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Chinese people don’t really like foreigners however polite they may be on the surface. The old view of “yang guizi!” (foreign devils!) remains in the psyche. You can’t do anything about this — just put up with it.
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© 2007 Harold Chee and Chris West
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Chee, H., West, C. (2007). The Chinese are irrationally xenophobic. In: Myths about doing business in China. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286771_7
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