{"id":107,"date":"2008-09-30T20:51:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T00:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2008-09-30T21:01:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T01:01:26","slug":"laowai-foreigner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/2008\/09\/laowai-foreigner\/","title":{"rendered":"Laowai = foreigner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;laowai&#8221; in China is advised not to take some of local behavior too personally but to be flexible and prepared for people to act very differently.\u00a0 Spitting is very common, even indoors.\u00a0 Pushing and jostling in crowded areas, jumping ahead of people in line (queues), as well as ignoring rules (such as &#8220;no smoking&#8221;) happen often.\u00a0 Locals often laugh aloud at foreigners and catcall &#8212; actually yelling out &#8220;laowai&#8221; as they walk by.\u00a0 Anyone who looks obviously different will be intensely stared at.\u00a0 These behaviors are seen more frequently in the rural parts of the country but also take place in the large, metropolitan areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;laowai&#8221; in China is advised not to take some of local behavior too personally but to be flexible and prepared for people to act very differently.\u00a0 Spitting is very common, even indoors.\u00a0 Pushing and jostling in crowded areas, jumping ahead of people in line (queues), as well as ignoring rules (such as &#8220;no smoking&#8221;) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}