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KelvinCheng
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So what about Chinese people being called chinese and getting that despised look we get on other countries? I was born and rise outside of China, I'm already the third generation of my family and growing up was a hard, feeling excluded with the "local" people. Even though I consider myself more local than Chinese because being the 3rd Genereation i didn't get as much chinese background as my parents did, I couldn't even speak Cantonese. But don't get me wrong, I'm not in for calling everybody "Laowai' either, everybody got their own name. The thing is that some "Expats" think it's in a bad way. Maybe some of them do make it sound in a bad way but I'm pretty sure that "Laowai" was doing something weird or inappropriate。 However not all of them mean it in a bad way, I believe some are just saying it in a curious way remember China is populated by a lot of farmers, even in big cities, and seeing a "Laowai" is like seeing something rare for them, but others they are not so amaze by seeing "Laowais", it's like anybody else in the metro, but cannot ignore that there's a "Laowai" standing there. One thing I've learnt is that it's all about the way they say it. I don't mind my friends calling me Chinese, I find it ok hearing it from them because they don't mean it in a bad or derogatory way. And saying "Laowai" is the easiest and fastest way to referred to a non-chinese looking person, because it's all about the outside looking. In your own country you will automatically think a chinese looking person is chinese and you will never think that Foreign looking guy was in fact born in China.

Dec 03, 2014 23;06
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