How do you feel about Chinese people?
I have discovered that people have different views about Chinese people. How do you feel about the Chinese people who live around you or about your Chinese friends?[CN]
我发现人们对中国人有不同的看法。你怎么看待身边的中国人或者你怎么看待你的中国朋友呢？
I live in Shenzhen. It is a city of success stories similar to post war New York where people come to change their destiny. My perception of Chinese people is based on the stories of whom I have met here. Outside the University Town of Shenzhen is a small bike repair shop owned by Tian Cheng, an immigrant from Fuzhou who came to Shenzhen when it was being built.[CN]
我生活在深圳。这是一个充满着成功故事的城市，跟战后的纽约有点类似，人们来到这里改变命运。我对中国人的看法来源于我在这遇到的人的故事。在深圳大学城外边有个小自行车修理铺，店主是田成，他来自福州，深圳才刚建设时就来了。
*Tian Cheng's bike repair shopWhile repairing my bike, he asked me where I was from and what did I study at 北大 (Peking University). I replied in my broken Mandarin that I am from India and that I study 股票 and 金融 (stock markets and finance). Startled he took me inside his shop. He had a live trading screen on his computer to trade stocks in Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange. He asked me which stock he should purchase based on the pages of charts he had prepared. Honestly, I ( with a graduate degree in finance) could not have prepared those charts better[CN]
田成的自行车修理铺 帮我修车时，他问我从哪里来，在北大（北京大学）学什么。我用蹩脚的中文回答他说我来自印度，来学股票和金融。他吃了一惊，把我带进他店里。他电脑屏幕显示的是实时股票交易界面，他在上交所和深交所上炒股。他问我从他准备的图表来看，应该买哪支股票。说实话，作为一名金融专业的毕业生，那些图表我没把握可以比他做得更好。
*Tian Cheng on his trading desk. He said (rough translation):[CN]
田成在交易桌旁。他说：
I trade in stocks because that's the only way I can ensure that my kids go to 北大. I pay more than 15000 RMB in tuition for my kid to go to an English school. The bike shop can give three meals a day but his tuition, no.[CN]
炒股是我能保证小孩上北大的唯一办法。我交了15000块学费让小孩去学英语。这个店铺可以保证一日三餐，但是他的学费就挣不到了。
Tian Cheng and several other people like him whom I have met define China today. People with a burning desire to succeed, who are willing to work harder than anyone has worked before for the betterment of their families. When I compare this to the widespread complacency I have seen in my home country, my appreciation goes to the Chinese people. I have immense respect for hardworking people and I am yet to see complacency in ChinaIt is because of people like him that when a billion Chinese jump, the world shakes.[CN]
田成和其他我遇到的像他那样的人决定着今日的中国。人们急切地想要获得成功，为了家人有更好的生活，他们愿意比以往任何人都更努力的工作。跟在祖国看到的那种广泛的自满自足相比，我更欣赏中国人。我非常佩服努力工作的人，目前我在中国还没看到自负。正因为田成那样的人，当十亿中国人都奋起时，世界为之震撼。
Ni Hao![CN]
你好！
I work in a software company in India. A good portion of our team resides in China. Hence, I've a few Chinese colleagues whom I interact with on a daily basis.[CN]
我在印度的一家软件公司上班。我们团队有好部分人居住在中国。因此我每天都会跟几个中国同事打交道。
They're awfully polite and I find that I need to use loads of 'Thank you's and 'Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening's because they do the same.[CN]
他们超级有礼貌，我发现我要讲好多谢谢，早上好、下午好、晚上好。因为他们都这么说。
The first time I met a male Chinese colleague, I was the one to extend my hand for a handshake. Only then did he reciprocate. He was extremely courteous.[CN]
我第一次遇到一个中国男同事时，是我主动伸手跟他握手的，见我伸手了他才回应我。他非常的有礼貌。
It's a common impression that Chinese people are extremely hard-working and I couldn't agree more. They're very dedicated and they've never turned in sub-standard work.[CN]
大家印象中的中国人工作非常努力，这点我很赞同。他们十分敬业，从不交出低于标准的工作成果。
