Residents in a Hunan town were surprised recently to find that their new road safety monitor, (you know, the ones that ‘help’ you cross the road by furiously waving flags and blowing whistles in your face whilst you wait for the light to change) was in fact, a foreigner.
Leah, 21, came to Zhuzhou a month ago to teach in a foreign languages school. Last week, she successfully applied to become a Zhuzhou road safety monitor and now is in charge of monitoring traffic. She says that although her Chinese is limited, it’s good enough to keep would-be jaywalkers in line. If she sees people attempting to violate the traffic rules, she will gently remind them with a smile.
Many residents have shown their appreciation to Leah, and said that they will be on better behaviour in front of her, because she’s a foreigner.
Source: ifeng.com
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Keywords: 21 Year Old British Girl becomes Traffic Warden in Hunan
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Seems like a piece of fake news which are so popular in China
Sep 21, 2014 10:50 Report Abuse
So when she tries to do her job and pisses off the wrong person she will surely be deported for working outside the boundaries of her Z visa... watch out young lady!
Sep 20, 2014 19:46 Report Abuse
if people het into an accident coz they were staring at her instead of the road, she will be blamed. if she just gets fired, she will be lucky.
Sep 19, 2014 16:32 Report Abuse
This is my city, it is funny, because here the number of foreigners I think it is not more than 50, a small city with 1 million people. It is a called 工业 city. Actually this work is made by old people with no manners, they always grab your clothes and show you a paper where it says you should pay a 50 RMB fine directly to them!. They are really rude, but also the pedestrians are when arguing with them. This is a weekends job for sure, only on saturday and sunday I can see these people.
Sep 19, 2014 09:02 Report Abuse
"Many residents have said that they will be on better behaviour in front of her, because she’s a foreigner." So... Not because road safety is important, but because someone is watching. I think that adequately summarises the Chinese mindset. "Be an asshole by default. Imitate good behaviour only when being observed."
Sep 18, 2014 21:03 Report Abuse
Yup... all about face. As long as you can get away with it, then anything goes. When you're worried about being embarrassed in front of a "foreigner", then you behave, so that you can pretend to be civilized in the oddly colored and mishapen eyes of Westeners.
Sep 19, 2014 08:46 Report Abuse
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