American Gayle, one of my evening students, went to Nanjing to teach English for a year.
She told me when she came back that people would stand in front of her, waggle a finger up at her nose, and say, “哈哈哈，外国人！外国人! / hāhāhā, wàiguórén! wàiguórén! / Hahaha, foreigner, foreigner!”
This annoyed her so much that she decided to fight back.
At 5’ 8”, she towers over a lot of Chinese people, so she’d point a finger down at their face and say, “哈哈哈，中国人！中国人! / hāhāhā, Zhōngguórén! Zhōngguórén! / Hahaha, Chinese person, Chinese person!”
At 5’ 8”, she towers over a lot of Chinese people, so she’d point a finger down at their face and say, “哈哈哈，中国人！中国人! / hāhāhā, Zhōngguórén! Zhōngguórén! / Hahaha, Chinese person, Chinese person!”
(China, 1980s)
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