Annoyed Foreigners Beat Chinese Men With Bottles at Xi'an Night Market

Annoyed Foreigners Beat Chinese Men With Bottles at Xi'an Night Market
Apr 27, 2015 By eChinacities.com

On April 23, a man from Lanzhou and his Xi'an friend were beaten by a group of foreigners at a night market in Xi'an. The Chinese men were drinking near a table of five male foreigners, a female foreigner and a Chinese woman. The native Xi'an man toasted the foreigners and they all drank together. Half an hour later, the man from Lanzhou toasted the group of foreigners. Suddenly, the five foreign men began to beat the two Chinese men with beer bottles. The two men were knocked down, and the foreigners left.

The man from Lanzhou said that he rarely sees foreigners back where he is from. He wanted to toast with them and take a photo of it in order to show off back home. He did not expect to be hit. The men both had large welts from the beating.

Several witnesses condemned the group of foreigners for the hitting the Chinese men. One even shouted, “Foreigners fight Chinese people!” However, a member of the restaurant staff said that the men had been disturbing the foreigners and that he believes that it was their own fault they were hit.

Source: ifeng.com

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Keywords: Xi'an foreigners Xi'an night market

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roma4895

the point is if you dont want to be in China back to your country

May 03, 2015 02:11 Report Abuse

Guest2503130

Wow, we almost have a balanced piece of journalism here with that last paragraph about the owner! Well, considering I feel like screaming in broad daylight and sober in Nanjing quite frequently, I can only begin to imagine how obnoxious this group from Lanzhou might have been...

May 01, 2015 07:52 Report Abuse

Robk

Good... I am glad. I try to be friendly but I know exactly what happened. You want the real story? Here it goes: Chinese guys: Oh look! Foreigners, let's drink with them because I am so excited. *runs over to table and interrupts rudely* Can we have a drink with you guys? Gan bei! *tries to pass around smokes* Foreigners: Okay, let's toast to new Chinese friends. (for the 10000000 time) *As the night goes on, this is repeated and the Chinese men become more arrogant with Chinese comments about the foreigners* Chinese guys: Let's toast again! *then make a joke in Chinese about the Chinese girl and how foreign men are stupid or something* *Chinese girl translates yet again or foreigners understand and are tired of the two faced bullshit* *Foreigners tell Chinese guys to screw off* *Chinese guys start swearing or insulting foreigners* *Foreigners lose it and attack Chinese guys* *Chinese guys play the victim card (like they always do)* *Media takes incident of annoying, insecure Chinese males and tries to turn it into big, bad, bully foreign attack.*

Apr 29, 2015 13:10 Report Abuse

dokken

How is that even a story? Any person reading the article wants to know what the motive was. Does the article give a motive? No. Super rubbish journalism.

Apr 28, 2015 17:13 Report Abuse

The-Final-Say

Its not to say who was right or wrong in this scenario. There are culture differences that both sides should understand more before pointing fingers. But I can say that I have had my fair share of annoying behavior in restaurants and other social situations. Most of the time, I accept this as typical local behavior and since I was in their environment and not my own, I tried to keep an open mind. But there have been times when people push the envelope with me. One time, there were 4 college aged guys walking down the street while I was walking with my woman, Chinese. One shouted "hello" at me and as it was night and I was in a hurry to go from point A to point B, I minded my own business and didn't reply. Well he got angry, wheeled around, and hit me on the head with a dirty snot rag. I turned around and shouted at him in Chinese "What do you think you are doing? Do you feel 4 men are enough to take me down when I get pissed, just because I am busy with my own things to focus on strangers around me?". One guy saw my determination to push back and said sorry to me and explained that his friend was drunk. I am a medium build fella but I always have an attitude of "go straight for the throat if it has to be him or me". I accepted that guy's explaination and left without further incident. I still had to consider that my first priority is to protect the woman, so wasn't willing to go too far. Another time, I was eating barbecue in one of those neighborhood mom and pop style restaurants, the kind where neighbors buy a box of beer, smoke a pack, and shout and drink while eating soggy peanuts or beans. That night, the restaurant was busy and I was with my woman, Chinese, and we had to cram into a table near some really loud and drunk men. Normally I ignore these guys and they ignore me too. But on this night, they must have ordered half of the menu and ran out of room on their table. So they put empty bottles where I was eating, on my table. I asked the waitress to clean it up and told her this wasn't my stuff. She understood and told those guys, as a courtesy, to keep from putting bottles on my table. I thought nothing more of it, except one drunk fella was eyeing my woman like crazy and another took offense to my words to the waitress, not exactly understanding what I really told her. When I went to pay the bill later, one thug wannabe decided to tell my woman he hated foreigners and wanted to fight me for that and was getting ready, without my knowing. She explained that I did not do anything rude and just asked the waitress to help clean up, nothing more. A 3rd guy at the table said sorry and told the drunk guy to knock it off. I did see him holding the guy back and thought it a bit strange but as he was lacking balance from drinking too much, I didn't pay much attention. We went home, nearby, without incident. But when we got home, she told me everything. I was a bit pissed and had my hand on my 32" baseball bat with the thinking of going back there and pulling off an Al Capone routine when she told me that all it would do is get me arrested or killed. Women are always smarter than men, I think, so I gave it up. But honestly, I truly hate men who are rude to women and if this was happening in this restaurant, as the details are a bit incomplete, it might be why the foreigners threw a beatdown. Now for those who read my accounts, I will say that I truly dislike fights but when it comes to men being gentlemen with ladies present, I draw the line. It is what it is. Most recently, this year, I was touring some sites and while in one museum I suddenly found myself surrounded by a group of tourists who were keen on taking my photo. In the past, I might have felt a bit uncomfortable with this but as my Chinese has improved I decided to play a joke with them by saying "I am not working here, just a tourist like you people". They all laughed and told me they hadn't many chances to meet a white guy, so I agreed and we all had a good time with it. Plus, a couple of women in the group were pretty darned hot, that's always a plus. But I'd like to think that as time goes forward, people learn from their experiences and become more tolerant to the cultural differences.

