I swear, white people made that shit up just so they can mental masturbate about the idea of other humans viewing them as literal gods.
I have never met a single person from anywhere in Asia do that while in college, and the university I went to is pretty popular for international students.
As an average looking mayo, I had tons of people asking to take my picture in the middle of Xi'an around 2016. I wasn't there as a tourist though so we weren't anywhere near the terracotta army or anything and were probably the only non-Chinese people to be at the rural temples and stuff we were visiting. I thought one guy was asking me to take his picture in front of a big mural, but he pulled me in for a selfie instead. I don't think it was like "omg a white person" though as much as "omg a foreigner in my part of town". If they weren't so racist, someone in rural Arkansas (or wherever) would probably get excited about a Chinese person in their town just because its a rare circumstance.
I swear, white people made that shit up just so they can mental masturbate about the idea of other humans viewing them as literal gods.
I have never met a single person from anywhere in Asia do that while in college, and the university I went to is pretty popular for international students.
Maybe if you go to tourist sites in China and it was 15 years ago? Considering tourist sites are visited by people from the countrysides
As an average looking mayo, I had tons of people asking to take my picture in the middle of Xi'an around 2016. I wasn't there as a tourist though so we weren't anywhere near the terracotta army or anything and were probably the only non-Chinese people to be at the rural temples and stuff we were visiting. I thought one guy was asking me to take his picture in front of a big mural, but he pulled me in for a selfie instead. I don't think it was like "omg a white person" though as much as "omg a foreigner in my part of town". If they weren't so racist, someone in rural Arkansas (or wherever) would probably get excited about a Chinese person in their town just because its a rare circumstance.