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[quote=Anonymous]Chinese here. When I am in Asia, I am treated differently. The air hostess will say thank you and good-bye to the passengers in Mandarin, but say it in English to me. A cab driver thought I was Singaporean because of my accent. Another thought I was a great target to fleece because I wasn't a local. In Chinatown here in the US, I can hear the shop ladies call me an ABC. I actually think it is abjectly sad to be treated as 'other' by people of one's own background. Americans are generally polite about it and what's hilarious is that going out of one's way to demonstrate cultural sensitivity is considered a micro-agression (as in OP's first example of the of the mis-directed 'xie-xie'). In Asia, it is very direct, there is no polite veneer to any of it. OP should teach her child to respond to any 'Xie-Xie' with "Bitte schon, mein Herr". [/quote]
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