Location: China

Date: 21st century

One day, when I was sitting in a crowded hall waiting for a bus, an old woman approached me. After watching her behavior and some gesture, I guessed she wanted to fool me. Soon she sat down next to my seat. She looked upset. Then she leaned over to me and arrogantly rudely ordered me to tell her the departure time of some bus. I answered with my suspecting eyes. Seconds later, she blamed me in a low voice “Don’t fear! Don’t fear! I am not a bad woman.” I angrily told her that I was not the staff of the bus station, and she should have asked the working staff to know the departure time. A working staff was standing 2 meters away from her. She saw that moment I was not as foolish as she estimated. Then she moved her body and swung on her seat. Minutes later, she left the seat without asking the working staff about the departure time.

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Questions,

Why did the old woman treat me so arrogantly rudely because of the age difference?

Why did they do something bad in an arrogant way? Arrogantly order you, rebuke you, educate you to fool you to offend you? (It is related to Han Chinese traditional beautiful moral value of “to admire the old and surrender to the old to serve the old”.)

Why did she suppose I feared her when I suspected her? Why did she understand my refusal as fear? (She thought Han Chinese must fear the rude vicious offender and surrender to the offender. And she thought I must be the same.)

Why did she fool others in an arrogant way?

Why did she give up after getting angrily responded to?

Why did she have no shame after it was apparent that she told a lie (that she wanted to know the departure time.)? She looked just as usual.

The arrogant rude dishonest coward Han Chinese!