![]() ![]() Cold Pursuit: The main character's Asian sister-in-law levels a perpetual Death Glare at him when he visits his brother.Lois from Bad Santa snaps at everyone and never stops scowling.Can be seen in an Asian Store-Owner and can overlap with Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy, or (in Japanese media) Bokukko or even The Idiot from Osaka.Ĭommon Western equivalents include the French Jerk and the "Ugly American" Stereotype, the American tourist (often in a Hawaiian shirt), businessperson, or bureaucrat who exhibits all the worst traits of the boorish variant of Eagleland when traveling abroad.Ĭontrast Japanese Politeness (although Japanese people are not always portrayed as polite) and Inscrutable Oriental (where the Asian is more of a pompous know-it-all). It might even cause Stop Being Stereotypical. This trope is often Played for Laughs (with cultural posturing all too often a part of such humor), but can also be Played for Drama, especially among children of Asian immigrants growing up among these clashing cultures. Differing cultural notions of what is rude and what isn't don't help, either Chinese Etiquette can be as foreign as the language, and may even make one come off as an Etiquette Nazi. Some of this perceived "rudeness" comes from a linguistic Cross-Cultural Kerfluffle-speakers of Chinese and many Southeast Asian languages often find it natural to speak with a kind of pitch and tone contour that can come across as a bit strident or hectoring to speakers of non-tonal languages. ![]() Although this is very much averted historically with both the Chinese and Koreans viewing the Japanese as rude and backwards, and the Japanese has been often portrayed as the Proud Warrior Race Guys even in modern stories thanks to Cyberpunk. Japan is the major exception their people are known for strict adherence to etiquette, respect, and politeness in all situations. The concept of course does not apply only to the Chinese-but given that China is the dominant regional culture (largely a result of it being the most populous country in the world), the rest of Eastern Asia has subsequently been associated with such rudeness. This was further exacerbated by the Communist Cultural Revolution, which denounced these rules as relics of feudalism, and this trope was born as a result. The results were an overthrow of the monarchy, an attempt at simplifying the Chinese writing system, and the abandonment of many Chinese cultural elements such as highly formalized speech, traditional Chinese clothing, Chinese superstitions, and coming-of-age ceremonies. However, as China was being torn apart by Western powers and Japan during the New Culture Movement, there was a dedicated effort to "modernize" the country. Traditional Chinese etiquette was born out of centuries-old Chinese religious practices and Confucian doctrine, which are notoriously multi-tiered systems. During the Imperial Era, China was referred to as the "land of ceremony and etiquette"-concepts which were exported to (and can still be found to some extent in) neighboring countries like Mongolia, Korea and Japan, although these are generally not as rigorously applied there as they were in China. This is in fact a relatively recent development (see also Hordes from the East, in which Mongols were seen as this by the Westerners). They talk loudly and sharply, come across as bossy and arrogant and impatient and aggressive, cut into or try to bypass queues, or even vandalize historical artifacts. In Western Countries, stereotypical "Chinese Tourists" have a reputation for extreme rudeness.
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