剛才打開郵箱，看到Quora（相當于國外知乎）的一篇推薦，大概看了一眼，題目吸引了我：
Why do Chinese tourists in Thailand have such a bad reputation?（爲什麽中國遊客在泰國名聲這麽臭？）
我很困惑，泰國是中國人最愛去的旅遊地之一，曼谷、普吉島更是中國人泰國遊必去的打卡地。泰國人爲啥討厭中國遊客？又是亂扔垃圾不服從管理素質堪憂？
打開頁面看到點贊最多的一個回答，來自于Laura Quintanilla，全文如下：
I went to Bangkok 2 years ago and the hostel I booked has no elevator. My room was at the 3rd floor so I left my luggage inside the small storage room they had on the ground floor.
On my last day, I returned to the hostel at around 1 AM from the night market.
The rest of the lights were turned off with only one fluorescent lamp illuminating the reception area. It was dim and quite. No one was there.
Shit. I don't have the key to the storage room. I have to be at the airport in 4 hours.
I always see the receptionist sleep on the sofa the previous nights. Perhaps she just went to the washroom.
I sat and waited.
30 minutes have passed. No receptionist turned up. I was starting to get anxious.
I checked the reception desk and opened the drawers but I haven't found any key.
I was sweating furiously so I decided to go upstairs to take a quick shower (I had extra clothes in my backpack).
Afterwards, I sat on the bed feeling defeated and searched "how to open a doorknob using a hairpin" on YouTube when I suddenly heard murmurs at the stairs.
It could be the staff!
I quickly put my clothes on and ran downstairs.
But there was no staff.
The voices came from two Chinese guys trying to book a cab that would take them to the airport.
"Hello! Do you happen to know where the staff is? My luggage is inside the storage room and I don't have the key. I have an early flight…", I started babbling.
I received a blank stare.
"We don't speak English well", said the guy then he said something to his companion.
The other guy held his phone in front of my mouth. I was confused. I looked at the screen and realized that they have a translator app.
I began to repeat what I have just said. He clicked a button. A woman's voice from the app translated it in Chinese. We communicated like that all throughout.
They have a local sim card and they also have the owner's personal number!
They offered to call the owner. I spoke with him and he told me that the receptionist slept at the spare room in the 4th floor and he can call her.
A few minutes later, I had my luggage back.
"Xie xie! xie xie! xie xie!", I kept telling the Chinese guys. Aside from it's the only Chinese word I know apart from ni hao and wo ai ni, I really could not thank them enough for what they did for me.
They were heading to Phuket and were in a hurry because they woke up late. But they still chose to help me.
When I was in Hong Kong, I met two girls from Mainland China. They were very nice despite of the circumstances we were in at the time (another story).
I was also with Chinese tourists in a tour bus in Chiang Rai a few months ago and I sit with them in airplanes from time to time.
Some of them could be extremely loud but aside from that, I haven't personally experienced or witnessed any despicable behaviour from Chinese tourists. And I hope it stays that way. 😀
內容大致如下，
這位名爲Laura的姑娘前兩年去過泰國旅遊，住在曼谷一家旅社裏。這家旅社沒有電梯，而她的房間在三樓，所以她將行李放在一樓的行李間。曼谷之行的最後一天，她淩晨1點從夜市回到旅社，想去取回放在行李間的行李，四個小時後她還要趕飛機。而當時旅社一樓前台卻沒有人。她之前見過前台晚上會在沙發上睡覺，認爲前台可能去洗手間了，于是她就開始等。但是左等右等不見人，她開始著急了，時間越來越緊張。于是她嘗試用從YouTube上學到的小技巧來開鎖，但是無濟于事。姑娘急得渾身冒汗。
恰好此時看到兩個中國人下樓要打車走，于是她趕緊上前攔住找他們幫忙。由于語言不通，兩個中國男孩用翻譯軟件跟她交流後，幫她聯系到了前台。而這兩位中國遊客當時由于起晚了也著急走，卻仍然幫助了她。而她只能用僅會的中文“謝謝”來表達感激。
Laura還說她在香港和清萊也遇到過很多大陸遊客，都非常友好，她很喜歡，只是部分人比較吵鬧而已。她覺得中國遊客這樣就挺好的。
我們中國人現在其實對自己還很不自信，從很多地方都能看出來。盲目的自大和自卑，其實都是不自信的表現。而很多媒體不加分析爲了博眼球將中國遊客與外國人的矛盾放大後呈現到大衆面前，于是很多中國人開始罵自己的同胞出國了表現低俗丟人現眼，素質低下丟中國人的臉。其實每個國家都有各種素質層次不同的人，希望我們能開始理性客觀看待自己吧。