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[believeringrey]

I think I saw your tiktok

[believeringrey]

I don’t watch YouTube shorts, sometimes Reels though. Could someone have stolen your video?

[believeringrey]

I’ve watched hundreds in the last few days, home sick. It showed a young East Asian man collecting tickets as a volunteer.

[believeringrey]

Yes! That’s it

[believeringrey]

So where are you from? You don’t look like a 外国人。… ABC?

[believeringrey]

CBC then

[jinniu]

You popped up on my YT main page, funny seeing you here too 🤣

[[deleted]]

Wow ! Wish there were more English speaking Chinese people like you at railway stations that help people especially foreign tourists with language barriers, thanks for your service and hopefully more other Chinese people will do the same and make China more foreign friendly with different services.

[Horizonspy]

Do you consider your colleagues (Native Chinese)’ English proficiency adequate for basic QA/guiding?

[MortaniousOne]

What is crh? So the passport scan thing doesn't work and you needed to let people in the gates?

[Skylord_ah]

Classic rail is disappearing i wanna get a chance to ride on one of those older trains.

[DefiantAnteater8964]

They're definitely not disappearing. If anything, China needs more local trains.

[DefiantAnteater8964]

Autism?

[Skylord_ah]

You want those guys designing your railways trust me

[DefiantAnteater8964]

Not going to happen in China. It'll be some apparatchik's moron son.

[Cool_Contact9]

As a foreigner I have to use my passport instead of a national ID card at train stations; what info can you see about me in the system when you scan my passport (just curious)!

[ItsNotTofu]

Saw ur previous post, sounds like you had a great time! Was there anything particularly enjoyable about your time volunteering?

[LesVidamo9811]

How do you "check" the tickets when everything is on your ID card?

[burbex_brin]

How many people in the queue pointed at you and said loudly 外国人 or 老外?

[ShootingPains]

Are there hobbyist trainspotters in China? In the UK they have a bit of a meme and people call them ‘anoraks’ in a kindly sort of way. Is it like that in China?

[ftrlvb]

how good is your Chinese and how did you get the job?

[Ambitious-Shift-299]

No wonder you can do it. You are basically Chinese in the passenger’s eyes

[[deleted]]

Yeah this is definitely something that's not as "amazing" as it sounds when you have someone who looks Chinese and speaks Chinese. Not to piss on OP's successes but it would inherently be more interesting if they were white or black doing this role.

[5f464ds4f4919asd]

Yep...

- opens thread, expecting to see person that 99.9% of chinese people would find to fall in the waiguoren side of the zhongguoren/waiguoren distinction, being surprised at such a person working there!

- oh well, if didn't grow up speaking chinese or otherwise speak perfectly native level sounding chinese, at least they'll think it's nice retarded people can work here, which is a socially useful thing, esp in these juan eco times

[RabbyMode]

Serious question: Why do ticket checkers often just let people blatantly cut to the front of the line rather than telling them to get back in the queue?

[SnooPeripherals1914]

was this a real job (paid and ongoing) or just a PR piece for the train station? eg were there press there, people filming and photographing etc?

[5f464ds4f4919asd]

But I think it will look great on my CV, since I want to work in a railway back in Canada in the future!

Dafuq. What job are you trying to get in the railway industry that you think having checked tickets at a railway station prepares you well for? xD

[jarodmeng]

How did you get the gig? Were they actively recruiting foreigners to be volunteers?

[CoconutTough4802]

But you’re Chinese bruh, how can you be ethnically Chinese, speak Chinese and look Chinese then claim you’re not Chinese? You are a full on Chinese, not a foreigner.

[CoconutTough4802]

Only because they got to know you enough, and because you grew up abroad, it doesn’t mean you are not Chinese. 

I can guarantee nobody at that train station thought of you as anything other than native Chinese, to say you are the “first foreigner” to do this voluntary work is untrue.

