Imagine being at the local fast food restaurant. This restaurant is completely full. Well, there are many tables that have two people sitting together eating and talking away. You do not know these people. In fact, you have never seen them in your life. There are no free tables available. Do you go sit down and have your meal at their table?
If you live in the United States, the answer is no, that table is occupied. Those two chairs where no one is sitting have a force field around them and they can not be occupied by any other person not known by the two people. Even if no table or other chairs are available, the chances of those chairs ever being occupied by a stranger is slim to none.
China is different in this respect. Any open chair can be occupied by any person who eats in the restaurant. The force field created by the person or group of persons extends just to the chair they occupy. It is very likely that two people can be eating at a table with two other complete strangers. This situation is very normal at alot of the local fast food type restaurants that serve western or Chinese fast food. In fact, at Chinese hotels, the meals are served at round tables with many chairs. Many families will sit down together and eat without even knowing each other.
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