Quote Originally Posted by jape View Post
Too much bullshit western arrogance knocking the Chinese is what comes over on here, too often. Ex-pat club of cynical westerners who know best and everything they see is wrong, stupid, TIC...
Actually Jape i could not agree with you more, one of the things that has absolutely not changed in me since i moved here is how i hate to see some foreigners shit on everything about china. That there is an attitude, not longevity of expatriation. You meet people here who have been in china two months and already reckon that everything they do is superior to their hosts, from the way they eat to the shape of their poo. I don't like that attitude and get embarrassed when i see it. These dickheads make the rest of us look bad and can *uck off right back to where they came from. Pardon my languag*.

Part of the price of accepting a foreign culture though is dealing with what you think is wrong. We're talking about a place where it took 5 minutes for someone to muster up the courage to help ChinaV out from hanging upside down by the leg in a rubbish filled ditch for fear of what might happen to them. You WILL get screwed. I always try to be charming and pleasant to my hosts and am grateful for every day they let me spend here, but if the 'accident situation' arises i don't know. If i'm in the wrong i will suck it up and accept the consequences, of that i'm sure. But in the case that i get in a crash for someone else's mistake, that i'm ok and they are too... i don't know man, i may just run. I would never leave someone on the side of the road, i couldn't bring myself to do that. But if they were in the wrong, they were ok and i could get out of there, i don't think i'd wait around to see what the police think about it.

Having written this might make me look like a right asshole, that may be, but understand that the minute i set foot back home these attitudes change. For here i don't know, i'm still undecided about the best way to act in a situation like that and am open to debate.