at present i live in addis ababa,ethiopia. and when i am walking in the street some street boys say alibaba to me . it is a arbic word, means stealing . it just confuses me, i am a stranger and foreigner to them. why do they do that ? it really hurts my feeling,.what i do is just walking away or ignoring them . any guys do the same thing to you in street in Kunming?
It's probably because you have a resemblance with Jack Ma.
What does Ethiopia have to do with Kunming?
ancient cuisine
@ yankeeoo, haha, actually i am more handsome than Jack Ma. i do not want a resemblance with him in look
@ HFCAMPO, a kunmingese who is a user of gokunming lives in ethiopia. that is it
@Luis Figo: I don't think too many here on GoK can help you understand Ethiopia. But, now you can know how many 老外 experience China.
Thats because most people in Africa do business with Chinese and they know about the Chinese website - No reference to Alibaba and the 40 thieves, they are referring to the website.
yes, sometimes they only mean the webiste, but sometimes, in Chinese lyrics and stories, Alibaba means exotic young man with wisdom and smart. So do not feel offensed. I think they just want to talk to you.
deciphering the babblings of ethiopian teens. getting desperate for topics.
