Staring
All time favourite habit of Chinese people, if you can visit their beautiful country then they can stare at you... First scene, a woman stared so hard in Shanghai, the got knocked down, another scene, a group of people shouting mei guo ren ( they assume black people can only come from the states... Thank you Obama). Another scene, people shouting Serena Williams .. I got excited thinking she was somewhere close, only to realise they were talking to me...(KMT) if you know me you would that calling me Serena Williams would make me very sad, i would rather be called Venus Williams.
All time favourite habit of Chinese people, if you can visit their beautiful country then they can stare at you... First scene, a woman stared so hard in Shanghai, the got knocked down, another scene, a group of people shouting mei guo ren ( they assume black people can only come from the states... Thank you Obama). Another scene, people shouting Serena Williams .. I got excited thinking she was somewhere close, only to realise they were talking to me...(KMT) if you know me you would that calling me Serena Williams would make me very sad, i would rather be called Venus Williams.
They might even go as far as taking pictures with you, once a woman handed me her infant child so that she could take a picture of a foreigner (Wei guo ren) holding her baby. Another scene, a little boy crying because his cousins had taken a picture with my and my friends when he went to use the toilet, so we had to take another picture with him. Another scene, me and my friends running away after standing and taking pictures for 10 minutes with random people in tian'an men square Beijing. I really don't mind the attention because it makes me feel like a celebrity but when you stand for more than 20 minutes in the blazing sun taking pictures with strangers or waiting for your friends to finish taking pictures with strangers, it can get tiring and annoying to a point that the darker side of me pops up, or like me and some friends did, start running until the coast is clear. However the level of staring depends on the city you visit. Economic zones like shanghai and Shenzhen have mild staring, because there are loads of foreigners doing business, so you are nothing special, but other areas like suzhou, cheng du, tian jin, chongching can get really bad, they laugh at you openly, might touch your hair, point at you too often. 
They don't mean any harm, they are just excited to see foreigners and want to study us to see if we behave like them or imitate our strange behaviours.
So most times I wear my sunglasses, turn my iPod on the loudest and cover my face with my iPad! This certainly works for me.
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