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Originally Posted by takoyakiballs  I am new in HK, just moved here for a new job. I have been working overseas (within asia) for more than 10 years in a professional field. I believe I have reached certain level of paranoia from being treated differently, in varying degree, in a country not my own. Two of my recent experience are, one in pacific place, when I was sitting with my legs crisscorssed on one of the benches in the lobby, with my earphone, listening to mp3. I barely noticed that a guard was yelling at me telling me to move my legs down. I followed in an impulse and discreetly. While the guard was proceeding his way he passed by these 3 big caucasian guys (back packers, i supposed) who were actually sitting on the floor and he just went pretending that he didnt notice them. Another experience is in my workplace itself. I have to ask an IT staff to fix some problem with my desktop, a local HK guy came to my desk to fix the problem. As he was doing it he was murmuring telling me that "I belong to the race who works as domestic helpers in HK and I should not be asking much from him"..he was smiling though while saying this... |
easy solutions here.....
was the security guard a slightly older man? if so then he would have found it easier to pick on you than 3 ...um, "big" caucasian guys. If so, call him over and yell into his ear "DO YOUR JOB, YOU WUSS!". I'm sure he won't bother you after that.
as for the IT guy, were you wearing heels? then right after he said what he said, you should have jabbed one of them deep into his foot, and "pretended" to apologize..., after all, that's not asking for 'much' now, is it?
Come on woman,...keep your chin up. This sort of stuff happens everyday in many other places. No reason for it to get you down...
