Comments on: Picture of Obama with the waitress at the welcome banquet sparks comical skit

By: f

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:03:26 +0000

The last is a fake one. Because these are Chinese Navy.

By: jay

jay — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:20:28 +0000

I wonder if he got to try the bai jiu

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Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:25:06 +0000

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By: Niiic

Niiic — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:50:20 +0000

when i was in china we always thank the waiter/waitress, not every chinese ignores them, most people in my city do show respect and say thank you or what ever.

By: Xiao Wang

Xiao Wang — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:52:40 +0000

Guess it was a slow week for this to be a major topic on the Chinese sites. He does look kinda goofy in the first pic though but I guess if the photographers take 4-500 shots at an event a certain number of pics are bound to look weird.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:53:51 +0000

I noticed during my year in China that Chinese people would always ignore wait staff except to bark orders at them. I was always taught to say thank you when someone does something for me, including wait staff, and it always flustered the Chinese waiters/waitresses to have a foreigner pay just that much personal attention to them. That’s at least 50% of what’s happening in the pictures of O with the waitresses. The other 50% is that he probably at least suspected the students at the university question and answer were plants and so by speaking to the waitresses he might actually get to talk to a few regular Chinese people. Some of them might be undercover internal police but maybe not all of them.