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[–]ellaminnowp 256 points 15 hours ago*
Interesting story. My husband and I took our honeymoon to China. We landed
in Shanghai and walked around looking at the skyline as the sun was setting.
I noticed someone walk in front of me, stop and "take a selfie"...
Obviously with me in the background. Then I started noticing more people
walking near me and taking photos. Not a ton, but definitely three or four.
Over the next two weeks, I would constantly notice people taking photos of
me surreptitiously. Eventually, it got to the point that, when I noticed
people taking photos, I just invited them over. And my husband would take a
photo of them with his camera. It was bizarre; I almost felt like a
celebrity. For the record, I'm 5'6" (not even that tall, but tall by their
standards), blindingly pale (which they love) and have fiery red hair. They
were all the sweetest people though. :)
Edit to add photos: Adventures of the White Devil in China
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[–]quantmemaybe 57 points 12 hours ago
Wow! I used to work for a small company that made specialized equipment for
the railway industry. We had a big contract in China -- this was like 30
years ago when China was just opening up .
We literally travelled all over China on their railroad four of five months.
Once we got outside Beijing we found that just about everywhere we went we
were the first westerners that had been there.
It was bizarre, I had a blond haired blue eyed co-worker. Guy had a big
blond beard and was like 6' 6" and covered in tattoos.
Everywhere we went people would literally follow this guy around -- like
crowds of people. When we would eat, people came over and took pictures with
him -- like a hundred pictures over the course of dinner. And they'd touch
him. Touch his beard, touch his hair and look into his blue eyes.
I'm really surprised 30 years later that this still happens, especially in
Beijing.
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[–]♀JoNightshade 17 points 7 hours ago
It doesn't, for the most part, but in tourist areas there are also Chinese
tourists who have come from other parts of China to see the sights. They may
be from areas that have fewer Westerners. And then there are always people
who want to practice their English, so you get approached all the time for
that.
The one place I had a serious "first white man" experience was when I went
to Gansu. I ate at a restaurant with my mom and by the end of the meal there
was literally a crowd outside the window, gathered there to watch us eat.
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[–]quantmemaybe 16 points 6 hours ago
When I used to work at that firm we had a saying - for every 100 miles you
go west of Beijing, you go back 100 years in time.
By the time you hit the western deserts you found people living a nomadic
existence or in caves. I bet that some didn't even know about the rise and
fall of communism.
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[–]♀JoNightshade 9 points 6 hours ago
That is mind-boggling to think about. Stuff changes SO fast in China, it
must have been amazing to see how it was when it first opened up. If you
haven't been back since, you probably wouldn't even recognize most of the
places you've been.
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[–]elliver 80 points 14 hours ago
I had this experience also. :)
I am 6'1" and blonde and there would be people not even trying to hide that
they were taking a picture of me. A couple of them actually asked if they
could take one with me, and a group of guys stood on their tiptoes as they
walked past to see if they could be taller than me. It was pretty funny
overall, great trip.
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[–]tealparadise 8 points 5 hours ago
It's less common these days in Japan, but people would want pictures of me
doing... Japanese-y things, because it really is kind of a curiosity to see
a white girl doing them. Like being in traditional yukata at a festival, or
visiting obscure Shinto sights. Not during everyday life though, not anymore.
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[–]thevoiceofzeke 25 points 12 hours ago
Eventually, it got to the point that, when I noticed people taking photos, I
just invited them over.
Props to you for handling this so gracefully. If any of them had been actual
creeps, they probably would have been mortified by your invitation. I'm
glad they turned out to just be curious people :).
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[–]jmpags 13 points 14 hours ago
this is hilarious! I had a similar thing happen in Disney World once... a
group of Chinese ladies asked my mother (blonde, blue eyes) and me (dark
hair, dark eyes) to take a picture with them.... it was very awkward at the
time, but interesting now that I hear your story!
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[–]nervous_lobster 14 points 13 hours ago
I've been in hundreds of pictures in China! Pictures that I didn't know were
being taken, pictures of me where I smiled, pictures where I made an angry
face, pictures with Chinese people (or their kids).
We were on the Metro once and a guy had a huge camera/lense... we saw him
point it at us and then zoom it in on my face... that one was too much WTF
for me so I put my hand over my face. A colleague had an uncomfortably long
video made of her, also on the metro.
Once when I was on the Great Wall sitting next to an old woman, she reached
over and took my hand and spent a few minutes running her fingers over my
skin.
