I’m not going to say too much about this one. Only that I hate the Chinese finger-wag gesture, and I’m not too fond of foreign Chinese language students who adopt it when trying to add a little Chinese cultural flair to their fluency.

One of the reasons that I’m not fond of the finger wag, is that all too often it’s a marker of transition — it can be the first physical action that turns a verbal altercation into an all-out fist fight. Or slap-fight, as in this case. Pay attention to the first ten seconds of the video:


What’s that? You got a finger do you?!
Well, how do you like this! I’m gonna slap that finger!
Oh, you’re gonna kick me now, are ya?
F*ck your mother!

So to all you Chinese language students out there, trying to make every effort to appear fluent, I implore all of you to lay off the finger wagging.

It doesn’t do anybody any good.

P.S. Hands up if you’ve ever seen a man-vs-woman altercation like this before in China. Anybody?

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