Alex

So. I met this Australian guy on a classmates house warming party last week, and he told me a story. A story about how wrong things can go sometimes, when you don't really have a firm grasp of the cultural differences in a new country.

A friends of his, and the friends girlfriend, had come to China and was planning to stay here for quite a while, hence they decided to get a dog. So they went down to the market, where they had all these cute dogs in cages. They were standing there for a couple of minutes, trying to decide which one they wanted, and finally picked the absolutely cutest one they could find. "This one!", they said and pointed at it. "We want this one!"

So the owner picked up the dog and took it away. The two foreigners figured that, hey, maybe he'll just put a collar on it or something. And then, the owner came back and handed them a bag of meat. (And the audience goes "Noooo!" and "Awwww!" and we all feel a bit bad about it.)

Only in China baby.

However, I met this Chinese guy when I went down to my old hostel in Wuhan a couple of days ago. We were talking a bit, his English was much much better than my Chinese, so conversation went pretty smooth. And I told him this story, about how they went to the market to buy a pet, and picked the cutest little doggie they found, and then was handed this bag of meat.

He went quiet, and then looked at me, and, completely confused asked me: "But.... why did they pick the cutest one? That doesn't matter for the taste."

What do you reply to that?



Alex

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