Great! Finally China can be as shallow and self-centered as the west. Can't wait to see chinese people posing with their friends "having fun" or pretending to eat sushi for that extra cultural and intellectual status.
Take a trip to China and you will find just as much self-centered behavior as anywhere else, especially if you want to see the concepts of "standing in line" and "right-of-way" challenged.
You know they already have social networks, right?
"eating sushi"? - wrong country...
Eating sushi because it's not local, ie. exotic. Since facebook was introduced it's one of the ways to promote yourself and your supposed extraordinary lifestyle online.
The GP may have been pointing out that many people in China still have hard feelings over WWII atrocities. I have a Japanese friend who pretended to be Korean when she was living in Beijing because of the hostility she experienced. I think the most blatant hostility she experienced was when her cover was blown because her mother (who can only understand Japanese) called while she was in a cab. The cabbie heard my friend speaking Japanese, and because of that pulled over and made my friend get out.