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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
Despite being white as a bloody vampire, I only occasionally have people point me out as a foreigner. I remember when it first happened and I thought I was being amiable when I looked around surprised said "where?!" until I recalled that sarcasm is a bit of a lost cause in Chinese.
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Actually, I like to refer to myself as the "Western Devil / 洋鬼子" (the mandarin version of the insult for foreigners which is virtually only used when a person is extremely upset at a particular foreigner, not as a general slur) when talking in Chinese and always get a good laugh from everybody. Now even my wife calls me that quite often when we are with friends.