In Australia, more and more Chinese go to work, live, buy home and study in the Southern Hemisphere. More and more Chinese people live overseas, or rent a house, or live habits or domestic "old-fashioned", life is very nourishing! But the Chinese are not popular overseas! Especially in a resident community, many Chinese are not a "good neighbor" who meets their standards in the eyes of foreigners.
Recently, foreign media took stock of the strange things of China's neighbors, but in our view, it may be a routine.
Like to rebuild, not to clean up the yard.
In many communities in Australia, you'll find that many Australians like to regularly clean up their little yards in front of their homes, with flat turf and perfect gardens and plants. Let all walk on the community path can feel clean and tidy atmosphere, mood also become comfortable.
Even many communities hold "gardening competitions" on a regular basis to evaluate whose yard is better placed to add luster to the local community. However, many Chinese people do not like to clean up their own courtyard and the grass at the door, feel that it is time-consuming and cost-consuming!
The newly bought houses, and even many Chinese buyers, have renovated their spacious building areas, not only without building their own turf, but also by "large-scale" construction, leaving many local neighbors at a loss.
Many architectural improvements do not take into account the "atmosphere" of the community as a whole, and unique architectural ideas create discontent among many local neighbors.
There are even many Chinese buyers of tuhao who have directly purchased landmarks in the local community, and then carried out large-scale renovation and renovation. In our view, it is right to meet their own housing needs, but in the eyes of many local residents, Large-scale renovations mean the destruction of old houses and damage to the classic landmarks! There has also been a lot of controversy.
Chinese cook smells great!
In China, when walking after dinner, you can tell what delicious food your neighbor is doing by the smell.
This also stems from our Chinese food "unique" dining "philosophy", Chinese people often like hot oil and hot pot cooking, scallion, ginger and garlic pot, so that the flavor of ingredients is "forced out" by the fire!
However, we feel that no matter how sincere things, the aroma of food, to the nose of foreigners, perhaps not so fragrant!
Many Australians cook, like less oil and smoke, cooking at home, there is little smell outside the house.
And after a meal, a community may only Chinese people in the house will emit the smell of "rice fragrance is not afraid of the deep alley" smell, a whole street can smell!
If it happens to be a salted fish, the classic ingredients of stinky tofu, the "effect" would be even better!
Dry clothes and ingredients!
Last year, the news that Chinese restaurants incur fines for cooling bacon in the backyard and drying salted bacon in many parts of the country in the south of the country scared Australians out of the blue. Last year, the news broke out because of fines incurred by Chinese restaurants in the backyard.
A bunch of bacon made the headlines in Australia!
If foreign journalists go to China to see this kind of scene, they may be able to contract the headlines for a year.
In many parts of Australia, clothes and quilts are not allowed to be dried out. At that time, the editor first came to Australia, drying quilts on his balcony, was gracefully stopped by the old neighbor.
In fact, the clothesline ban is not a federal goverment or state goverment ban, but a ban on outdoor drying of clothes issued by various units.
The official terms say this:
the Strata Schemes Management Act 1996
10 Drying of Laundry Items
An owner or occupier of a lot must not, except with the consent in writing of the owners corporation, hang any washing, towel, bedding, clothing or other article on any part of the parcel in such a way as to be visible from outside the building other than on any lines provided by the owners corporation for the purpose and there only for a reasonable period.
Even those who live in independent homes, own their own yards, have no community jurisdiction, and therefore have no explicit prohibitions, do not have the habit of drying clothes outdoors. Why most residents who enjoy the right to air clothes do not hang clothes outdoors, one because of habit, second is the concept, third is public opinion.
According to the survey, some westerners see outdoor drying as a feature of poverty-stricken areas, or low-income areas. As a result, some people fear that hanging clothes by neighbors will pull down the house prices of the people around them.
Others say neighbors hang clothes outdoors, hoping to see green tree birds out of their windows, not other people's underpants. So people use the dryer, not the neighborhood scenery.
Someone was killed for hanging clothes.
Steven Lake, a British film worker, said: "the clothesline looks like an incredibly common thing, but it has a lot to do with personal rights, private property, class, aesthetics and environmental issues."
Lake made a documentary called hanging Free a few years ago on the subject of controversy in the West about clotheslines. The documentary starts with a real case in which a Mississippi man shot a neighbor because, after many "warnings," he insisted on hanging clothes outdoors.
It seems that we should be careful to dry clothes, otherwise it is easy to be involved in the murder!
Chinese people like to dry their clothes outdoors.
The Chinese people just like to dry their clothes, and they think that the smell of the sun on clean clothes will smell good, and it is also a Chinese habit to dry clothes. This kind of habit seems to be unique to China. If the weather is good, if you do not have a quilt, You'll think it's a waste of sunshine.
You might say, that's not necessarily, maybe people in other countries like to hang their clothes out of the window. Oh, this thing can not be wrong, there are friends to verify many times. Heard a joke, there is a Chinese can not find the way, looking up at the clothes of the second floor of the window cried, anyone? A Chinese face immediately popped out of the window and asked, what do you yell for, can I help you?
There are also reasons why foreign netizens are talking about it:
1, the Chinese people do not like to take on the work of community volunteers, do not like to repay the community, serve the public!
2, love to show off wealth, attracted the attention of a large number of illegal elements, endangering the safety of the community. (this one is also drunk)
3, do not like to participate in community organized collective activities, "dinner" and "sports" and so on.
Many netizens are also lamenting that living in a foreign country should abide by the local habits and rules of life, these behaviors can be improved! But also some netizens think that foreigners are too "glass heart", the size of sesame seeds are still so concerned, simply crazy!
What do you think of the reasons why these foreigners "don't like" Chinese neighbors?