A Beijing shop has taken a very strange sales approach in a country of 1.3 billion Chinese customers: it has banned them all.
The Beijing clothing store, located on Yabao Road, put up a sign saying “Chinese not admitted. Staff included”. The Beijing Youth Daily reported on the incident following complaints from nearby residents.
The shop allegedly announced that they didn’t want to put the sign up, really, but they had no choice because ‘some Chinese customers are too annoying’.
The sign was initially put up following an incident of a foreign customer having their wallet stolen by a Chinese person, which was caught on surveillance cameras. The only way to prevent that from happening again, logically, is to ban all Chinese people. On top of that, a salesperson said that Chinese women generally try on lots of clothes but do not buy anything in the end. So annoying.
Rumour has it that the ban is actually an attempt at keeping the competition from copying the shop’s clothing.
News of the blatant racism has travelled quickly, through various international media outlets. There was no further information as to how they would check a customers’ nationality if in doubt.
Source: Shenzhen Daily
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How can anyone take this seriously, it is clearly a stunt.
Dec 02, 2014 14:32 Report Abuse
I agree. Most of us laowai don't have all that cash to blow, as we prefer to haggle for bargains and go drinking in WDK or SLT, lol. If anything, they should be more discriminatory towards non-wealthy-looking Chinese. That way they could always say they are not being racist, as well as exercising their right to deny service, thus, saving face (I think they are more concerned that the poorer will be more prone to steal things). This is how I interpret it, and *in no way am I saying all poor Chinese people steal*
Dec 01, 2014 11:00 Report Abuse
Blatent racism? Against which race (there are 56 ethnic groups officially recognized as "Chinese")? It's a ban on Chinese customers, regardless of race. If they said "No Han allowed" or "Yellow people not allowed", then yes, that would be racist, but "No Chinese" is not racist. It's nationalistic, which is not exactly a good thing, but it's not racist.
Nov 29, 2014 11:48 Report Abuse
It's hardly 'nationalistic' if you are banning your own people.
Dec 01, 2014 08:55 Report Abuse
It's Nationalism with Chinese Characters, like socialism with chinese characters.
Dec 01, 2014 12:49 Report Abuse
In the strictest sense, it is very nationalistic, as it's based on nationality. It's possible to discriminate against your own nationality much like you can discriminate against your own race. It's not common, but possible.
Dec 02, 2014 05:32 Report Abuse
Nope, don't need a dictionary (I already have several). In this case, if the one who made the policy was Chinese, then it would be having strong national feelings for another country. An American can have negative views about other Americans, and very positive views about Germans, for example.
Dec 02, 2014 09:59 Report Abuse
Since when do Chinese people ever do what signs say？In a country where people don't obey traffic signs, signals and drive all over the sidewalk; Do these shop owners really thing a little hand written note is going to keep them out?
Nov 28, 2014 18:57 Report Abuse
It wouldn't make in into the top ten list of dumb shit I read every day on the streets, but it somehow made the news.
Nov 28, 2014 13:36 Report Abuse
And the best part was left out. According to the BBC article it's not illegal because, you guessed it, there's no such thing as racism in China and so no laws against it. 2014, and in China it feels like 1914.
Nov 28, 2014 13:20 Report Abuse
A taste of their own medicine. Only when the Chinese are discriminated against it makes headlines. Yet when certain foreigners are told they can't work somewhere because of their skin colour nobody even bats an eyelid. Hypocrisy at it’s best.
Nov 28, 2014 12:32 Report Abuse
Why can't I stop laughing? This is epic! I've seen signs in Chinese "不要老外." So now that the shoe is on the other foot, people are upset in China. Maybe it the racism and xenophobia ended, there would be no need to tell people not to go into their stores.
Nov 28, 2014 12:17 Report Abuse
Two in Haidian (one restaurant, one bar), one in Songjiang in Shanghai (KTV), one in Nanjing (in Maqun), two in 1912 in Yangzhou, three in Shijiazhuang. Wish I still had the photos, but my computer's hard drive fried and most everything I had (including my vacation photos and chinglish photos) were killed off.
Nov 28, 2014 23:00 Report Abuse
Because all foreigners can read the 'no foreigner' sign in Chinese... someone is bluffing.
Dec 01, 2014 08:59 Report Abuse
I couldn't read it when I first got here, but when the clerks started yelling at me and pointing at the door, I figured out the sign really fast.
Dec 01, 2014 11:50 Report Abuse
Wow. So many guests. Must be xenophobic locals unwilling to give out their real names. Dismissed for cowardice.
Dec 01, 2014 16:01 Report Abuse
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