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Q: Best reaction when someone touches you?
Last night I went to a fake market where they sell loads of cheap stuff for foreigners. The sellers there were incredibly aggressive, barging in front of me and yelling in English for me to go here or there.
At one point I was looking at something, and, deciding it was crap quality, went out. The seller, a woman, cried out 'F. you' loudly as I went out. Another, a guy, literally grabbed me by the arm and tried to drag me to his stand to look at his stuff. I almost punched him.
Has this ever happened to anyone before? I remember reading a story on the net how a foreigner fought back in the same situation, only to have the sellers rush him and beat him. No cameras, no blame.
12 years 36 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
Have a Chinese friend to go with you. I feel those people behave little better if you go with a Chinese friend.
Buy a cheap pair of earbuds. You don't have to have them plugged in, just put the plug in your pocket. Of course they will still try, but not as many and they don't try as hard.
when they ask me i say meiyou qien, to keep it lite. but if they get to pushy i give them a look that says i will kill you they seem to understand that
Yell a bit in Chinese....
As for the touching....once, when I was showing around Shanghai to my brother and his family and that we went to this kind of place as a "tourist" spot, someone touched my young nephew..... I just grabbed and squeezed his hand telling not to do it again...
Just make yourself clear that you don't want people to mess around with you and that you want to buy things quietly..
Welcome to most shopping experiences in China outside the designed for foreigner markets and shopping malls!!
I tell them "don't touch" one time one yelled "You're mean" as I pushed past her.
I always push there hand away and say hands off Don't touch
Tell them Gun third tone. 滚！
Worst word u can say in that situation.
if it's a woman can you touch her back hehehe "kiss me and i'll kiis you back"
