Are foreigners friendly?

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@comfy123

Many foreigners here act like they’re above everyone else. Walking down the street they often don’t say hi to one another, instead acting like they’re invisible to one another. No one bothers to say a simple “hello.”

There is a similar thread specifically about interactions with other foreigners. So may be here we focus on interaction with locals.

Foreigners Who Don't Acknowledge Other Foreigners on the Street

Perhaps some of you have noticed this or are perpetrators of it. It’s something I call “foreigner syndrome” in which, when a foreigner meets another foreigner, s/he will go to ANY length to avoid making eye contact, saying hello/ ni hao, or whatever. My friend says that yesterday she met one who got out of an adjacent line at a shop and went to the back just to avoid talking to him, and I believe it; so many of us are just snobs. You have to wonder how wrapped up these people are in their own…