As fiddlehead was mentioning China:
One of my brothers-in-law had been to China on his own, many years ago, when getting a Visa was still difficult.
He intended to do some studies in Accupuncture (which he did), then took a week off to visit various sights, the Big Wall amongst them.
He told the story that while he was hiking along the top of the wall happily, he suddenly faced a group of Chinese. Which were puzzeled by his "long nose" appearence, hid their faces and started giggling helplessly with shaking shoulders and no help, no end to it.
He had to push through the laughing, roaring group and head on. The same happened at the next corner, and the next, the whole time he kept hiking.
After so many hours of being laughed at by everybody, he broke down and crept into a corner, weeping.
Obviously HE was the strangest encounter all of THEM ever had.