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[–]vocaloidict 2 points 6 hours ago
Whoa... You just had your fortune read, and what she saw was so amazing/
horrific that she couldn't bring herself to let you know!
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[–]nervous_lobster 3 points 6 hours ago
She couldn't have even if she wanted to; I don't speak Chinese :)
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[–]EmptyMargins 11 points 12 hours ago
That's hilarious.
I have a friend who, after returning from Japan, told me that I'd be a
superstar over there, because they love taking pictures of tall and pale
westerners. He said he met a 6'5" or so Norwegian guy who was being followed
around by groups of people taking pictures around him.
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[–]♂thesingingnerd 12 points 10 hours ago
I think we in Europe and North America often take for granted the ease with
which different races and cultures can intermingle. A white person in China,
especially a rarity among whites like a redhead or tall person, is like
seeing a deer in Manhattan. People want to take pictures.
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[–]BRBNiggagottadoodoo 11 points 10 hours ago
Holy shit. I was expecting your story to be an exaggeration but those photos
shows true tales yo.
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[–]ellaminnowp 7 points 9 hours ago
Yes, there were plenty more photos, but they're on my husband's computer,
and I was too lazy to search through his 1000+ total photos from our trip. (
Not 1000+ of me and the locals. He just takes lots of pictures of everything
).
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[–]Phreakhead 9 points 12 hours ago
Well there are surprisingly few white people in China. For them it's like
spotting Bigfoot.
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[–]♀sapjeee 7 points 12 hours ago
Yes, I had the same. I studied in Beijing China for 3 months. I'm 6 foot
tall and have long blonde hair so I had it a lot! Every major tourist spot
and even when we were at the country side people would just randomly stop
and take pictures. My (also blonde) mate and I just made silly faces or gave
thumbs up which resulted in a lot funny moments. Sometimes even free booze
from the boss if it was at one particular small restaurant near our dorm
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[–]whispen 4 points 12 hours ago
Do you have a favorite rock band?
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[–]♀sapjeee 4 points 12 hours ago
My favorite is probably Two Door Cinema Club, but that's more indierock. Why?
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[–]♀fuckityfuckfuckf_ck 4 points 7 hours ago
Just have to jump in and say that your zebra dress/orange sunhat combo is
amazing.
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[–]ellaminnowp 4 points 6 hours ago
Thanks! My in-laws family friend owns a ton of high end clothing stores in
China, so he almost forced his entire stock on me. Anything I wanted in his
stores, he handed me for free. Needless to say, half my wardrobe is from
China now! I love that dress... I left the sun hat in China, though... It
wouldn't fit in my luggage on the return trip. :(
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[–]♀JoNightshade 5 points 7 hours ago
I spent a year teaching in a "small" city in China. I'm a tall, slender
white female, so I had people snapping photos of me basically any time I
went out. It was really fun at first, like being a celebrity, but by the end
of the year I was doing things like turning my back or making faces at the
moment the sneaky photographer tried to take his/her shot. It got REALLY old.
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[–]sriracha_fiend 2 points 7 hours ago
I'm adopted from China, and I always felt like I would blend in really well
there. :( I feel like if I went, since my Chinese is horrible, people would
think I'm nuts if I tried communicating with them in broken Chinese. lol
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[–]ellaminnowp 2 points 6 hours ago
My husband was born in China, but moved to the US when he was 2. So he
speaks a little bit of Chinese. He can't read or write. And he doesn't know
a lot of common terms. Suffice it to say, him trying to order me "chicken
nuggets" at McDonalds was hilarious. I think he told them something along
the lines of "chicken pieces" and they ended up just serving us every
chicken item on the menu. (McDonald's serves fried chicken, like KFC. So we
got a loooot of drums and thighs, etc.) It's an adventure! Don't be scared!
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[–]♀riseandrise [score hidden] 2 hours ago
My mom told me a similar story about her trip to Japan! She has bright red
hair and people kept wanting to stroke it or take pictures with her.
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[–]dorothy_zbornak_esq [score hidden] an hour ago
Ohhh yeah they love white people there. The first day of my trip I was in
Tiananmen Square and suddenly I felt someone pressing against my side. I
freaked out thinking I was being pickpocketed, but it was just a teenage
girl whose dad was standing nearby with a camera. It was actually kind of
fun sometimes, like being a celebrity without all the accompanying terrible
invasions of privacy and then you get to go back to normal.
