Then again, it wouldn't work if they were heading to, say, Lima for this year's Olympics.
The main problem with it is that it's generally one of the most obvious ways for ignorant people to make Chinese people (who grew up amongst non-Chinese people) uncomfortable - like, say, throwing a banana in front of a black person. Certainly happened a lot to me growing up but ah well...
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Date: 2008-08-15 06:54 pm (UTC)The main problem with it is that it's generally one of the most obvious ways for ignorant people to make Chinese people (who grew up amongst non-Chinese people) uncomfortable - like, say, throwing a banana in front of a black person. Certainly happened a lot to me growing up but ah well...