Thank JJ,
I experience pretty much the same. The locals in my neighborhood recognize and greet me with a smile and a Ni Hao /Hello. Although, almost every time I enter our local market I do hear comments about sharpening knives, there's a lao wai in here. haha. Just another ethnic joke. I usually pantomime sharpening a knife and we all get a laugh out of it. Walking the streets is kind of fun, too as the girls really are a highlight here, but I get that response everywhere is Asia. People tell me it's my blue eyes that they find so attractive. The rest of the packaging is middle aged and balding. Not prime beef, for sure.
My complaint/whine revolved specifically around the expats and their snobby "better than you" attitude. It is something that I have found to be different from many of the other places I have lived...and I have lived around the world and in larger cities than Kunming. Judging by some of the harsh responses, I think that I was correct in my analysis that a lot of the folks here really are just jerks, playing ostrich and sticking their heads in the sand. Which is quite funny, 'cause that's what they look like when we play "the game"
