Hongkong fordert Einwohner auf, „mehr zu lächeln“, um den Tourismus wieder anzukurbeln

https://time.com/6985732/hong-kong-smile-more-hospitality-campaign-tourism/

48 comments

  2. china is a shitty sitcom now telling it’s audience to laugh on queue. Good riddance to it’s tourism, that show sucks.

  3. Listen, I’ve been smoking these really cool cigarettes. I think we can change our entire policy if we just tell people to smile more. Oh yeah dude that’s a perfect plan. Let me take another puff.

  5. I do find Cantonese speaking vendors to be the rudest lots. A good percentage of them behave like the soup Nazis, at least in Vancouver.

    A couple weeks ago, I was at a bakery, I asked a pretty common question, the aunty looked at me like I said something monumentally stupid, and said: read the sign. I was like: aunty, I am trying to give you my business here. The Baos were good though.

    Mainlanders got lots of shit on Reddit, and lots of them are of the obnoxious sorts, talking loudly or skipping lines, but if one goes to their businesses, they are typically very friendly and helpful.

  7. This is some “Happiness is mandatory” tier dystopia holy shit.

  8. “The beatings shall continue until morale improves.”

  11. Like that’s what’s keeping us from going there LOL

  14. Pfft. The song “Smile.”

    How about giving people a reason to smile? No?

  15. I always wanted to visit Hong Kong. Now I won’t because I’ll get arrested by Winnie the Pooh for saying just that.

  16. Yeah I just don’t have interest in going to CCP China. It’s not the smiles

  17. yea, the lack of a smile from someone is the reason i won’t visit. nothing else. just that.

  18. Smiling won’t save HK tourism. Separating from China will.

  19. First they completely ruin the city and now they’re demanding that people be more welcoming and agreeable. Morale in HK is at an all-time low and the CCP will come up with all sorts of convoluted explanations, excuses and tourism campaigns because they’ll never be able to admit that THEY are the reason why the HK that people loved and enjoyed visiting is now gone.

  20. People are miserable but CCP tell them to smile (or else).

  22. “all creatures will make merry under pain of death.”

  24. Would you smile if you had democracy taken away from you?

  25. Lol you know, I heard they smile a lot there, I think I’ll visit… Said 0 people.

  27. Smile when you say that !!! we hear your words, we can feel your smile 🙂

  29. Just goes to show how out of touch the HK government is.

    It’s a known stereotype that people from large cities tend to be cold / unfriendly. Now imagine one of the most expensive cities to live in, plagued with stagnant wages (minimum wage is a whopping 5.12 USD) and a stressful work culture. The last thing anyone wants to do is put on a smile and do a monkey dance for the tourists.

  32. Never stepping foot in CCP territory sorry. I’ve been to Taiwan and love it though

  33. As a famous man once said:

    *Let’s put a smile on that face*

  34. yeah nothing in the world could get me to step foot in china

  36. The chinese government has implemented a smile-detector feature in their permanent surveillance cameras installed in every public space.

    Citizens who are seen to not-smile for more than 5 seconds will be abducted and sent to reeducation camps where they will be kindly taught the countless values of smiling, based on traditional chinese science

    The measure is anticipated to be loved by everyone and people who disagree cannot be found anywhere on the island

    Another great success for the chinese party /s

  39. It isn’t the disheveled faces or pleading desperate looks I get from everyone that keep me from HK. It’s that palatable taint that the CCP puts on everything. Almost like you can taste the incompetence and desperation that soaks everything the CCP does.

  42. Yeah tourism is down because no one wants to be in China if Xi decides that “it’s Taiwan week”.

  44. I get this is thread is pretty negative, but my brother went to China on business several times and he enjoyed himself tremendously.  Did a lot of tourist stuff while he was there and generally speaks glowingly of the trips. 

    That said, this was mainland China and not Hong Kong.

  45. ctrl-f smile, it shows up 1 time in the article:

    >Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee says “We should be more courteous, we should be more helpful, we should **smile** more, we should take the extra mile to promote Hong Kong’s hospitality so that Hong Kong will become a well-known place where visitors are welcome.”

    and the guy said this because locals are rude to customers

    but you can just make up such a title and drop it in /r/worldnews, and the propaganda will write itself

  48. They had a perfect opportunity to say “Let’s go the extra smile” and botched it. Granted the CCP continues to do the same thing with the country, so no surprises here.

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