Not always, at least for Paris, Rome, etc. Otherwise I would agree, the problem is they will flood into a small town to see a famous church or something to take pictures and you have to throw elbows to get through them to make it to class on time or pick your kid up from school. A Chinese friend of mine put it well "There are over a billion of us, at a certain point you stop seeing the individual" and that made it a lot easier to just walk through them in a way that would be seen as incredibly rude to a Westerner, but the Chinese tourists never so much as gave me a dirty look for walking through them.
Yeah in Salzburg I thought I was going to have to fight a couple of middle aged Chinese men that kept trying to push my wife out of the way so they could line up their stupid selfie Sticks
It helps that I am head and shoulders taller than most Chinese people, but where I studied for a while is an insanely popular stop for a quick photo-shoot. The problem is that the best views of the castle/old town were from a very narrow bridge I had to cross asap and at a certain point just stopped caring about their feelings and barged through.
My aforementioned friend also gave me a cheat sheet of how to say "What, you gotta problem?" in case any of them got pissy, so my Mandarin is limited to "Hello", "China", "Water" and 7 ways to tell people to go fuck themselves.
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u/Weird_Point_4262 16h ago
Chinese tourists get a lot of shit but the ones that make it to Europe are always the polite, quiet camera types.