^ Thanks for that, and yes, understood.
However, she is there everytime I go, and she always says the same thing, with the same tone of voice. So, ignoring the possibility she has been having a bad day for the last year and a half, I will contribute it to race.
Have you done any travelling around Asia Astrosmurf? Better still have you had any business dealings with people of Asian nationality? Or even, when was the last time that you were in Sydney? With the risk of being very unpopular, a very large majority of Asian retail/Hospitality workers in Sydney are blatently rude in comparison to their White alternative. Having had a lot of business and travel expreience in Asia I contribute it to a culture gap. The Asian culture, from my experience, is very "Yes, what do you want. here you go bye" type of thing. They are not interested in the friendly salutations, they just do it with minimal fuss and bother and move onto the next item. No one with any amount of experience with Asian people can possibly argue against this. This is just how their culture is, especially in China, doing business with The Chinese is one of the most arduous things you will ever do.
I respect that their culture is this way. However, in a City like Sydney, where customer service is a very competitive industry, their culture does stand out a mile. Especially when you walk away from any shop, service, or facility thinking how rude the initial point of contact for that business was. The initial contact for a business should be the friendliest thing you can find, because it makes people feel good about going there, and on the reverse these people will return because of that.
If I have to be branded a racsist for being realistic about the matter then so be it, however, I still stand to my opinion, along with a large majority of Sydney siders, that rude, or less polite, hospitiality is becoming more and more frequent amongst the Asian workers in Sydney, and has been for a long time.
Thats my justification.
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