Apr 28, 2015 15:40 Report Abuse

Guest2191422

The story is incomplete. I get this all the time, having Chinese harassing me and my girl or my friends while having dinner in a restaurant or sitting in a bar/cafe. Sometimes they go as far as leaving their table to sit at yours, being loud around your table, keep sending you their stupid drinks/smoke, or offer to pay for your meal/drinks, just to show how "powerful" they are. The problem is, they are just to ignorant to understand that it is just rude to push yourself on others like that. A few weeks back while having a business meeting, a Chinese guy tried to pull that same thing on me, he just walked to our business table, sat and offer to pay for everything on the table. For a second I thought about smacking his face into the hot food........ If they don't send their kids around your table in a restaurant for their usual "hello" english practice,,,,.., then it will be another way to disturb you from having a quiet time..... Is very hard to keep your cool around them at times....Very annoying.......

Apr 28, 2015 14:16 Report Abuse

RiriRiri

Unrelated comment: I wonder how many versions of a story one could get from just asking the locals. Oh no wait, actually the comment is related, this is exactly how this article feels.

Apr 27, 2015 20:02 Report Abuse

kuntmans

Pesky foreigners stirring up trouble again.

Apr 27, 2015 19:52 Report Abuse

mrwiener

It is our lot in life.

Apr 27, 2015 22:07 Report Abuse

LD.Watson

Great journalism! ECC will soon will a Pulitzer with their awe-inspiring, investigative reporting!

Apr 27, 2015 19:39 Report Abuse

Englteachted

You do understand that this is not an actual news site like bbc? They simply repost stuff from Chinese blogs and news sites. I can't imagine any intelligent person expecting investigative journalism from this site. Even actual new outlets dropped investigative news. They simply republish articles from other sites.

Apr 27, 2015 20:29 Report Abuse

RachelDiD

I feel like there is much more to the story. If Chinese staff admitted that the idiots asked for it, then they asked for it. Chinese almost always side with each other, for right or wrong--so if the staff sided with the foreigners, it means Mr. Lanzhou and his Xian friend were seriously out of line.

Apr 27, 2015 19:10 Report Abuse

RachelDiD

Chinese are not nearly farsighted enough to care about repeat business. It's why people here will give terrible service, or flat-out steal the first time around. There are so many people in China that the next customer will come in right after you leave. So says their logic.

Apr 28, 2015 18:46 Report Abuse

Robk

I can almost 100% guarantee you these Chinese guys were insanely rude repeatedly and deserved it. I was on a trip with my Chinese wife and these types even piss her off. They pissed off our group of three foreign males by trying to out-drink us while repeatedly making stupid comments in Chinese. Good for them! Maybe other Chinese men will learn for these idiots being bottled. Guys should have stood up and just told them to screw off or get pelted rather than attacking them with bottles though...

Apr 29, 2015 13:12 Report Abuse