The Chinese use hospitality as a weapon to puzzle their potential competitors. They might smile as sweetly as a flower in full blossom, only to disguise their true intention of observing you. If your background is lower than their expectation, they would put on air immediately; moreover, they would even trample you down the social ladder, if you turn out to be useless to them. In Uganda, a black girl, who helped our chef in the kitchen, begged me not to "change". She complained that all the Chinese were friendly to her in the beginning when they just came to Uganda; however, later, she said, they would treat her as a real slave without any real communication, only dropping orders like "do this, do that".
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