EDIT: a word
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发信人: pantyhose (pantyhose), 信区: Military
标 题: 即使是今天的北京，白妞仍然被中国人争相合影，向发现宝藏一样br />
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Feb 18 01:53:38 2015, 美东)
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/comments/2w6uol/have_you_ever_
[–]ellaminnowp 256 points 15 hours ago*
Interesting story. My husband and I took our honeymoon to China. We landed
in Shanghai and walked around looking at the skyline as the sun was setting.
I noticed someone walk in front of me, stop and "take a selfie"...
Obviously with me in the background. Then I started noticing more people
walking near me and taking photos. Not a ton, but definitely three or four.
Over the next two weeks, I would constantly notice people taking photos of
me surreptitiously. Eventually, it got to the point that, when I noticed
people taking photos, I just invited them over. And my husband would take a
photo of them with his camera. It was bizarre; I almost felt like a
celebrity. For the record, I'm 5'6" (not even that tall, but tall by their
standards), blindingly pale (which they love) and have fiery red hair. They
were all the sweetest people though. :)
Edit to add photos: Adventures of the White Devil in China
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[–]quantmemaybe 57 points 12 hours ago
Wow! I used to work for a small company that made specialized equipment for
the railway industry. We had a big contract in China -- this was like 30
years ago when China was just opening up .
We literally travelled all over China on their railroad four of five months.
Once we got outside Beijing we found that just about everywhere we went we
were the first westerners that had been there.
It was bizarre, I had a blond haired blue eyed co-worker. Guy had a big
blond beard and was like 6' 6" and covered in tattoos.
Everywhere we went people would literally follow this guy around -- like
crowds of people. When we would eat, people came over and took pictures with
him -- like a hundred pictures over the course of dinner. And they'd touch
him. Touch his beard, touch his hair and look into his blue eyes.
I'm really surprised 30 years later that this still happens, especially in
Beijing.
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[–]♀JoNightshade 17 points 7 hours ago
It doesn't, for the most part, but in tourist areas there are also Chinese
tourists who have come from other parts of China to see the sights. They may
be from areas that have fewer Westerners. And then there are always people
who want to practice their English, so you get approached all the time for
that.
The one place I had a serious "first white man" experience was when I went
to Gansu. I ate at a restaurant with my mom and by the end of the meal there
was literally a crowd outside the window, gathered there to watch us eat.
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[–]quantmemaybe 16 points 6 hours ago
When I used to work at that firm we had a saying - for every 100 miles you
go west of Beijing, you go back 100 years in time.
By the time you hit the western deserts you found people living a nomadic
existence or in caves. I bet that some didn't even know about the rise and
fall of communism.
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[–]♀JoNightshade 9 points 6 hours ago
That is mind-boggling to think about. Stuff changes SO fast in China, it
must have been amazing to see how it was when it first opened up. If you
haven't been back since, you probably wouldn't even recognize most of the
places you've been.
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[–]elliver 80 points 14 hours ago
I had this experience also. :)
I am 6'1" and blonde and there would be people not even trying to hide that
they were taking a picture of me. A couple of them actually asked if they
could take one with me, and a group of guys stood on their tiptoes as they
walked past to see if they could be taller than me. It was pretty funny
overall, great trip.
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[–]tealparadise 8 points 5 hours ago
It's less common these days in Japan, but people would want pictures of me
doing... Japanese-y things, because it really is kind of a curiosity to see
a white girl doing them. Like being in traditional yukata at a festival, or
visiting obscure Shinto sights. Not during everyday life though, not anymore.
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[–]thevoiceofzeke 25 points 12 hours ago
Eventually, it got to the point that, when I noticed people taking photos, I
just invited them over.
Props to you for handling this so gracefully. If any of them had been actual
creeps, they probably would have been mortified by your invitation. I'm
glad they turned out to just be curious people :).
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[–]jmpags 13 points 14 hours ago
this is hilarious! I had a similar thing happen in Disney World once... a
group of Chinese ladies asked my mother (blonde, blue eyes) and me (dark
hair, dark eyes) to take a picture with them.... it was very awkward at the
time, but interesting now that I hear your story!
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[–]nervous_lobster 14 points 13 hours ago
I've been in hundreds of pictures in China! Pictures that I didn't know were
being taken, pictures of me where I smiled, pictures where I made an angry
face, pictures with Chinese people (or their kids).
We were on the Metro once and a guy had a huge camera/lense... we saw him
point it at us and then zoom it in on my face... that one was too much WTF
for me so I put my hand over my face. A colleague had an uncomfortably long
video made of her, also on the metro.
