Molson Hart

I wasn't a patriotic American until I went and lived in China. It also taught me a lot about racism. There were times that my mind, if I let it, would wrongly blame my problems on racism. There were also times were racism was the problem. https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1179770029887410176 …

One time I went to register at the local police station in a tier 3 city (foreigners must do this). My chinese was quite poor at the time (still kinda is, but is better now) and there were 4 cops smoking cigarettes playing majiang. The first thing I heard was "Laowai"

, which is a semi-impolite term in China for white foreigner. That set off a very interesting set of events requiring me to flee the country the next day. I learned a lot about life that day.

‘Laowai’ just means old foreigner. Doesn’t even contain the word ‘white’. It’s the same how Japanese call foreigners ‘Gaijin’. You’re not that special my friend.