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Thread: When China will be an economically RICH country?
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[quote=CHRISWAUGHBJ,228500]Sanyachina, calm down, please. I did not in any way deny that cheats exist, I said you were overstating the case. There's a difference, a very big difference. I have had plenty of people try to cheat me because of the colour of my skin, but the only places I know of where the prices would be inflated so drastically are places like the Silk Market/Xiushui or Hongqiao Market in Beijing- places mostly frequented by tourists. And I've seen plenty of tourists bargain the prices down to reasonable levels. In real-world, non-tourist China cheats exist, yes, but I've never come across any- beggars, fruit sellers, whatever, who've tried to cheat me to the degree you suggest. Let me add my own story to illustrate my point: When I first moved to this area and first went to get beer from my local beer-seller, I took empty bottles to recycle. He tried to charge me 2 yuan per bottle for my new beers. I said, no, 1.5, I'm recycling bottles and that's what everybody charges. It took a couple of minutes, but I called him on his little attempt at cheating me, stared him down, and I've never had any trouble with him since. That's the kind of cheating regular people in regular life have to deal with. Most people, though, are like the guy in your story.[/quote]
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