I once mentioned to a colleague that I found Mandarin fascinating and that I was trying to learn it. Since then, he has been extremely encouraging and he always takes time to answer my silly doubts about the four different tones. I don't know how many times I have said Wan An and he happily corrects me.In short, they are very nice and humble people. [CN]
有一次我跟一个同事说对中文很感兴趣，想学中文。打那以后，他就很热心，不厌其烦的回答我关于4个声调的傻问题。我都不知说过多少次“Wan An”，他都很乐意纠正我。简言之，他们很和气，也很谦虚。
Xie xie![CN]
谢谢！
I met many Chinese students and am good friends with three of them, whom I met last year during my internship at NTU Singapore. Here is how I feel.[CN]
我见过许多中国学生，跟其中三个是好朋友，他们是我在新加坡南洋理工大学实习时认识的。以下是我的看法。
They have difficult names, but also have self-assigned, easy to pronounce nick-name. So, Xuan-bo is Rambo and Jiang is Joey.[CN]
他们的名字很难念，不过都有自己取的、发音简单的别名。所以，Xuan-bo又叫Rambo，而Jiang叫作Joey
English is not the first language for Indians and Chinese. So, its fun to talk in broken English trying to find words, suggesting words in between coversations.[CN]
英语对印度人和中国人来说不是母语。所以，用蹩脚的英语交流时，揣摩措词，推测用词都很有趣。
They don't use Facebook, use a Chinese version of it called Ren Ren.[CN]
他们不用脸书，他们有个中国的版本叫作人人。
They value education a lot, just like Indians they have huge competition to get into prestigious colleges.[CN]
他们很重视教育，跟印度人一样他们也要通过激烈的竞争进入重点大学。
They don't have many siblings due to the one child policy.[CN]
因为计划生育他们没有很多兄弟姐妹。
Opposite of Indian system, Chinese bridegrooms pay dowry.[CN]
跟印度习俗相反，在中国男方付聘礼。
They are punctual, early to work, early to rise and early to bed. They eat dinner so early, around 6-7 pm, its the time when we have evening snacks.[CN]
他们守时，早睡早起，上班早。晚饭吃的也早，大概6、7点，我们的小吃时间。
They think the film 3 idiots describes Indian higher education to a large extent.[CN]
他们认为很大程度上《三傻》这部电影讲述了印度的高等教育。
They can eat everything with chopsticks, my friend even managed to eat roti with chopsticks.[CN]
他们什么东西都可以用筷子吃，我朋友甚至能用筷子吃飞饼。
They like playing basketball, online gaming and Apple products.[CN]
他们喜欢打篮球、玩电子游戏和苹果产品。
They look too young for their age.[CN]
他们比年龄上看上去小得多。
Chinese girls make 'V' sign while posing for a photo.[CN]
中国姑娘拍照时喜欢比手势“V”。
They are very humble, always smiling and happy.[CN]
他们很低调，总是面带微笑，乐呵呵的。
To get some upvotes, here is a photo from the last day of my internship. I am on the right.[CN]
为了增加点人气，我放张照片，这是实习最后一天照的。最右边是我。
XIe Xie.[CN]
谢谢。
I have had a fair share of interaction with the Chinese, mostly folks in their late teens and early 20s. At the risk of making sweeping generalization this is what I could gauge about the Chinese. They are very soft spoken, well mannered and really, really nice people. I was managing a group foreigners for a project and those were really trying times. I had to coordinate with a NGO and this group of foreigners, make sure everything went smoothly. The only problem was everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. Sometimes they would not find transportation from their home to place they were supposed to work, when they did manage one they had no work to do and such. While I would get hell from everyone else in group, these Chinese were almost sympathetic to my plight and sometimes just helped me try to calm down others. At times just teasing me about the some guy who would bicker behind my back. Those were fun timesOf whatever work they could do with the NGOs, while other just shirked at it or could come up with some excuse, the Chinese did it with sincerity and really put in some sweat into it.Once I had to pick up the two Chinese guys at the local Bus Stand, it was a late night pick up (around 2:00 AM). While they had told me that they would arrive early morning (Around 7:00 AM). I got a bit irritated when I got their call at that ungodly hour and may have said something to them about the same. In their stay here would every once in a while apologize for that mix-up. I have yet to see an angry Chinese and I have met more than 50 of them. Also, they can cook mean meal.I'll throw in this pic for bit of glamour -[CN]
