China Blog by Chinaorbit.com

Recently, I received a phone call from a Chinese company, which wanted to sell ink for a printer. I have a laser printer and told the sales girl

- she could also sell me an inkjet printer, like this I could get their ink much cheaper than the normal market price

- – my laser printer is new and I do not need any ink or a new printer.

- an inkjet printer has lots of advantages

- – I really do not need anything

- she would like to talk to the boss of the IT-department

- – this is useless, If my company had an It-department, I would advise the boss of this department NOT to buy a printer

- some sounds I did not understand

- – I asked, if she could repeat the last sentence, i am a foreigner and this was too fast

- she did not believe me and said, I was from some province

- – no province, I am from Germany 德国 (Deguo)

- Germany is not a province – where is Germany

- – Western Europe

- no way, I must be from Guangzhou

- – how does she get this idea

- in Guangzhou, people aslo spoke in such a strange way

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normally, I am quite happy, if a Chinese takes me for a Chinese, but this time, I was not really happy about it.