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Here's the Nepalese woman's side of the story

It was during monsoon season . A white women came to my tea shop with her son. I offered them tea in my cup. She said, “I prefer to drink in my own cup.” Which was three fold bigger than our normal size. Everything was good before she asked the price of tea. She said, 150 rupees was way too much for a cup of tea and insisted to decrease price but I tried to explain my hardship. She wasn’t listening to me at all. She threw money in-front of me using harsh words. Also, she took pictures of my tea shop and threatened to post it on medias and report local police.

I told not to do so saying this will not help my business in anyways and asked her to delete that photo. But, in return, she took her knife and pointed towards me. She was a devil, she was constantly irritating and triggering my anger and I couldn’t stop myself. [Pasang Gurung, Manang]

British women used her biased GoPro footage to ruin the hospitality image of Nepalese people, now it’s our turn to let the world know what really happened before that video was taken.

150 Nepalese Rupees is about $1.25 USD. For a huge cup of tea: served inside someone's home and halfway up a mountain where supplies need to be moved via human power or pack animals through harsh roads to even get there. And the british tourist still had the gall to complain and threaten to ruin the owners livelihood over a drink that costs less than a third of what it would go for at a London Starbucks. Then she takes out a fucking knife.

There's an unbelievable culture of chauvinism and entitlement among Anglos in Asia where they'll demand everybody bend over backwards to accommodate them and expect to receive the the exact same favours as locals, despite the fact that they refuse to learn the local language and have many times more money sitting around in their bank account than the average family there will earn in a year.