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Swiss rail firm launches separate trains for Chinese tourists after complaints from locals
UK Daily Mail ^ | 08/30/2015 | CHRIS KITCHING

Posted on 08/30/2015 9:52:23 AM PDT by DFG

Chinese tourists are being given separate train services to travel to the top of a picturesque Swiss mountain after they were accused of poor behaviour. Locals and other visitors to Mount Rigi have complained to the railway operator, accusing Asian tourists of crowding train corridors to snap photos and even spitting inside the carriages. Tensions between tourists from Asia and visitors from Switzerland have worsened as the mountain, near Lucerne, has become a massive draw for Chinese holidaymakers, a newspaper claimed.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinese; lucerne; swiss; switzerland

1 posted on 08/30/2015 9:52:23 AM PDT by DFG
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I’ve lived in close proximity to many Chinese people for the last 25 years and have never once seen one of them spit. This includes several hundred children.


2 posted on 08/30/2015 9:54:13 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Were the people you know fresh from China? It takes a while for some people to acculturate to a different society.


3 posted on 08/30/2015 9:56:20 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: DFG

I used to live near there. Funny that of all the peaks in Switzerland the Chinese love the little Rigi. Anyway, Japanese tourists have always loved to visit Switzerland, and they treated the Swiss wonderfully and vice versa. Both cultures have a deep reverence for public politeness, if not an entirely “false” or prepared public persona (seems false to us Americans).

Now come the Chinese who apparently have none of that etiquette. Pretty disgusting spitting on floors. Read the comments under the article.


4 posted on 08/30/2015 10:03:31 AM PDT by Yaelle (The election isn't the main thing. Stopping the 2 party oligarchy and their media IS.)
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To: Steely Tom
Yeah, I've worked with a lot of Chinese and have never seen anything like what this article describes. Of course, most of the Chinese I have known were in the IT profession. I wouldn't think uncouth peasants would have the means to vacation in Switzerland though.

Spitting on the floor? Chinese?

5 posted on 08/30/2015 10:04:06 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Steely Tom

The Chinese are ‘the holidaymakers’, as they say, but the rest of the tourists maybe from some of the different oriental lands, and since they are not European, do not have the same more’s as the Swiss.


6 posted on 08/30/2015 10:06:41 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: PapaBear3625

This is a very common complaint about tourists from Mainland China,.....not the Chinese from Taiwan who are civilized. It is true here in Hawaii also. Until now either they were not allowed to have passports or they did not have the money to go abroad, but now they are coming in hordes. They show no respect for other people, leave trash, spit on the floor, jump to the head of the line, etc. Apparently this is normal behavior in China. The South Koreans, Japanese and Taiwanese who come here to Hawaii are welcomed because they are civilized.


7 posted on 08/30/2015 10:06:54 AM PDT by Islander2 (Some of us are here because we are not all there.)
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To: Steely Tom
I’ve lived in close proximity to many Chinese people for the last 25 years and have never once seen one of them spit. This includes several hundred children.

I don't doubt that what you are saying is accurate to your experience, but if you happen to visit a casino in Atlantic City or anywhere to which buses from NY's Chinatown run, you will see this quite often unfortunately. Spitting on the floor indoors as if they were out on the street. Not all - mind you - but enough to give you a different perspective.

8 posted on 08/30/2015 10:07:12 AM PDT by American Infidel (Instead of vilifying success, try to emulate it)
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To: DFG

I strongly suspect that the variety of “Asian” they are referring to are in actuality islamic. Notice the “toilet etiquette” sign - that’s identical to what you see in countries that are being overrun with muzzies.


9 posted on 08/30/2015 10:07:14 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: DFG

Sounds like the Wine country train rides should practice this tradition with another demographic in California.


10 posted on 08/30/2015 10:07:14 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: DFG

I rode a bus through san fran’s chinatown once. There was a small boy who was eating rotted fish on a stick that nearly made me puke, but apart from the overcrowding, I didn’t see anybody do anything else. Certainly no spitting.


11 posted on 08/30/2015 10:11:52 AM PDT by LouAvul (Liberalism, the bane of civilization.)
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To: DFG
Hey, why don't they cherish the diversity™? Multi-culti tells us no cultural customs are bad.
12 posted on 08/30/2015 10:21:57 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Sounds like the Wine country train rides should practice this tradition...”

My thoughts exactly or they could simply ask travelers if they prefer a noisy car or a quiet car. The pocket in front of their seat in the noisy car they could contain a brochure about visiting wine country in a train including the fact that riders will need to use their quiet “inside voice” - although I swear some people haven’t a clue as to how much their voice carries.


13 posted on 08/30/2015 10:22:10 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: DFG

I operate light rail trains in the Salt Lake Valley and transport a good many Asian tourists; and while they do take lots of pictures and videos, they are extremely polite, well behaved individuals.


14 posted on 08/30/2015 10:26:09 AM PDT by Artcore
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To: LouAvul

the bus through China town in has a name the Dirty Thirty. There are many stories about the bus.


15 posted on 08/30/2015 10:26:19 AM PDT by sharpee
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To: Artcore

I’ve encountered tourists from Asian countries who were very pushy about getting photos, obsessed with it to the point of breaking lines and shoving people out of the way. It sort of went against the grain of what I knew about their being polite people in general. All bets are off when you’re on a mission to get mementos of a trip to Disneyworld, I guess. Didn’t see spitting, just pushy and rude.


16 posted on 08/30/2015 10:30:49 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Grams A

Even in restaurants, the larger the group, the louder, no matter the culture.

All it takes is one loud laugher to ruin it for the entire room.

Segregation on train cars by group size would be ideal. Two or more loud groups in one car have nothing to complain about. I think the train operator knows how to profile for this. If they mess up, comp the offended parties.


17 posted on 08/30/2015 10:37:41 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: DFG

their toilet practice leaves much too desire....they deserve each other....


18 posted on 08/30/2015 12:07:33 PM PDT by B212
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