In my experience, Chinese "regular folk" are pretty blunt, or what some may call "based". If you're fat, they'll say "hey, fatty!". The "pejorative" term for white people is "dabizi", which means "big nose". They don't say these things to insult so much, they just state what they consider to be obvious as a way to identify people - think "Little Rascals" in the USA of the 20's and 30's. Nicknames regarding physical features were common and not necessairly meant to insult.
My Mandarin teacher was "straight off the boat", although she glommed onto capitalism pretty fast - after one semester at a "language school", she made a separate deal with me to continue classes privately, cutting out the middle man :)
She taught university by day, and she, without any prompting by me, asked me "why are black people so lazy?". I was taken aback a little not so much by her opinion but that she was so matter-of-fact about stating it. I danced around the issue and mentioned that there are plenty of lazy kids in university of all persuasions. But it did strike me that she (and other Chinese, as I discovered later) was so blunt about opinions that would be considered "delicate" in western society.
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