Strange habits~
ok, there are certain culture differences that are just, well, unusual to me. Having attended etiquette school and being brought up in a home where you learned to 'dine with kings', I am extremely sensitive to manners. Living in China, I have had to lower my guard and deal with the following:
1) public nose picking (my personal favorite)
2) hacking
3) spitting
4) smoking (everywhere-including enclosed elevators)
5) kids pissing and crapping on the sidewalks
6) eating cloves of garlic as a side dish (when sitting next to me-ooh man...smelly)
7) staring
8) pushing and shoving
9) spitting out food on to the tables
10) chewing with mouth open
11) elbows all over the table
12) men wearing their shirt half way up their chest-exposing the stomach
Its amazing how after a while, you become indifferent to most...though the nose picking def gets to me...ug quit with the digging already!!
posted by Maddy @ 6:58 AM
3 Comments:
Hey, what's wrong with a side dish of garlic.
Mama-mia!
I was talking to a guy at SeaWorld a few months ago. He was ethnically Chinese, but California-born. He was living and working in Beijing. For whatever holiday it was he took his family to Hong Kong and Shenzhen. He told me the worst thing about Beijing for him was the spitting. I agreed that I couldn't stand the spitting, either, but then he said here in Shenzhen it wasn't nearly as bad as in Beijing. Makes me want to go up there, let me tell you.
There is supposed to a public service campaign in the works to promote greater cleanliness at least in Beijing, in time for the Olympics. This is supposed to include reducing the spitting.
Add to the nose picking snot rockets. Especially attractive.
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