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TIL a clothes shop in Beijing banned Chinese customers and is perfectly legal in China as there is no legal ban on racial discrimination. One employee’s explanation for the ban was that some Chinese customers are too annoying & that Chinese women often try lots of clothing but end up buying nothing.

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