- The women wear flesh-coloured pop socks whatever the weather, especially with sandals or slippers.
- The men wear smart leather shoes and suit trousers with a (usually tucked-in) tshirt
- Both men and women ALWAYS drag a rolly case along behind them in which to store all their purchases from Mannings / Watsons. I saw someone in Mannings this morning buying $5,000 worth of baby formula.
- Around Times Square, you can usually see a number of Chinese tourists sleeping. The preferred "bed" is the afore-mentioned rolly bag. Yesterday there was a family of three asleep outside Salvatore Ferragamo. You can see pics of Chinese Sleeping here. It's just more socially acceptable.
Just to try and even things up, maybe I can offer a couple of stereotypes about Ying Gwok Yan (English people)
- We always wear shorts, flip flops (thongs / slippers, depending on whether you are Aussie or Flippa) and vest tops, whatever the weather.
- We tut loudly at all the people who are inconsiderately in our way on OUR pavement (I have largely stopped doing this since pushing a stroller around the city - life's a lot easier at the median pace of whatever pavement you are on)
- We're all obsessed with football
Any more to add?
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