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[quote=SHESGOTTOBE,298524]Hohoho! Did I ever?

I can understand if the Chinese would stare at tall, blue-eyed blonde foreigners. They look very different from the Chinese, after all. What amuses me is that I was stared at in Beijing cosmopolitan city even though I have almost the same skin color, same black eyes, same black hair as any Chinese girl would have. The only difference is that I have bigger eyes. Even though there were times when I got mistaken for a Chinese, I still got stared at.

Most of the time, they are content staring from afar, I’m thinking out of curiosity and that was it. Maybe I was dressed differently, who knows? However, on one occasion, I was with my Chinese friend waiting to ride a subway, when my friend started acting weird, like he was uneasy. When I turned around, I saw this Chinese guy two feet behind me scrutinizing me from head to toe. He didn’t even notice (or probably didn’t cared) that I was already looking at him because he was too busy scrutinizing me. O_o  I don’t know how long he was doing that but I was floored at the boldness. It felt weird at first but it doesn’t bother me now. Heck, I was stared at (and followed) in Hongkong, too. It’s just part of the whole experience.

Don’t get embarrassed about it, Leonardo. I know my friend felt the same way so I never even mentioned it. I know it’s just a curiosity thing and yea, we find it amusing, probably just as amusing as the Chinese finds us. Us foreigners are also curious about the Chinese. We just have a different way of showing it, like going to China to mingle with the locals, for example. Another thing is that, many, if not majority of Beijing and Shanghai residents are immigrant workers from other smaller cities, which could explain why.

I never got approached with ‘May I practice English with you’, probably because I am not white (there’s a stereotype that only or all whites can speak English) but I consider it a blessing because I have heard of nightmare stories about those trying to ‘practice their English’. Some would try to talk to me in Chinese but almost always it’s because they’re trying to sell something to me.
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