Beijing store bans Chinese from shopping for being 'too annoying'!

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Last Updated : Nov 29 2014 | 12:50 PM IST

A store in Beijing Yabao Road caused quite a stir by putting on a sign that read "Chinese not admitted. Staff excluded."

According to South China Morning Post, the clothing store in Beijing, which mainly sells to foreigners, put up the sign banning the Chinese customers after receiving complaints for the crowd of being "too annoying".

As per the reports, a salesperson said that they didn't want to put the sign, giving an impression that the Chinese looked down upon themselves, but after facing to pay a foreign customer 5,000 dollars to settle the theft of his wallet by a Chinese shopper, and people who try on lots of clothes but didn't buy anything, they decided to hang the sign up.

However, micro bloggers didn't buy the explanation, and said that the sign was similar to that at the entrance of Huangpu Park in the 1890s that said "No dogs or Chinese allowed", which too was reserved for foreigners.

Meanwhile, legal scholar Li Xiandong, of the China University of Political Science and Law, said that the sign might be discriminatory, but since the mainland had not outlawed racial discrimination, it wasn't breaking any laws.

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First Published: Nov 29 2014 | 12:38 PM IST

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