我跟中国人很是打过一些交道，大部分是18、9岁的青少年和二十出头的年轻人。我笼统的概括下吧，我对中国人是这么看的。他们说话很温和、有礼貌，是真的真的很友善。当时我在一个项目中负责一群外国人，那段时间真的很有挑战性。我要协调一个非政府组织和这群外国人的事宜，确保一切正常。问题就在于所有可能出错的事情都出了错。有时候是找不到住处跟工作场所间的交通方式啦，要是找到了在工作时又找不到事情做啦，诸如此类的。团队的其他人会责怪我，但这些中国人总是对我的难处报以同情，有时还要帮我让别人冷静下来。有时他们也会拿我取乐，说某某人在我背后说我坏话。那些时候真开心。对于任何他们可以在非政府组织做到的事情，别人可能会逃避或者找理由推脱，中国人总是很认真的对待，投入他们的汗水。有一次我要在当地公交站台接两个中国小伙，时间很晚（大概凌晨2点）。当他们告诉我要到清晨（7点左右）到时，我有点恼火他们在那个不适合的点打电话给我，都想教训他们一番了。他们在的这段时间，总是时不时为那次失误道歉。我还没见到中国人发火，我都遇到过50多个了。还有，他们会做饭。为了更加吸引人，我就放张照片吧。
1. We are very hard working. Parents spent much time of their waking hours working to provide for their families immediate and future needs, almost independent of their earning power. I know doctors working 15 hour days raking in millions and new immigrants working the same hours or longer for $5 per hour.
2. We are generous with close friends and immediate family members. Not much giving to the needy or the sick. Chinese often believe the needy are lazy and the sick should be cared for by family or the government, or worse faking the illnesses. There are not enough of us willing to look eye to eye with people with disabilities and lend a helping hand or just being non-judgemental. The fact that mental, developmental, and physical disabilities are not contagious is somehow loss to many of us.
3. Chinese students are generally very hard-working and often apply themselves fully to academic activities. Extracurricular activities are often taken up with resume dressing in mind or forced upon by parents needing to keep up with the Chens or the Zhangs. Being compassion and helpful are often taught and enforced within a very small social circle. Applying compassion and helpful to the poor and disabled are often not done or done so for sprucing up the college applications.
4. Grandparents are incredibly helpful and protective of their grandchildren. The ones lucky enough to live with their grandkids almost always have the pick up and drop off duty. They can easily be spotted as elderly folks carrying kids' backpacks near schools. They are poor examples for their grand kids as they often don't converse with other Chinese they meet especially not the needy.
5. We are very shy with strangers. Many of us hesitate to say hi to strangers often including people in the community that we see sometimes. People don't say hi in Chinese to people they meet. In the United States, some even struggle to speak to one another in less than fluent English when they couldn't avoid speaking to one another.
6. Many of us give really weak handshakes and have trouble maintaining eye contact when speaking to others.
7. Most of us are pretty smart shoppers except when it comes to name brand stuff. We love name brand goods and love buying second quality or last season's name brand stuff in outlet stores while ignoring discounted brands that are still cheaper. Many of us are crazy with health products with zero scientific proof that they work. There are healthy markets for pills making kids taller to herbal cures that beat back the most aggressive cancer with just one six month treatment from a company that was just founded yesterday for $2,995 plus shipping and handling. All without medical consultation or prescription, of course.
