[robotkdick]

The experiences the OP has had are priceless, and read something like a novel if someone like John Kennedy Toole had he written about living in China (comic in some respects, but also surreal). The Snow White episode in the elevator is delightful: the father having to explain to his daughter that being associated with Snow White is a good thing, and she being upset at being labeled.

The world is shrinking and being stretched at the same time.

[chj]

> the father having to explain to his daughter that being associated with Snow White is a good thing

How can that be a bad thing? I honestly don't understand(I'm from China).

[lhl]

Maybe you've never had the pleasure, or it's different in other cultures, but having experienced plenty of it first hand, it's incredibly off-putting when people point/stare/or talk about you, especially if they do so in front of your face because they think you can't understand their language.

[basica]

Children like to blend in and not be noticed as different (adults too of course, but to a lesser degree than children). The label itself is inoffensive, she just didn't like the fact she wasn't seen as just another kid.