I love to hate on Americans (in a friendly way) as much as the next European, however American tourists aren’t that bad. This level of stupid assholery is 99% Chinese tourists, the missing 1% is Russians. No hate for Chinese, Russians, anyone that can behave themselves though- they probably hate their fellow citizens more that anyone of us ever could.
And 98% of those asshole Chinese tourists are the ones that travel with a group. It’s rarely like a young Chinese couple on their honeymoon. It’s almost always some middle age and older nouveau riche dickwad who is too afraid to travel by themselves.
Does the culture lack the simple teaching mechanism of “The guy said to sit your ass down, Li, so you shoulda sat your fucking ass down. I’m posting the video of your drippy ass on IG.”?
I wonder if it’s like a translation thing? I bet individuals in these groups don’t speak the local language but have a translator. Maybe the translator is too deferential and won’t actually translate orders properly so as not to offend their clients. Just pulling a guess out my bum; anyone with real experience know?
What I read a few years ago is that it’s potentially from the rise of many rural Chinese families becoming much wealthier in a short period of time and moving into the cities and being able to travel outside the country for the first time in generations, if anyone in their family ever had. Basically the “hillbillies” of China to put it very crudely.
I love to hate on Americans (in a friendly way) as much as the next European, however American tourists aren’t that bad. This level of stupid assholery is 99% Chinese tourists, the missing 1% is Russians. No hate for Chinese, Russians, anyone that can behave themselves though- they probably hate their fellow citizens more that anyone of us ever could.
And 98% of those asshole Chinese tourists are the ones that travel with a group. It’s rarely like a young Chinese couple on their honeymoon. It’s almost always some middle age and older nouveau riche dickwad who is too afraid to travel by themselves.
Does the culture lack the simple teaching mechanism of “The guy said to sit your ass down, Li, so you shoulda sat your fucking ass down. I’m posting the video of your drippy ass on IG.”?
I wonder if it’s like a translation thing? I bet individuals in these groups don’t speak the local language but have a translator. Maybe the translator is too deferential and won’t actually translate orders properly so as not to offend their clients. Just pulling a guess out my bum; anyone with real experience know?
What I read a few years ago is that it’s potentially from the rise of many rural Chinese families becoming much wealthier in a short period of time and moving into the cities and being able to travel outside the country for the first time in generations, if anyone in their family ever had. Basically the “hillbillies” of China to put it very crudely.