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The times they are a changin’

While running yesterday in Monrovia, I received nearly as many “Chinaman! Chinaman!” and “Nihau! Nihau!” as “Whiteman! Whiteman!”. My colleague Rob received a less coveted “Chingchong!”

4 Responses

  1. How funny! I am Chinese, but when I was in Tunis a couple weeks ago, I got “Eskimo”!

  2. when out for my evening cycle in Dar es Salaam this week, I was not surprised by children calling out “MCHINA!”, But “KOREA!” took me by surprise.

  3. Indeed. In a small town in Egypt, where most of the foreigners are Chinese, my wife (who doesn’t look in the least bit Chinese) has been asked if she’s Chinese.

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