Shanghaiist’s top 10 most shameful laowai of 2017
Or as Fat Shady might call them “gua laowai”
10) The Chainsmokers’ Alex Pall implies that if he brought his dog to China it would be eaten
That comment reduced Pall to giggles, unable to answer the following question, while the poor Chinese interviewer could only look helplessly back at the camera.
9) Foreigner on motorcycle gives driver the middle finger after bumping into his car
He also went on to spit on the driver’s car and cursed him out in the local Chengdu dialect. Gasp!
8) ‘This is China! Okay!’ Passerby cheered online for standing up to rude foreigners outside bar
The three foreign men had apparently stopped a taxi with two Chinese girls inside that was parked outside of a Fuzhou bar and were preventing it from leaving. When a passerby protested, one of them said: “You Chinese can die!”
7) Foreigners feast on Shanghai Metro, Chinese netizens complain about double standards
They later handed over a letter of apology to Shanghai’s metro operator, explaining that they now “realized how their own behavior had disturbed order on public transportation.”
6) Sneaky foreigner snatches shopkeeper’s cell phone right from under her nose
Considering how smoothly he does this, you’d think he’d have heard of these things called surveillance cameras.
5) Hong Kong cabby shows off his English with profanity-laced rant against foreign pedestrian
“You walking? This is the road, pedestrians right there!” the cabby points. “You punch my car. You illegal! This not right. This is Hong Kong!”
4) Spanish man to be deported after being caught having very public sex with woman in Chengdu
Well, that’s one way to get kicked out of the country.
3) Chinese netizens tell Gigi Hadid that she’s not welcome at Victoria’s Secret show in Shanghai
Supermodel Gigi Hadid was excluded from this year’s Victoria’s Secret fashion show in Shanghai, apparently because of a video of her making “squinty-eyes” alongside a Buddha-shaped cookie.
2) LiAngelo Ball, UCLA teammates back home after Trump talks to Xi about shoplifting incident
Once back home, LiAngelo Ball said that he had stolen from a Louis Vuitton shop in Hangzhou because his teammates had done it first. Later, he also claimed that the only reason that he thanked Donald Trump was because his school had made him do it.
1) ‘American’ English teacher brags about how easy it is to hook up with Chinese women in shameless ad
“It’s pretty easy to get a girl here in China, especially for night one stands (sic),” said “Jack,” who claims to be an “American” English teacher working in China.
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