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Originally Posted by nono1973
Imagine this,China Chinese wears lots of gold chain with diamonds round their neck and wrist,gold rings,rolex watches and step into Batam,hehehe...no need for me to say,its going to be quite some "fun" for them. And thats not counting the noise they made.
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In many cases, the common image that people living in South-East Asia has of Chinese PRC tourists is NOT the same image that is associated to the sophisticated Chinese upper class populating the most trendy areas of Shanghai...
There is a famous video, with PRC tourists assaulting shrimps on an "all you can eat" buffet at a hotel. I am sure you have seen it.
Last time I passed the causeway border between Malaysia and Singapore, there were not less than 2000 PRC tourists queued at immigration. I took one hour and half to pass!
"Queued" is not the word: those people was pushing, jumping across the lines and among the lines, trying to pass ahead of me just because there were 50 cm between me and the side barrier (apparently, the concept of "single line" is not known there), all this making terrible noise. Singaporean security was resigned, used to see all that chaos every day.
I did not see any gold chain or diamonds. They were low-cost travel tourists enjoying the opportunity to visit KL and Singapore.
Now imagine when low-cost travel operators will start to propose Batam in PRC...
I would not be concerned about people walking around with diamonds in Nagoya