8. Many of us are very financial savvy. We know that we should max out our 401K and when to buy puts to hedge risk. Some of us do fall for pyramid schemes and massive pyramid sales schemes.
9. A lot of us like to watch events unfolding. Many of us like to watch an argument and/or a fight involving non lethal means. A large crowd can quickly form around a fist fight. Some cheer, some wager who will win, some watch silently, but all of them disperse quickly when the police shows up. They have time to watch a fight but have no time to stop the fight or give a statement when the authority arrives.
10. Many of us are very polite with people we know and sometimes to foreigners we don't know. we are very nice to our friends and family but can be very rude toward people we don't know in general with exception to foreigners. It is almost like people in these group know foreigners are not used to their general rudeness toward other Chinese and must show their best face when they interact with foreigners. Foreigner is defined as white.
11. Some of us have trouble putting ourselves in others' positions when we do something. We like to keep our space clean but have no problem with leaving dog poo on neighbors' lawn. Some of these people have no problem with throwing trash where ever they please. When confronted they claim litter ensure jobs for street cleaning crew.
I will update my observations when i think of more. Hopefully we will all continue the good traits and improve upon the not so good ones. I don't claim to be perfect. I am not as out going with other Chinese people as I like and I don't donate enough money toward causes I care. I admit my shortcomings and I am working on them.
So in a way, I'm quite envious of them. As a 'Korean' (I put speech marks as I don't think I'm the typical Korean) it's quite the norm to stay together as a community rather than spread out in foreign countries. This seems to be the case with Chinese people as well. So in a way, it's birds of the same feather thing, and this gives me some level of understanding that normal westerners don't seem to have. Oh, and it also helps that I know some Chinese literature and idioms/ hanzi that I can share with my friends and they can go 'aha!'
Most Chinese people I've met are quite pragmatic as well; if it doesn't directly concern their welfare, it tends not to interest them or at best a mild interest.I'm quite similar as I tend to live life from a realistic/pragmatic point of view, so when we have discussions about that, its quite a breath of fresh air from normal Caucasians who can range from passionate (which many Chinese are as well) to downright too emotional or on some moral pedestal about things, which I find excruciatingly annoying.
Other things I can appreciate is that when they speak good English, they speak *good* English. I mean the straight, non-accented polite speech. While I don't have much difficulty understanding any of the major English slang or accents (having lived in Scotland, Ireland and England) its just quite nice to be around people who sound professional and clear-cut. Having said this, some of the Chinese with a strong accent are quite annoying to hear as well (You don't need to speak tonal with English!). But there's always the choice to avoid them, which I do quite a lot.
I do find it disappointing in a way that they don't use their given Chinese name compared to a convenient English name. I know of Chinese people who are named 'James' or 'Brian' or something like that, and the first thing I ask these guys/girls is "What is your *real* name?". The response they have is quite jarring; they seem a bit taken back or embarrassed to say the names. I understand that some Chinese names can be hard to pronounce (like Xi Xingfeng or Wen Xiaobao) but I honestly think these guys/gals should just give it a chance and embrace their names in public. I've been told many times to anglicize my name into something like 'Robert' or something, and I've refused because, I'm not ashamed to be called what I am, and if people have trouble pronouncing it, then that's their problem.
Diversity of people is wide enough to show the best of humanity and sometimes the worst of it as well. Together they will change the face of the earth like a dormant giant reawakened. Their affect on the world economy is already well known. Their impact on global society and culture still to come but it is coming.
I think one of the traits Chinese people and Americans share is a love for business entrepreneurship.
In common opinion is that Chinese people work much and cheap. So they might be liked more than other immigrants. But I've never heard them fluently speaking in other language.
Chinese names sounds funny. It is quite common that the name is similar to some Lithuanian or Russian word.
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