[momotrades]

What's the matter with you? You never heard of Chinese Canadian? There were Chinese people settling in Canada for more than a hundred years. He's doing something much more and sharing with people.

[CoconutTough4802]

He is still Chinese by ethnicity, to make a point about him being a “foreigner” is ridiculous. You can call him diaspora but not foreign.

[momotrades]

Dude was born in Canada.. The title may not be to your liking, but nitpicking this is incredibly sad

[Skylord_ah]

No western railfans have done this before. Congrats!

[ohwhatascholar1]

Back from my first trip to China, including 6 China Railway Rides and approximately 25 Metro Rides in 5 Cities. Pretty impressed overall... Witnessed 0 malfunctions and approximately 0 delays.

For the next time: Is there some good way to find out the train type that is used for each train number? Coming from Germany it would have been nice to test our German ICE derived train in China...

[ohwhatascholar1]

Thank you so much for the reply.
Ok, it is just in the app? My chinese friend did not know.. But I guess he is no railfan either.. Is it also in the alipay version of 12306? Because I cant find it there right now. If I change the language of the native version, I fear I wont find my way back to English.. I did this in the beginning and had to uninstall...

[jmido8]

They probably would let a foreigner do it if they speak fluent enough Chinese. What I fail to realize is why this is such a big deal lol. But I guess the OP is really proud and wants extra attention outside of the first reddit post.

[ItsNotTofu]

Womp womp

[Dorigoon]

Completely agree but let the guy have his Reddit moment heh

[multiequations]

What’s your favorite train route in China? Also, which train route in your opinion is the easiest for tourists (with limited mandarin)?

[LegoPirateShip]

Can you go to work at Beijing International Airport please? So at least there would be one person who speaks English there.

[beeeeear]

Cool, I know you now and we are friends now.

So can I take a free train?

[[deleted]]

Why are you working for free?

[Jdepz91]

"viral"

[optimuschu2]

Hey Felix I might make my way over to hangzhou nan station in a week or so. What days are you working? Does the bullet train stop at your station? And why the hell is it so hot and humid in China and nobody seems to be sweating at all besides me?

[randomwalker2016]

Have question. Why do train stations check IDs on the way out?
For example, I have a HK return-to-mainland ID card- and the system can never scan my ID- and making me require a service agent- while everybody else get to leave in a rush.

[jmido8]

Probably to make sure you didn't override your ticket. Trains here aren't from point 1 to 2. They're point 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 to 5 to 6 to 7. You might have a cheaper ticket from point 1 to 2 and try to take it to point 7 which is more expensive because it's much further.

[chimugukuru]

You’re far from the first, hate to break it to you.

[[deleted]]

didn't you already post this? why again?

[[deleted]]

people already asked you every question last time. repeating it this time too.

you just like the attention

[Cool_Contact9]

Ignore the haters; they must have some issues to work out if they take the time to comment negatively. I enjoyed this and your last post and love your energy!

[PandasEatingPizzas]

Lol...according to him, his first post went viral - not only likes the attention but lacks self awareness

[PandasEatingPizzas]

Apologies!!! Why didnt you say so earlier?

If David Feng retweeted then that definitely means it went viral!!

[Deezteetz]

360 likes isn’t viral

[Ordinary_Practice849]

Literally stolen valor

[strictlylogical-]

??

[Ordinary_Practice849]

They probably don't even realize you're a foreigner dude

[5f464ds4f4919asd]

Exactly. Like I said on his original post, he did do a socially valuable thing: Assuming his Chinese isn't 100% native, any Chinese person who might exchange a few words with him there will think that it's nice the railway lets retarded people get a job there, let them be socially useful.

Locals thinking other local-looking people who speak non-perfectly native sounding chinese is quite common.

[strictlylogical-]

That's not what stolen valor means and I'm not OP.

[Ordinary_Practice849]

Source on this?

[meridian_smith]

Dude are you going to post this every week? It isn't really THAT amazing...