The Shanghaiist just posted about a near riot in Zhengzhou, Henan, a few days ago. The spark of the unrest was that a foreigner allegedly slapped and spit in the face of a Chinese woman.
A Caucasian man, appearing to be middle aged and sporting a Walmart brochure in the left breast pocket of his shirt, found himself surrounded by angry passersby as he sat holed up in the back seat of a BYD car. Many from the crowd…
Yet another for our "Bad Laowai" category.
From Shanghaiist:
A video now going viral on iFeng.com shows a white blonde male putting his feet over the seat before him and a Chinese female passenger's head on a train from Shenyang to Beijing. It is not clear what happened before the start of this video, but the woman was clearly irritated by the man's behavior. She stood up, turned around, and hit the man's f…
A new year and a new douche bag to add to our "Bad Laowai" category. Ryan Fedoruk, a 40-year-old former part-time English teacher from Canada, sublet about 30 apartments to more than 100 foreigners in Shanghai before taking the money and running.
Eva Gao, the Chinese lawyer representing his victims, sums things up on her blog:
Fedoruk began subletting apartments in Shanghai in early 2011. He would post ads …
iLook China recently ran a guest post by Lionel Carver (no idea if that's a pseudonym or not), which details the writer's experience being a guest of the government in a Chinese jail.
Subtitled with "A Cautionary Tale for Expats in China", I was curious to read both what Carver endured and, perhaps most voyeuristically, what he did to get there.
His description of the long boring days (all eight of them), spart…
Two Italians, a Chinese and a Japanese walk into a hospital...
This would be the start to a joke, if it didn't end with a perforated ear drum, a smashed monitor, some dead fish and perpetuation of the stereotype that foreigners in China all view themselves as overly-entitled drunken douchebags.
From Shanghai Daily: The dispute took place about 11pm Wednesday night, when an Italian man with an eye injury was esc…
Some Gems:
"Chinese people need to learn brains."
"It's 2011. Chairman Mao is dead."
And the kicker:
"See, I'm Canadian, I don't have to shut up. Chinese people have to shut up. Canada people [sic] don't have to shut up."
Couldn't be prouder to be a Canadian [shakes head]. Granted, I've no idea what happened before the video started capturing the argument, but JTFC that b'ys gone off, eh!?
I feel for …
Charles at ChinaGeeks pointed me to the following video in his most recent post, "What an Idiot Foreigner Shows Us About Xenophobia and Sexism in China."
The video shows an extremely drunk foreigner stumbling down the street, having an incredibly patient cop try to help him out, exclaiming he loves China, hugging said cop, kicking at his father-in-law, falling off one of those coin-op children's rides outside a sh…
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