Topic: news Sticky Expat Etiquette: Dealing with Other Foreigners in China

Perfectly explained, Rei. Have been living and travelling in China for the past 3 years, both big and small cities, and i can feel that happens more often in bigger comunities.
Even though, my experience also taught me that in time the natural selection will occur... if you always have an extra smile available, you′ll end up having a new set of friends (laowai or not), even if they don′t say hi when going up the 32nd floor. Just my 2 (and an half) cents...
Those Chinese habits (some foreigners also have them), that you refer, tend to disappear as they get to be more educated/instructed individuals.
I call them habits, cause they′re culturally related, and i am sure all our countries must have some they will also dislike.
Only cause we′re expats, doesn′t mean we all have the same culture, background or life experience... but some people (mostly Chinese) think we′re all the same, because of their lack of live contact with other cultures.