@blobbles: Fine story, but it wouldn't affect my faith in Chinese people one way or the other, since I'd hesitate to generalize so broadly. Similarly, I think I'd hesitate to generalize about the people in your country (whatever it is) just from this action of yours (which was obviously the right thing to do). The categories Chinese/foreigner are useful for some things, but they don't need to be dragged into everything (no criticism meant) - most of us can recognize that any 2 persons are different or similar from each other in any number of ways (male/female, old/young, farmer/lawyer, etc.), but we are often encouraged to think excessively in terms of national identity by those who run nations and want followers.