Me, Hanna, Xiaying and Henry have arrived in Beijing! As I am the only one who havn’t been to China you guys will hear a lot about my impressions here.
So, to continue on this culture differences theme, I’ll start with what first happened when we got of our airplane. We headed for the taxi station and Xiaying went to ask the price.
450 yuan, the taxi man said smirking.
Hanna and Xiaying shook their heads and said something like “typical, tyring to trick us, this should cost 100″.
I was of course taken a back, and wondered what we were going to do, as tricking people is highly agressive behavior in Sweden. But Hanna and Xiaying just laughed and told me that this was just normal chinese culture. And I should have known, as price dealing is common in many countries. But as always, I’m stupified when something isn’t as it is at home.
So that was my first cultural clash, and from now on I will celebrate the chinese culture by price fighting as much as I can!
Elina
