Flights to and from Mainland China
With regard to traveling on a flight with a large number of Mainland Chinese, I do think it is a matter of education and social habits they have that they unknowingly carry over to aircraft.
I saw an old guy spit on the floor of a plane because that is what he assumed was ok to do. They don't think about this stuff, they just do it.
I don't think it is necessarily racist to point out bad habits. For instance, I find it very annoying when people carry a conversation at their normal "street volume" (ie very loud) in confined space, such as inside aircraft, without consideration for others (I am glad I usually have earplugs with me, or use headphones). It is as if they are in their own world and they don't really care about anyone else.
Basically Mainland Chinese have never really had to concern themselves with people around them. Their sense of personal space, and etiquette (sometimes non-existent) is simply not calibrated for international travel.
However, I am not apologizing for their oftentimes crass behavior. I am just pointing out the fact that they often don't know basic etiquette when traveling.
I will say that I usually enjoy flights that originate from Japan, and abhor flights originating from mainland China.
MAB
Not wrong or right, just different.
[QUOTE=Furias]
it is just a way of life. Different. Not wrong.
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Agree! The differences in behavior, ethics or manners, is the result of different conditioning (learning).
We sometimes behave in ways that they would find shameful, like "going dutch" and not fighting for the bill.
I recently invited a girl to go to the park. She did not reply. She probably thought, "cheap bastard, doesn't want to take me shopping".
I took her shopping at 7-11
[QUOTE=Santa] I recently invited a girl to go to the park. She did not reply. She probably thought, "cheap bastard, doesn't want to take me shopping".[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Bill Lee]I recently invited a girl to go shopping and she did replied, "Thank goodness you called. Some cheap bastard just tried to invite me to the park." Bill[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Santa]Bill stole her phone number from me and now he's doing her doggy, in the friggin park! :mad:[/QUOTE]
No. I took her shopping at 7-11
I did her in the back room and she started yelling Santa's name, "You cheap bastard."
Bill
Spitting, and the invention of tissue paper.
Thirty years ago everybody was spitting in China. The streets of Shanghai had spittoons along the sidewalks full of green gob, they had spittoons because it was a comparatively modern city. Buses and trains were very overcrowded and everybody had respiratory infections, spit was everywhere.
Tissue paper is new to China. Since it is now quite common, due to a huge public health campaign, spitting is now not so common and respiratory infections have been greatly reduced.
Europe and America was probably the same in the not very distant past. Tissue paper is an under-appreciated and wonderful invention.
Many (or maybe most) people in the world still wipe their arseholes with their fingers. In the Philippines they use a water sprayer, which I think does a better job of cleaning away the shit. In this respect I think they are more hygenic than westerners.