Is Speaking Chinese Still Surprising for Foreigners in China?

I would imagine that, you know, your, your spoken Chinese must be very, very good. Uh, mine is just so so conversational. But, um, I still practice it though today, even when I'm exercising. I I I try to keep up with the vocabulary. But, isn't it amazing? I don't know if this is still the case, but you tell me, are people in China still astonished to see a wàiguórén, you know, white person from America who can speak Chinese? Is that still amazing or is that more common now that it's not such a big deal? Well, I think is if you go to the bigger cities like the Beijing, Shanghai, it's a little bit more common, you know, because there are a lot of foreigners that have lived there for a long time that speak Chinese. Uh, but certainly when you start traveling on the countryside or you go off the beaten path or you're, you're, you're riding that high-speed rail and meeting some, you know, potentially some people from smaller, smaller cities in China, yeah, they absolutely are amazed and, you know, and I think what's, what's fun, you know, living in China for over 10 ...