Once when I was on the Great Wall sitting next to an old woman, she reached
over and took my hand and spent a few minutes running her fingers over my
skin.
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[–]vocaloidict 2 points 6 hours ago
Whoa... You just had your fortune read, and what she saw was so amazing/
horrific that she couldn't bring herself to let you know!
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[–]nervous_lobster 3 points 6 hours ago
She couldn't have even if she wanted to; I don't speak Chinese :)
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[–]EmptyMargins 11 points 12 hours ago
That's hilarious.
I have a friend who, after returning from Japan, told me that I'd be a
superstar over there, because they love taking pictures of tall and pale
westerners. He said he met a 6'5" or so Norwegian guy who was being followed
around by groups of people taking pictures around him.
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[–]♂thesingingnerd 12 points 10 hours ago
I think we in Europe and North America often take for granted the ease with
which different races and cultures can intermingle. A white person in China,
especially a rarity among whites like a redhead or tall person, is like
seeing a deer in Manhattan. People want to take pictures.
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[–]BRBNiggagottadoodoo 11 points 10 hours ago
Holy shit. I was expecting your story to be an exaggeration but those photos
shows true tales yo.
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[–]ellaminnowp 7 points 9 hours ago
Yes, there were plenty more photos, but they're on my husband's computer,
and I was too lazy to search through his 1000+ total photos from our trip. (
Not 1000+ of me and the locals. He just takes lots of pictures of everything
).
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[–]Phreakhead 9 points 12 hours ago
Well there are surprisingly few white people in China. For them it's like
spotting Bigfoot.
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[–]♀sapjeee 7 points 12 hours ago
Yes, I had the same. I studied in Beijing China for 3 months. I'm 6 foot
tall and have long blonde hair so I had it a lot! Every major tourist spot
and even when we were at the country side people would just randomly stop
and take pictures. My (also blonde) mate and I just made silly faces or gave
thumbs up which resulted in a lot funny moments. Sometimes even free booze
from the boss if it was at one particular small restaurant near our dorm
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[–]whispen 4 points 12 hours ago
Do you have a favorite rock band?
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[–]♀sapjeee 4 points 12 hours ago
My favorite is probably Two Door Cinema Club, but that's more indierock. Why?
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[–]♀fuckityfuckfuckf_ck 4 points 7 hours ago
Just have to jump in and say that your zebra dress/orange sunhat combo is
amazing.
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[–]ellaminnowp 4 points 6 hours ago
Thanks! My in-laws family friend owns a ton of high end clothing stores in
China, so he almost forced his entire stock on me. Anything I wanted in his
stores, he handed me for free. Needless to say, half my wardrobe is from
China now! I love that dress... I left the sun hat in China, though... It
wouldn't fit in my luggage on the return trip. :(
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[–]♀JoNightshade 5 points 7 hours ago
I spent a year teaching in a "small" city in China. I'm a tall, slender
white female, so I had people snapping photos of me basically any time I
went out. It was really fun at first, like being a celebrity, but by the end
of the year I was doing things like turning my back or making faces at the
moment the sneaky photographer tried to take his/her shot. It got REALLY old.
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[–]sriracha_fiend 2 points 7 hours ago
I'm adopted from China, and I always felt like I would blend in really well
there. :( I feel like if I went, since my Chinese is horrible, people would
think I'm nuts if I tried communicating with them in broken Chinese. lol
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[–]ellaminnowp 2 points 6 hours ago
My husband was born in China, but moved to the US when he was 2. So he
speaks a little bit of Chinese. He can't read or write. And he doesn't know
a lot of common terms. Suffice it to say, him trying to order me "chicken
nuggets" at McDonalds was hilarious. I think he told them something along
the lines of "chicken pieces" and they ended up just serving us every
chicken item on the menu. (McDonald's serves fried chicken, like KFC. So we
got a loooot of drums and thighs, etc.) It's an adventure! Don't be scared!
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[–]♀riseandrise [score hidden] 2 hours ago
My mom told me a similar story about her trip to Japan! She has bright red
hair and people kept wanting to stroke it or take pictures with her.
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[–]dorothy_zbornak_esq [score hidden] an hour ago
Ohhh yeah they love white people there. The first day of my trip I was in
Tiananmen Square and suddenly I felt someone pressing against my side. I
freaked out thinking I was being pickpocketed, but it was just a teenage
girl whose dad was standing nearby with a camera. It was actually kind of
fun sometimes, like being a celebrity without all the accompanying terrible
invasions of privacy and then you get to go back to normal.
EDIT: a word
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