Before came here, I had always been telling that Shanghai is an open-minded and multi-culture metropolis, as well as some controversies on discrimination which can almost be ignored right now. But it finally turn out that the ‘should be ignored’ thing may not be ignored at all.

Let’s begin with my friend’s tragedy. After graduate our school gave us a certification which would make us buy the railway ticket at a discount. So two of my schoolmates bought the discount ticket to Shanghai. However, when got off the train and passed the exit, the trainman forced them to compensate the discount money unless they can show them the student certification which had been handed in long before. Right at this emergent moment, one of my friends said ‘I am a local people’ in Shanghainess to the man, so that he can pass by without any trouble. But for the other guy, it is not a lucky day at all.

Then it is another experience of me. One day I was walking to my school when a woman with her daughter passed by and asked me in Shanghainess that if the bus along this road can go to the Zhangjiang subway station. Since I came here recently and had no sense of this dialect, honestly I told her that I was not able to understand what she had said. She suddenly turned hostile and asked me again cold and cheerless. After I answered they turned around and went away so rapidly that I could not tell them where the right bus to take. What a pity!

Besides these, we often faced Shanghainess call names in public which made us really uncomfortable. Fortunately, all these phenomena are rare. But it is still an unneglectable block in Shanghai’s way to be an international and harmonious city. The Shanghainess should realize that without the efforts from the whole country Shanghai cannot develop at so high a speed and stand on this vertex and it is time for them to become more hospitable and humility.