Why should you never go to China?

WARNING!

All I wrote in this answer are out of my personal experience and my family’s and friends’. So if you have different ideas, you are very welcome to share it. But it would be better if you also write down the reasons and stories with details to help us to understand this country more.

China isn’t a perfect country. Surely she has dark sides. But she isn’t a living hell for human beings that must not be visited.

1. If you are a heavy drug user, don’t go to China because it’s really hard to find a drug dealer there. Not an irony here.
2. If you are a drug dealer, don’t go to China for the sake of your own life. Not an irony here as well. China has very strict law about drug dealing.
3. If you believe Tibet Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Hong Kong, Macau should secede from China and you are planning on shouting it out loud in Chinese in the middle of the street in China, don’t go to China because the passer-bys will probably punch your face.
4. If you think a country without democracy is a living hell for human beings, don’t go to China. I doubt it if you could actually understand the beauty of China ( the people, the culture, the history, the view and etc.) so don’t waste your time and money.
5. If you look down on people with no religious belief, don’t go to China because you will be exausted for looking down on people all day.
6. If you are allergic to peanut, don’t go to China unless you have learnt how to ask if the restaurant uses peanut oil or not in Chinese (David de Gruijl suggested that you could print what you are allergic to in local language on a card to show the waiter). Otherwise you could put your life in danger since most Chinese restaurants never put their attention on this.
7. If you have a fragile and sensitive respiratory system，don’t go to China. But there are cities with good air quality like Nagri, Ledong, Yangpu, Wuzhishan, Qoqek, Diqingzhou, Aba, Shannan, Altay, Linzhi.
8. If you are a terrorist, don’t go to China. It has death penalty.
9. If you are a white trash/black trash/asian trash/alien trash, don’t go to China. They have had enough trash in China.
10. If you speak no Chinese and refuse to use translate apps when travelling in a less developed city, don’t go to China (Or at least don’t visit those cities).
11. If you are addicted to Pandas, Chinese food, don’t go to China or you may find it hard to leave the country.
12. If you can’t live without your guns, don’t go to China.
13. If you expect there will be kung fu masters everywhere, don’t go to China. It’s bitter to break your own fantasy.
14. If you are a hugger and will have your heart broken for being refused, don’t go to China. Most Chinese are not fond of intimacies between strangers or even friends.
15. If you drink only iced water, don’t go to China. Iced water doesn’t have the room to survive here. We love hot water. Just kidding. China has iced water, but not as popular as it is in most western countries.
16. If you only use tampons/menstrual cups and believe women who use napkins are out of their mind, don’t go to China. Only 2% of Chinese women are using tampons. You can buy tampons or menstrual cups in the supermarket of the city area. If you choose to live in the countryside, buy them online using Taobao.
17. If you can’t use chopsticks, never mind. Just go to China, I am sure they will have forks and knives. If they don’t, long live the SPOON!
18. If you think you are good at playing DOTA or any other games, don’t go to China. The oversea Chinese you know do maths, the local Chinese play games.
19. If you can’t stand crowded streets and loud conversations, don’t go to China. If the Chinese didn’t turn their voice down when they are abroad then they will definitely not do it either in their own country. Plus, talking out loud is kind of their culture.
20. If you love and care for your pets very much, don’t go to China with them. Cuz the Chinese will eat them, no, no, no, just kidding! Because there aren’t enough good pet clinics in a large part of China. And they cost you a lot. And pets aren’t allowed to enter 90% of buildings including supermarkets, restaurants, companies or hotels.
21. If you love shopping for luxury products, don’t go to China. The tariff is terrifying. But HK is an exception.
22. If you can’t stand squat toilets, don’t go to China. We do have a lot of toilets with a pedestal for sitting as well but not as popular as squat toilets. Exploded bladder alert!
23. If you are afraid of members of the CCP, don’t go to China. There are over 90,000,000 members of the CCP in China (though most of them just exist for this fabulous number). Honestly, a lot of CCP members dislike the CCP as well. They just don’t feel the urge to leave it (a lot of paper work to do if they want to) since the difference between being one and not being one is slight for most people. They don’t get to vote anyway.
24. If you can’t live without porn and have no idea how to use a VPN/Chinese social media, don’t go to China. If you have them in your U-stick, don’t upload them/sell them/ share them. Normally, if you do what I mentioned, there won’t be police officers coming to get you arrested but just be careful about it.
25. If you are a buddhist/muslim/christian/believer of Flying Spaghetti Monster/ other kinds of religious believers, don’t go to China cuz the CCP and the Chinese will kill you. Hahahahahhahaha! LOL! That’s just a terrible joke. Sorry. Trust me, the CCP/ the Chinese government/ the Chinese has no interest in you or your religious belief unless you are forcing other people to believe in it.
26. If you believe Taiwan is an independent and sovereign country, don’t go to China. Nah! A joke again. As long as you don’t yell that Taiwan is a country called the Republic of Taiwan in Chinese in the middle of the street then you will be perfectly fine. You will probably be fine even if you do so. It depends on if people who hear you are aggressive. No police will come and arrest you. William Huang suggested me to write this one.
27. If you hate or are disgusted by the people led by the CCP, no matter how they feel about the communism system, don’t go to PRC. A lot of Chinese have no idea what Communism really is and are not communists. But if you still can’t accept it, then only visit ROC (Taiwan). Jacek Pytlarczyk suggested me to write this one.
28. If you eat only gluten free food and know nothing about using online service to order them, only go to the developed cities that have western high end supermarkets in China. Bo Dong (Bo Dong) suggested this one.
29. If you don’t enjoy living in a safe place where people are very nice to foreigners, don’t go to China. Brian O’Connell suggested this one.
30. If you don’t look like an Asian and hate it when people pay attention to you, then don’t go to the undeveloped cities in China. The crowd would be curious about you and probably stare at you more often.
31. But most of them mean no harm.

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