This is a serious question, please don’t be racist. Since Chinese tourists (and British in Eastern Europe) are universally hated and no one has anything positive to say about it, it makes me very sad. I have friends from the mainland that behave properly and knows how to follow rules. It’s sad to see people generalize an entire large nation as uncivilized, so does anyone have any positive or neutral experiences with them?

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The vast majority of them are just fine, like with most tourists. The problem is there’s just massively large number of them in many tourist destinations compared to other countries (at least where I live), which means you more frequently see one acting poorly too.

    The Americans are somewhat the same, we also get a lot of them.

    That being said, even though most of the issues are because of sheer numbers it doesn’t mean there aren’t a few key cultural differences which can play a role in western locations being offended by Chinese behaviour.

    The big one with China is that culturally there’s no expectation that you treat a stranger respectfully, the person you’re dealing with needs to earn your respect rather than having it by default. This comes across as quite rude to many other countries when you only have a single interaction with this person.

    This isn’t a Chinese only issue though, Americans can also be quite rude depending on where they’re from and how they were raised, a good chunk of them are entitled assholes who think the world revolves around them when they visit.