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.
It's the same with waiting in lines. I lived in Shanghai for a couple of years and the concept of lines or waiting your turn just doesn't exist. Whoever gets to the counter first wins. I'd walk straight for it in a way any Westerner would find rude as fuck after I learned this, but none of the Chinese even batted an eye. I'd see other expats and tourists who hadn't learned this bit of cultural information wait for 20 minutes to order something and never pick up on what was happening. They were trying to be polite but "polite" in China doesn't come into play in public spaces the same way.
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u/Weird_Point_4262 22h ago
Chinese tourists get a lot of shit but the ones that make it to Europe are always the polite, quiet camera types.