'Why does he keep speaking English to me?' Chinese woman scolds AirAsia crew for not speaking Mandarin

Don't get me wrong, this woman is a Karen and actually quite typical of the mainland China entitlement and behavior. BUT there's a massive amount of mandarin speaking people in Malaysia to the point where it's a destination for mainland Chinese. Not excusing her ridiculous behavior but providing context here.

Wouldn't hating someone from another village just be like generic Xenophobia? I can't imagine two villagers from the same Asian country but two different villages are genetically distinct enough to count as different "races". Or are we just using "racist" to mean "bigoted"

I play EVE Online which has a decently sized Chinese playerbase and my god those racist fucks would give racists in the west a run for their money. See it daily of "small brained whites" or "The whites are here" or "white pig" or "sleepy whites".

But as soon as you joke and say "man it looks like the Tianamen Square Massacre of 1989 in here" in local chat they all collectively freak out on you.

I've witness people being racist because someone is from another village

We have this in Germany too. Traditionally, the area where I live hates the area where I was born. These two places are maybe an hour apart and in the same state. All because they were governed by different nobles ages ago who had different ideas about Christianity. Tbh though it was much more of a thing in my parents’ generation.

That's not racism, that's just being an asshole.

I mean, people in a town I lived in were upset because kids from the next town over were using the public swimming pool. This was in northern Virginia, so not liking people from another village anywhere in the world hardly seems strange.

seems like classist/elitist, than racism.

Not all prejudice is racism, as that refers to an ideology pushing a hierarchy based on the misconception that race is white black asian etc.. What you are talking about isn't even ethnocentric since the ethnicity is the same. We have other more accurate terms for regional parochial xenophobia, but plain "prejudice" is not wrong.

Si, me tienen las pelotas re contra llenas

Havent seem the video, but in dpanair they do speak spainidh and i do not accept they cant.

It’s delightful to see this phenomenon happening in another country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dama

Really? I see it every time. Bad thing happens in US: "Of course it did. Where else could it?" Bad thing happens outside of US: "Wow. [Other Place] really acting like the US here." Apparently racism, violence, and most other human sins only exist in the US to some people. It's weird.

Lots of countries have their own exceptionalism going on. Especially in the demographics that can afford to travel.

Yes, but, that's not what happened here. It was an international flight, and there were employees who spoke Chinese, and did so to try to calm her down. She was mad at one employee for not speaking Chinese.

This makes me wonder: what is the Mandarin-language equivalent of the American "Karen?"

Is this Henry Paker's account?

Rise of the Mandarolians

New world order on its way. I wonder how long it will take Western countries to start offering Mandarin in school.

Edit to add: To clarify: I don't mean offered as an optional language but as mandatory, the way English is right now in, for example, Switzerland.