Women Argue With Foreigner Over Queue? It's All Staged!

2016/05/24

Zhang Qianran

Program Code: 0909346160505012 Source: Miaopai

Seeing someone jumping the queue is hardly ever a pleasant thing. Rather it is very irritating for those who stand in for long to find someone just popping up ahead of them. This might explain why a video went viral on May 20.

In the video, a man who appeared to be from Africa scolded two women for jumping the queue. He was in the queue for steamed buns when a woman sneaked in.

On seeing that, the man used Mandarin to politely persuade the woman not to jump the queue.

A friend of the woman answered in Wuhan dialect to him that she didn’t understand Mandarin.

Thereafter, he used Wuhan dialect to tell her not to jump the queue

The woman then started arguing with him in northeastern dialect saying that she didn’t jump the queue.

The man replied with the same dialect.

The video provoked a flood of criticism towards two women on Weibo. Netizens reproached the women for their bad manners while complimenting the man for his upright standing as well as good control over local dialects.

But some also doubt that the video was plotted.

The criticism has evolved into an unrelenting outrage against the two women. Eventually, the identities of trio were dug out.

The woman surnamed Wang admitted that video was a plotted one - to remind citizens of manners and test them as well. The use of dialect was meant to draw the attention of the netizens.

The man also showed up and defended the women. He said:

Please do not scold them. The video was shot with a purpose to attract people's attention to such manners.

So how was the video made?

According to Wang, the video was shot on May 10 beside a steamed-bun shop in Hongshan block in the city of Wuhan, in central China's Hubei Province. Five students took part in it.

At the beginning of the video, she said it was plotted to test the reaction of the public.

They had to shoot it all thrice because the man was not good in local dialect.

The next day they uploaded the video on Weibo but the feedbacks were few. Due to the poor response, they decided to delete the video.

However, the video was uploaded again by some unknown uploader with her introduction cut. The video went on to become a hit this time.

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Women Argue With Foreigner Over Queue? It's All Staged!

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