Honest question: what's /r/China for?

is it dedicated to shitting on Chinese people?

No it isn't. If we all came here and bitched about every negative thing that we come up against daily, there wouldn't be room for anything else.

Let's talk about all the shit I'm not bitching about today...

We can begin before I'm even out of bed, when the hammering and banging upstairs begins before 7am. Hell, even well before that with the pointless yet ceaseless horn-honking from the bus drivers, taxi drivers, and lorry drivers that goes on all night long.

Then, how about the neighbor who lets their dog pee in the elevator but they don't give a damn so don't bother to clean it up, leaving it for everyone to deal with.

We can move on to the pedestrians who don't pay any attention to/care about others, the drivers who don't either, and how just walking to the subway sation can sometimes seem like a battle of wits. Let's just skip the subway stories altogether.

Step into a shop and deal with people pushing their way in front of you, the shop keeper who has open contempt for you, and the idiot who tries to put my bread in a bag that's smaller than the bread itself so instead of getting a larger bag she smashes down the bread to get it into the too-small bag.

More pushing at the elevator and then the woman who is screaming into her cellphone in the overcrowded lift and having other people's sweaty bodies squeezed up against mine.

Now the new coworker, hired yesterday, who wants to know why I'm so unattractive.

Shall I go on OP? No, this isn't a forum to shit on Chinese people. I think the vast majority of us never even mention things like this... daily things that can be exacerbating but we learn to deal with it. Sometimes it leaks out here, how can it not?

Let me finish by saying that I love my Chinese friends. They are there for me without questions asked, warm, helpful, funny, smart, and truly good people whom I will love until my last day on earth. And... they all speak my first language far better than I speak theirs.

The good is far greater than the bad. I love my life here.

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