So, how many square miles of the 3,700,000 million square miles of China have your traversed and how many of the ~1.5 billion Chinese (properly capitalized, just as “American” should be) have you encountered to make these observations?
Have you ever considered that to the Chinese people you encountered, YOU were the barbarian unable to assimilate into the Chinese culture?
When I took some Chinese history courses, the #1 question was always, “What makes a person Chinese?” and the answer was “If you accept and understand the precepts of Chinese philosophies, you’re Chinese.” When I first showed great interest in Chinese movies and music, the store personnel would remark that I’m not Chinese. When I said I was Japanese / Okinawan (Yes there’s a difference!), they laughed and said “Close enough, you’re Chinese [unspoken: because you love, respect and accept Chinese culture]”*
I personally don’t think China will ever “take over the world”, simply because those in power know that historically, you can’t rule over countries and peoples who won’t assimilate into Chinese culture.
*This sentiment has been expressed several times by my Chinese, Taiwanese (Yes, there’s a difference!) and Korean friends. It’s all about love, respect and acceptance!
To the OP:
Thank you for your submission.
While your description and example for the definition of the word “Bigot” is very descriptive and illustrating, we simply cannot accept any descriptive definitions that are so verbose.
773 words is simply too long for use in our dictionary.
If you can cut the length down to 250 words, we might reconsider.
Thanks.
Mainland Chinese are peasants. This has nothing to do with Mao, and everything to do with the massive increase in wealth and massive movement to the cities in the last 30 years. Before that, peasants were in the country, they didn’t have anyone to push in front of, and they grabbed everything they could get when they had a chance – and went hungry the rest of the time. They spit and shit and pushed and grabbed, just like peasants in India or Italy
And Americans were the worlds worst spitters until the TB eradication campaigns: it’s not like Americans are naturally superior.
I wonder if the traditional Chinese ideas about sanitation haven’t lasted longer than the traditional English ideas about sanitation because of the continuing influence of Chinese Medicine, rather than just poverty: either way John Snow (1813-1858) described people living in buildings plastered with feces: until they had the money, the English just shit in the streets like everybody else.
China today is still recovering from 35 years of fanatical Maoism, under which being unselfish and caring about doing a good job got you absolutely nothing in return; where in fact one faced active obstacles against trying to make things better. When the enforced communalism was relaxed in the 1980s, the survivors had thoroughly learned to look out for #1. The Party still controls China and development is still tied to gaining the backing of some bureaucratic official. What you see today is a bizarre admixture of traditional Chinese culture, the legacy of Maoism, and a quasi-free market.
The lack of amenities and the official corruption are typical for undeveloped countries. We expect pure wholesome food; the Chinese used to consider themselves lucky to have food of any sort, period. BTW, cold beer is a German/ American thing originally; in for example England it was traditionally served at cellar temperature at best.
When my mom was in isolation because it was thought she might have TB (fortunately, she didn’t), I wore a face mask when I stayed overnight with her. I was never told that I had to change my mask, which was the same one I had for two days.
Doctors wear the same mask for hours during surgery, so their effectiveness is obviously more than 10-15 minutes.
Masks, even thin cotton ones, protect against inhaling and exhaling airborne particles (viruses, dust, etc). Even covering your mouth and nose when you sneeze or cough helps prevent the airborne spread of your germs. Note that the keyword is: airborne. The mask may be saturated with germs, but unless someone else touches the mask, the germs are isolated.
As for not covering the nose, cover your mouth when you sneeze and measure how much air comes out of your nostrils alone. The particles exhaled from your mouth during a cough or sneeze can travel dozens of feet horizontally. The particles from sneeze travel far less and generally oriented vertically.
Bring any foreigner (who has never visited America before and little to no knowledge of the U.S.) to a poor section of the city and they’ll likely return home with horror stories of how dirty and crime ridden the ENTIRE U.S. is.
Sorry, I’m normally never like this, but I find it ridiculous (if some of the posters aren’t deliberately trolling) that people will criticize an entire nation and culture based on their VERY limited experience with the country and peoples. This isn’t only about China and the Chinese, but could be experienced anywhere in the world.
A group of blind men heard that a strange animal, called an elephant, had been brought to the town, but none of them were aware of its shape and form. Out of curiosity, they said: “We must inspect and know it by touch, of which we are capable”. So, they sought it out, and when they found it they groped about it. In the case of the first person, whose hand landed on the trunk, said “This being is like a thick snake”. For another one whose hand reached its ear, it seemed like a kind of fan. As for another person, whose hand was upon its leg, said, the elephant is a pillar like a tree-trunk. The blind man who placed his hand upon its side said, “elephant is a wall”. Another who felt its tail, described it as a rope. The last felt its tusk, stating the elephant is that which is hard, smooth and like a spear.
I heard and have retold this story for years, but the two of you have added elements that I’ll be sure to add! Audience appropriate of course!:rolleyes:
You shouldn’t encourage me…
