Chinese store bans its own citizens’ entry to please foreign customers
27 Nov 2014 12:23 AM GMT
‘We don't want to hang up the sign in the first place and let people think we Chinese look down upon ourselves. But some Chinese customers are too annoying,’ a salesperson told the paper, adding that the wholesale store mainly sells products to foreigners.
The store had to pay a foreign customer $5,000 last week to settle a theft scandal, the salesperson said.
‘The surveillance camera footage showed a Chinese customer stole his wallet. But the foreign customer insisted that we [the shop and the Chinese customer] are a theft group,’ the salesperson said.
‘And Chinese women often try lots of clothes but end up buying nothing’, the salesperson said, Hong Kong based South China Morning Post reported.
The sign is also to prevent other competitors from copying their designs, another salesperson said.
Most of the businesses along the road, located in the embassy district, cater to Russian traders.
The board evoked anger among Chinese microbloggers. The report, carried by many influential mainland media outlets, including state media, became one of the most discussed topics this morning, having amassed more than million reads and thousands of comments.
‘Get out of China, please,’ many of the comments read, the Post report said.
Legal scholar Li Xiandong, of the China University of Political Science and Law, told the Beijing Youth Daily that while the sign is discriminatory, China has not outlawed racial discrimination and, therefore, putting up such a sign is not illegal.
The store had to pay a foreign customer $5,000 last week to settle a theft scandal, the salesperson said.
‘The surveillance camera footage showed a Chinese customer stole his wallet. But the foreign customer insisted that we [the shop and the Chinese customer] are a theft group,’ the salesperson said.
‘And Chinese women often try lots of clothes but end up buying nothing’, the salesperson said, Hong Kong based South China Morning Post reported.
The sign is also to prevent other competitors from copying their designs, another salesperson said.
Most of the businesses along the road, located in the embassy district, cater to Russian traders.
The board evoked anger among Chinese microbloggers. The report, carried by many influential mainland media outlets, including state media, became one of the most discussed topics this morning, having amassed more than million reads and thousands of comments.
‘Get out of China, please,’ many of the comments read, the Post report said.
Legal scholar Li Xiandong, of the China University of Political Science and Law, told the Beijing Youth Daily that while the sign is discriminatory, China has not outlawed racial discrimination and, therefore, putting up such a sign is not illegal.
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