreams gave way to a real-life nightmare when A.S. discovered his money had been stolen. The zipper of his backpack had been opened, and the black bag containing the funds he had withdrawn from the bank was gone.

The money stolen from A.S. included RMB 70,000, $36,500, and EUR 36,000, a total equivalent to RMB 520,000 or USD $86,600.

The Guangzhou Public Security Bureau investigated the case and discovered that a gang of deaf thieves were targeting expat victims. Police found the gang was responsible for another theft that also targeted a non-Chinese. On May 18, an expat riding the same bus had RMB 20,000 stolen from him. Reports say the gang, comprised of two males and one female, was arrested on May 26.

Other expats have been more fortunate. Last May, two businessmen were reunited with luggage containing $100,000 they had forgotten while taking the Guangzhou Metro. 

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As an expat living in China, you might “like” living here, but that’s not enough: you need to “love” China, and that requires your full obedience to the country. That’s according to one impassioned expat blogger who wants to tell all “laowai” who dare to complain about China to “piss off”.

David Gulasi is a 33 year-old English teacher from Australia who is also a popular blogger known as DavidHohhot on the Weibo micro-blogging platform. Gulasi has gained 730,000 followers in a short time. Although Gulasi has a number of posts to help viewers with English, Gulasi has also become popular by whole-heartedly catering to Chinese interests.

On May 25, the expat blogger uploaded a 2:53-long video in which he complains about expats who complain about China. The video has received over 52,000 likes and almost 16,000 forwards.

Gulasi started off by saying:

I’m sick and tired of seeing foreign people come to China, earning the money here, living the life here, like, having so much freedom in China, and then complain about China. I want to tell those foreign people something. If you’re one of those foreign people, I want to tell you: Piss off! Okay? Piss off back to your country.

Gulasi says the cost of living in China for expats is their compliance:

If you don’t like China so much, don’t stay here and earn the money. Don’t stay here and date the women. Don’t stay here and survive. Go back to your country, okay? Because you decided to come here, you have to accept the locals, you have to accept the culture.

Gulasi brings up the USA as a counter example where newcomers to the country act accordingly to its rules:

No country, no place is perfect. There’s no such thing as a perfect place. You think if I go to the US, I don’t have a chance of getting shot in the bloody street? Of course I do! But people don’t go there and bloody complain! And if they complain, they don’t do it so verbally outside.

Gulasi claims that he’s not “kissing locals’ asses” by having such an opinion, and shares one personal anecdote to explain why this issue upsets him so much:

I saw a foreign guy in an elevator once, swearing to another guy. And it really pissed me off! I swore to him, I said: “老外，咋了？”(“Laowai, what are you doing?”) And I said it in Chinese, and the guy looked at me, and I said to him, “Piss off, go back to your country.” Like, I’m sick and tired of these kind of foreigners coming here.

At one point in the video, Gulasi walks back his comments. Contrary to what he had previously said, Gulasi says expats are in fact allowed to complain in China, but “don’t be rude about it, okay? Try to be nice about it. If you don’t like something, say you don’t like something, don’t be rude to the locals.”

However, Gulasi also encourages Chinese to be openly hostile to expats whom they find disagreeable:

I’m sick and tired of foreign people being rude to Chinese people. If you want to be rude, then piss off! I want to tell Chinese people something: If you see a foreigner doing this, tell him to “F” off, okay? Tell them to “Go back to your country”. If you don’t like it here so much, don’t stay here, alright?

Asserting that “China doesn’t need you. You need China,” Gulasi said expats in China should be more appreciative of the country, like he is:

I’m here because I need this place. This place has helped me a lot. And I appreciate this place. So guys, be grateful for what you have, alright?

Gulasi’s rant was warmly received by many Chinese netizens who think his words are a mandatory lesson for “laowai”, a Chinese term that marginalizes expats by emphasizing their foreign qualities.

One person echoed Gulasi’s sentiments by saying, “We have no choice but to drive these immensely ignorant laowai out beyond our borders! China does not lack talent, and we don’t need you!”

Other Chinese netizens showed their appreciation of Gulasi’s positive opinion of China. “Thank you so much for fairly treating China this way~ I hope that you can continue to like and enjoy China,” said one person, while another commended him by writing: “David, you’re so handsome!!! All countries (are the same in that they) don’t want rude foreigners. Even though there are many unsatisfactory things about China, we can’t allow foreigners to criticize it! You’re so great!! I like you!”

Gulasi showed he had really endeared himself with his Chinese fans when one person told him, “My goodness, you really are a Chinese.”

In an interview with China Daily over his newfound celebrity status, Gulasi revealed that he had previously tried stand-up comedy. “I’ve always tried to do something to make people laugh. It’s built in my DNA,” Gulasi said.

But Gulasi’s attempts at humor reveal a disrespect towards people from countries outside China even before he made his recent rant.

In one video, Gulasi insists that Indian-accented English is difficult to understand by extensively performing an Indian accent, but claims he wasn’t being discriminatory. And in a blog about stereotypes, Gulasi states that women from the USA are in fact promiscuous because if you “Give them alcohol, good music and lots of friends… Then you will see…. They are awesome to party with!” In the same blog, Gulasi states that women from Russia are “beautiful until they get married…”

[h/t r/China on reddit]

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The man repeatedly tells the woman that cut in front of him, in flawless Mandarin, “Hello? Hello? Can you please line-up in the queue behind?” The woman pretends not to understand him, and ignorantly says in a Wuhan dialect, “What is this ‘zebra’ talking about? I don’t understand a word you are saying.”

The man responds in the Wuhan dialect, “Don’t cut in line. Do you understand me now?”

The woman tries to gain the upper hand by responding in a Dongbei dialect. “What do you want? When did you see me cut in line?” and used a common Chinese insult meaning “You must be sick.”

Without breaking a sweat, the man answers in the Dongbei dialect, “Go stand in line, otherwise everyone here will criticize you. What do you mean ‘What do you want?’ Your cutting in line should have a rational reason.”

The woman, clearly (and rightly) giving up, said “Are you sick? I’m not eating, not eating!” as she walked away from the line.

We applaud this unnamed man for not only calling out someone for jumping the queue, but also for calling out her ignorant comments with dignity. Good on you, sir!

Watch the video here.

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