Hokkaido offends Chinese with good honest advice

[Samurai_Jerk]

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Hokkaido rewrites ‘condescending’ etiquette guide targeted at Chinese tourists

SAPPORO – The Hokkaido Tourism Organization has revised a booklet on bad manners aimed at Chinese tourists after a local resident said it assumed Chinese lack common sense.

The new guide covers subjects ranging from shopping and hotel etiquette to how to use a toilet. It cautions against being late, breaking wind in public and stealing cutlery from restaurants.

An official at the Sapporo-based semi-public tourism promotion body said it came up with the idea of a do’s and don’ts guide last year after hoteliers expressed reluctance to host tourists from China. There have been cases in which Chinese tourists left hotel rooms dirty or made excessive noise.

As elsewhere in Japan recently, the number of tourists from China has surged in Hokkaido. Figures released by the prefecture show there were 218,600 travelers from China in the period from April to September last year, or nearly a quarter of all foreign travelers during the six months. They were the second-largest group by nationality after those from Taiwan, who numbered 260,500.

The official said the organization hopes the booklet would serve to resolve issues for innkeepers as well as making a stay in Hokkaido an enjoyable experience for Chinese tourists. It published the illustrated booklet in August.

But the booklet was titled “Hokkaido Ryoko Joshiki” (“Common Sense When Traveling Hokkaido”), with illustrations showing example after example of bad tourist behavior lined with big “X” marks.

A Chinese resident in Hokkaido saw it and complained, saying it gives a false impression to readers that all Chinese lack common sense and manners.

The tourism organization acknowledged that “its contents were one-sided,” and decided to revise it.

[kurogane]

A Chinese resident in Hokkaido saw it and complained, saying it gives a false impression to readers that all Chinese lack common sense and manners.

What a horrible people they are. Not even the ones that have climbed out of the ditch can see out of it yet.

Good to hear the hotels were reluctant to host them. We need more backbone like this.

China for Chinese, please stay there, please.

[matsuki]

A Chinese resident in Hokkaido saw it and complained, saying it gives a false impression to readers that all Chinese lack common sense and manners.

What a horrible people they are. Not even the ones that have climbed out of the ditch can see out of it yet.

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The Chinese I know both here and in the states are just the opposite...they feel like they've made it and hold back nothing when putting down the "peasants, farmers and factory workers" from the old country. (even if they don't realize they're constantly doing some of the same stereotypical things ZA...Chai-knee are known for) Still, when you're constantly getting grouped in and talked down to "because Chineeeese!" by the locals, I can see why a resident would take it personally complain.

Good to hear the hotels were reluctant to host them. We need more backbone like this.

China for Chinese, please stay there, please.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I like Chinese. They make Australians appear comparatively civilized (for a little while, at least)

[Russell]

I like Chinese. They make Australians appear comparatively civilized (for a little while, at least)

In that case, you might like Russians even more...

[kurogane]

The Chinese I know both here and in the states are just the opposite...they feel like they've made it and hold back nothing when putting down the "peasants, farmers and factory workers" from the old country. .........

In Vancouver that is mostly an ethnic issue: I don't know how it stands now but most old school Chinese are from Hong Kong or Canton and then later Taiwan, whereas most FOBs are mainlanders, and even Shangai and Peking types. I can dig a resident in Hokkaido might find it tiresome to be faced with pamphlets like that, but to actually complain about something so obviously necessary shows what whiney mutts they are at heart and why Japan should try to limit the infestation. Don't forget, it's not the abstract injustice of all such discrimination that galls, it's that somewhere somebody had the audacity and presumption to question the superiority of Being Chinese. Sound familiar?