So what do you do when the tourists from other countries are complaining about a specific tourist group – in this case the Chinese?  Well in Switzerland apparently you do something rather unorthodox and slightly insulting and create a special train just for them…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-34085270

I rather find this whole scenario economically impractical and morally insulting.  So you are a tourist spot which is trying to attract more Chinese people through advertisement campaigns and decide because other tourists have complained about some Chinese tourists being loud, rude, obnoxious, and spitting on the trains, you are going to isolate them…  The separate train must cost you more money than you currently are spending to run the transportation system, you must employ more people to “keep the train cleaner,” and how are you going to be able to tell who is a Chinese tourist from China versus the Chinese looking tourists from Canada, the U.S., etc.?

Frankly it looks like you are in for one hell of a discrimination law suit.  As an ABC I sure as hell do not want to end up on a train with people who are apparently spitting and being rude to others.  As a human being, I think it is morally wrong to single out an entire group for something that a handful of people are doing.  Wouldn’t it be more educational and preventative for all involved to have a Chinese speaking translator instruct the Chinese tour groups to not participate in bad behavior?

While I understand according to the article that there are “netzins” complaining about the unfairness and how the Swiss should be excited for Chinese tourists dollars, I am also in agreement with the other unfortunate tourists who are stuck with bad behavior.  Seriously, if you are not a rude, obnoxious, and spitting tourist then for Christ sake go and educate those who are.  Nobody should be discriminated against and nobody should exhibit poor manners either.

I find it interesting  that some people band together in mass unthink when supposedly a “foreigner” attacks someone recognized as “a Chinese national.”  It happened to me in Shanghai this past trip where some rude guy who decided to sit down in a spot I saved for a friend.

When I told the guy that he could sit there until my friend came, he started yelling at me and raised his arm.  I thought he was going to slap me so after he finished his tirade – well maybe he didn’t finish and I just cut him off.  Anyhow, he made the following points:

1) China does not have a reservation policy,

2) I was in China and should act more “Chinese,”

3) I was being rude because I would not let him sit,

4) My friend can just sit somewhere else,

5) Look the foreigner is attacking me – “look this foreigner is trying to tell me what to do on Chinese soil,” rough translation.

My counter to the ass who sat down in my saved seat – while his wife(?) and child (?) were standing around eating – not sure if they were his family but they all left together at the end when I refused to back down; it was weird, he ordered them to leave – was the following:

1) Many people in China reserve and wait on line for hours for a table,

2) Most Chinese people I know and associate with are well mannered unlike him,

3) I was being reasonable because I already told him that he could stay until my friend showed up,

4) You are rude in any culture and country no matter in America or China, and

5) If you dare hit me, I will hit you back.

Basically after this conversation, I realized that I have way too much personality for a native Chinese person and that if nothing else, that should distinguish me from a local – whether good or bad that remains to be seen.  However, I refuse to be smacked, slapped, or hit in any way from any guy, so there certainly was no way it was going to happen in China from a rude seat stealing guy while I was conscious.