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Things Virtual Reality China Will Not Prep You For (And What You Can Do Instead)

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blue4130
10/31/08

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You missed the key points.

Things that are rude here (in China) are not taboo.

Pissing in the street

a$$l3ess pants on kids so they can crap in the street

spitting

basically expelling any bodily fluid

cutting in line

starring

should I continue?
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Kaiser-Machead
10/31/08

@blue4130: So long as it ain't on my shoe, it's cool. It'll make a heck of a conversation when you get back home....provided you don't live there.
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Acerbus Letalis
10/30/08

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I'm never going to China.
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Kaiser-Machead
10/30/08

@takashimiike 7 aka Dl33t: People I know who've gone there tell me they've all had a good time.
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LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
10/30/08

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I totally understand this. When I was getting my MBA I we were all required to take an international business class to better understand foreign cultures.

For example, the etiquitte of presenting a business card in most asian countries by preforming with a small bow with the card gripped with to hands and facing the reader's directions.

They always told us to assume there was much more to understanding the proper behavior expected in a foreign country.

I guess this article would be part of the "much more" they were talkin' about!
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Eric1285
10/30/08

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Nothing will prepare you for the sea of people. Get ready to fight for the right to get onto a subway train. Oh, and even though there are people everywhere, apparently they take offense if you accidentally bump into them while you're in a hurry. This happened to me in one of the subway stations and the guy who I bumped into actually chased me down and put his hand on my shoulder to try and spin me around and confront me. After being shouted at in angry Chinese (I speak mandarin, but I have a difficult understanding people who are shouting and I don't know very many of the nastier words) I pushed him aside and turned away. He comes after me again, and I strongly consider just wailing on him to teach him a lesson, since I'm bigger than 99% of the people in China. Luckily, I remembered that I was in China and they might not take too kindly to that type of behavior. In the end, I just turned and walked away.
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Kaiser-Machead
10/30/08

@Eric1285: After over a decade of solid commute on the subway and canadian metro, I think I've had at least one minor training course. I'm ready sir! I'm ready!
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Rustabout
10/31/08

@Kaiser-Machead's LEGO Hug Machine (with Cookies): Canadian subway? Pffft!

Give us a break!!!

you can't even remotely understand the meaning of "rush hour", if all you've seen is the Canadian subway...
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
10/31/08

@Kaiser-Machead's LEGO Hug Machine (with Cookies): Next time you're on the subway, as the guy next to you to sit on your face, then you'll be ready.

Ahhhhhhh!!! But then again, maybe one shouldn't be ready for that...

I've been to China, nice place, it's home to them and they're use to it. I had a hard time though, I take the stairs most places I go just in case I end up being crammed inside of a elevator instead.
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Kaiser-Machead
10/31/08

@Rustabout: Actually the most I've seen is the NYC subway, and I was just joking. I know we're not saturated like those folk.
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Kaiser-Machead
10/31/08

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: I'm not sure how that could happen without terrible violence.
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Kaiser-Machead
10/30/08

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They should let Rockstar get a piece of the action. We'll be able to throw people off of roofs and run amok, and have diplomatic immunity!
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