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Everywhere we go, we hear people saying "waiguo" - foreigner.
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Everywhere we go, we hear people saying "waiguo" - foreigner.
TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Take the often encountered waiguo guizi 外國鬼子; i.e., "foreign devil": if we were to think it through, we'll realize that it actually contains an element of "respect".
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Chinese people have begun more often to refer to foreigners as waiguo penyou or keren ` foreign friends or guests '; laowai ` foreigners' is often heard: wai means ` outsider 'and lao is a particle with only a mild derogatory sense.
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