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That spitting on the floor habit is so disgusting.

I don't like it either.
Especially seems disgusting among people from cultures where it is considered disgusting.

I liken spitting to 'farting' indiscriminately.

I find spitting much worse, farting is harmless and although often gross, it is a natural body function you sometimes cannot control.

But it must be difficult, as a Chinese, or in any culture, to always know how to act in other countries. People should do their own research first.

Like a foreigner in India, many wouldn't think twice about using their left hand to eat. But Indians may find this very inappropriate and dirty.

Nice article. 40min for say the Louvre? Ugh. First time I have ever heard a French person complain about someone not able to speak English. The vulgar American in Paris is now just a fond memory.

The spitting isn't limited to floors. Seen Chinese spit on some nice carpeting too, not their own of course.

Farting and spitting are different in that respect also. They will fart inside their own house, but not spit on their own floors.

Group tourism strikes me as only slightly more educational than the average tv show, and usually a good bit less than a BBC documentary (or - my God! - a whole book!) Just another consumer item, promoted by the consciously or unconsciously cynical for profit.

This is what happens when a country opens its doors to immigration and sells its soul for Chinese/ Arab/ American money.

When I was in Paris the expensive shops were packed with Chinese, they come en mass and they spend their money. They are profitable to have in the country. When compared to the Europeans who come to Kunming, refuse to wash, stay in a 10 a room hostel and eat 5rmb noodles for breakfast lunch and tea then 'splash out' on a fridge magnet to take home with them. There is no comparison.

They travel in groups because they don't mind the flock mentality, because they can't spit a lick of any foreign language and because visas come easier for those in tour groups. They view the sights, take 100,000 pictures of the same mundane things with their top of the range cameras and raid the gift shops afterwards. This is what tourist boards across the world want, regardless of the destruction they leave in their wake. Money above all else.

Add them in the 'avoid' group along with the culture-less yankees roaming the world 'doing Europe', 'Finding their roots in Ireland/Africa' etc, take their money, laugh at their simple ways and run before spending the money on something that your country couldn't afford without them.

Europe opened it's doors to everyone in the hope of a bit of spare change, spitting on the floor isn't even going to get on the radar when there are people arming themselves with trucks and beheading priests.

Not sure why they're moaning about spitting. My impression of some Europeans (Brits) is they enjoy a good spit (or gobbing as they refer to it) all be it once outside. They do it there by spraying it between their teeth in a strange way I have yet to replicate. It must require a British set of ugly choppers to master or something.

I don't think France has sold its soul for Chinese money, and whether it has opened its doors to immigration or not has nothing to do with Chinese tour groups, which are not groups of immigrants. Seems spitting on the floor by mainland Chinese tourists is already on the radar, however.

I doubt if many Chinese have immigrated to Paris, or that those who have are the ones spitting on the floor.
I have a friend who is a Chinese tourguide and has taken groups to Paris, who affirms that there is very little interest in French culture among them and that little if any is provided by the tourguides. The main thing seems to be shopping.

If you think many Chinese have not emigrated to Paris then you have no idea, which I could have guessed before you inserted yourself up your own arse in your last post.

Was not the point of the article that particular suburb becoming 'Chinese'?

The shop assistants in the shopping arcades are Chinese, there are tax shops for luxury purchases owned and ran by Chinese, if you want a tacky Eiffel tower souvenir you'll buy one from a Chinese owned shop. Chinese students are common in the universities, France has an estimated 800,000 Chinese emigrants, the most in Europe and the 5th highest outside of Asia.

It's energy sector is mostly Chinese owned as are many other famous hotels, power plants, football teams even part of the St Tropez beach. France came cap in hand to China a long time ago.

If there are 800,000 MAINLAND Chinese emigrants to France then I am surprised, but maybe you're right.

What do Chinese own in the energy sector that has to do with Chinese tourists?