A student studying abroad wrote back home and told of something funny that he had encountered. Once he and a classmate were by a pool as a short westerner passed in front of them. One commented to the other without much thought, "How can he be so short?"
不過這招漸漸行不通了，一位留美學生在家書中寫了一個笑話：有一次他和同學在游泳池畔看見一個身量矮小的洋人打從面前走過，順口就說：「這老外怎麼長得那麼矮？」