tales from taiwan
one reason i hate going to 99 ranch market with my mom (besides the fact that she takes a painstakingly long time to buy a head of broccoli) is that chinese people are rude. flat out rude. they don't say please, thank you, excuse me. they just push and shove and don't care who or what is in front of them.
now in taiwan, it's like 100 times worse. imagine chinese/taiwanese people who have grown up on this tiny little island their entire life, subject to the same traditions of pushing, shoving, and knocking everything out of their way. i consider myself a pretty polite person. i say please and thank you. i'll get up if an eldery person enters the subway and i'm sitting. i usually let people walk into a door before me.
but in taiwan, i lose all my patience. these people are just disgustingly rude! we were on the bus in taipei today and we were getting off. this greasy, 50-something dirty looking taiwan man is ready to climb on the bus with no regards to anyone. i'm trying desperately to get off before he climbs on...now, i don't think i look too much like a man, aren't men taught these days to let ladies first? nope. not in taiwan. he pushes his way up while i'm trying to fight my way down without touching his sweat-stained shirt. mind you, i'm trying to make room for my 80 year old grandma to exit. by this time i'm just disgusted. i mutter under my breath (i guess it wasn't really a mutter) "thank you very much" very sarcastically and jump off. my mom and aunt and grandma follow behind me (with much effort as well) and my mom tells me the greasy man said in response to my "thank you very much" in chinese, "she must have come from america". that's damn right. we're taught manners you piece of shit rude disrespectful taiwanese man. if i had heard him...who knows what i would have said. probably something along the lines of "taiwanese men are fucking rude". it sounds worse in chinese i think.
story of the day. i think i'm ready to go home. though...i do still love taiwan. just not so much the humidity, the occasional rude men, and the dirtiness. other than that, it's all good.
one reason i hate going to 99 ranch market with my mom (besides the fact that she takes a painstakingly long time to buy a head of broccoli) is that chinese people are rude. flat out rude. they don't say please, thank you, excuse me. they just push and shove and don't care who or what is in front of them.
now in taiwan, it's like 100 times worse. imagine chinese/taiwanese people who have grown up on this tiny little island their entire life, subject to the same traditions of pushing, shoving, and knocking everything out of their way. i consider myself a pretty polite person. i say please and thank you. i'll get up if an eldery person enters the subway and i'm sitting. i usually let people walk into a door before me.
but in taiwan, i lose all my patience. these people are just disgustingly rude! we were on the bus in taipei today and we were getting off. this greasy, 50-something dirty looking taiwan man is ready to climb on the bus with no regards to anyone. i'm trying desperately to get off before he climbs on...now, i don't think i look too much like a man, aren't men taught these days to let ladies first? nope. not in taiwan. he pushes his way up while i'm trying to fight my way down without touching his sweat-stained shirt. mind you, i'm trying to make room for my 80 year old grandma to exit. by this time i'm just disgusted. i mutter under my breath (i guess it wasn't really a mutter) "thank you very much" very sarcastically and jump off. my mom and aunt and grandma follow behind me (with much effort as well) and my mom tells me the greasy man said in response to my "thank you very much" in chinese, "she must have come from america". that's damn right. we're taught manners you piece of shit rude disrespectful taiwanese man. if i had heard him...who knows what i would have said. probably something along the lines of "taiwanese men are fucking rude". it sounds worse in chinese i think.
story of the day. i think i'm ready to go home. though...i do still love taiwan. just not so much the humidity, the occasional rude men, and the dirtiness. other than that, it's all good.
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yes i'm sure he didn't mean that you MEAN MEAN femme!
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