In recent years, it seems that many people in China like to buy rainbow umbrellas when they buy umbrellas. In fact, in the eyes of foreigners, the rainbow represents homosexuality. Historically, Western countries believe that colors such as green, pink, purple and so on are symbols of homosexuality, and later in the gay anti-discrimination movement, the rainbow flag was used to represent their pride .
If you're a man walking down the road with a rainbow umbrella on a rainy day, and a foreigner happens to pass you by, his/her smile might be more meaningful.
2. Fingers to indicate numbers
The use of two hands to indicate 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 is similar at home and abroad. But it is different when comparing 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Foreigners need to use two hands to compare the numbers 6-10, one hand with five fingers open to represent 5, the other hand to compare 1-5, the two hands add up to 6-10.
3. resist the death not to wear couple's clothing
Couple's clothing is a couple of sweet feelings between a performance, but also show love the usual methods. The people who wear it are happy, and the people who look at it are envious and jealous. But foreign boys feel that this is a very cheesy (a little greasy, a little pretentious, a little disgusting) behavior, they can not understand, in the end, what kind of courage is needed to wear such lovely clothes, "love" does not need to use this form of sissy presentation.
On the contrary, couples tattoos in the eyes of many of them is quite cool, for example, the girl will be tattooed on the wrist of a "beauty" beauty, the boy will be tattooed on the wrist of a "beast" beast, together is the "beauty and the beast". "Beauty and the Beast" ...
4. The onlookers have said...
In China, there are always a lot of onlookers wherever something happens, and they can be witnesses, but most of them just join in the fun.
But in Western culture, if you're going to watch something happen, it becomes your business, and the onlookers have to take care of it, and they can't stay out of it anymore. So, even if foreigners are eager to know what's going on, reason will tell them not to go there, no one wants to get involved, so they won't choose to watch.
5. Umbrellas in summer
I have a friend who goes to school in the US, and she says that even if it's hot in the summer, she's too embarrassed to use an umbrella to cover up the sun because no one else is doing it, and she'll get talked about. Sometimes when it rains a little, she won't use an umbrella because no one does, she will wear a hat or prefer to get wet, just like the Romans do. Foreigners, especially those from Scandinavia, the UK, and the US, love to embrace the sun in the summer and want to have a bronzed complexion.
Foreigners don't understand the idea of an umbrella in the summer, especially if it's an ordinary umbrella.
6. Help your girlfriend or wife to carry a backpack
When shopping in China, girls will let their boyfriends or husbands to carry a backpack, a pink bag, a red bag, a small bag, a big bag, a shoulder bag, a diagonal bag, all kinds of bags they can carry. But you almost impossible to see foreign men to help female companions to carry the bag, in their view, the bag is very lightweight, it is not worth their hands, and detrimental to the image of the "big man", a man carrying a lady's bag, but also too effeminate!
7. Square dancing and walking backwards
Morning or evening, the domestic elderly will be in the playground, square, park exercise, such as square dancing. In fact, after watching the domestic square dance, foreigners think that square dance is a very good fitness program and worth learning.
But they can't understand why the domestic old people have to walk backwards all the time and press their legs from time to time.
8. About privacy
In the United States, there is a kind of protective film to prevent people from peeking at the content of your phone. When you put it on, the screen is gray when you look at it from the side.
And in the domestic subway, buses and other public **** transportation, if you are sending WeChat or watching a video, there will always be a person standing next to you, silently read your phone above the conversation, or silently watch the video, the person does not care about the content of the chat or video, just simply want to know what you are doing. In the West, it's important to remember: "Don't look, don't look, don't look." That's someone else's privacy.
9. Like to take photos with foreigners
Once I took a foreign friend to Beijing, he was taking photos in front of the Forbidden City, and suddenly a woman holding a baby pulled him, shoved the baby into his hands, and said, "photo, one photo," and from then on the baby got one more photo with an unknown person, and then the baby got one more photo with an unknown person, and then the baby got one more photo with an unknown person. Since then, this baby has had one more photo taken with an unknown foreigner. The foreign friend and I said "you like to take pictures with me, I should be considered an attraction."
Also on the same day, he also saw a woman in front of him taking pictures of her family, who were standing not far away from him and were getting closer to where he was standing... The foreigner thought: "If you want to take a picture with me, you can ask me openly and honestly."