It is hard to say what development is. Most people equate it with economic development. It would be nice if you could have a society with well developed infrastructure and social services and everybody's basic needs guaranteed, but without mass consumerism, but that doesn't seem to have happened anywhere. I visited ... Full Comment>>

"I can't take anything you say seriously because you already have an obvious bias towards anything that has to do with Africa." Well, I said that most of the African students I met in my dorm where loud, arrogant and obnoxious. People say much worse stuff about the Chinese on sites like this the whole day ... Full Comment>>

This has descended into a futile trading back and forth of insults, and you are now being openly racist when you say that the Chinese "have an innate criminal proclivity", I will not stoop down to the same level and start insulting Africans, although it would be very easy, given the obvious state of both ... Full Comment>>

"Africa may not be rich in infrastructure but they are wise ,educated ,civilised and openminded than the chinese by all standards." What the hell is this supposed to mean? If you are going to generalize, then I will do some generalization of my own, and I will say that stating that Africans are more ... Full Comment>>

I am not "clueless about world history" at all. When it comes to colonialism, China was essentially colonized as well by the way. The point I am making is that China has managed to develop while not just blindly imitating Western methods of government, laws and educational systems which, while perhaps the ... Full Comment>>

I think the second option in the questionaire is silly. It's not that the Chinese are "lazy to learn english the proper way", it's that English is seriously difficult for them because their language is so different, as most chinglish signs will show you. Full Comment>>

I don't think chinglish signs are a serious problem, they are amusing and generally get their point across, or if they don't, they don't usually have anything very important to say. I think the best ones are the "don't walk on the grass" signs, like "tender fragrant grass, how hard-hearted to trample ... Full Comment>>

Look here SCO, I am Jewish and I find your last phrase disgusting and offensive. It is terrible to see that this sort of anti-Jewish conspiracy theories are making their way into China. I tend to defend China in such forums, I think it's ok to say "we chinese", but your outburst on the Jews really does ... Full Comment>>

Taiwanese are indeed incredibly prejudiced towards Mainlanders, in a way which even their understandable fear of the PRC can't justify. It is true that most Chinese people are a bit "rustic" (although there are circles in which spitting on the ground or letting your children go to the toilet on the street ... Full Comment>>

kids in school are almost never interested in what they have to learn anywhere. In Italy where I grew up, all my classmates in high school would be just as unenthusiastic about english as about all the other subjects. That's just what teenagers are like. It's absurd to claim Chinese people are not enthusiastic about ... Full Comment>>

oh yes people in Christian countries all unconditionally love everyone, don't they? Please. Full Comment>>

What's wrong with eating dogs in principle? If you can eat a pig or a cow (which are just as intelligent), then why not a dog? As long as it's killed humanely. Full Comment>>

What about Marx? Does he still count for anything? Or do they think he was Chinese？ Full Comment>>

The point about the different romanization systems is invalid, because at least in the PRC the pinyin system is universally used by everyone. Full Comment>>

It is not an excuse, it is a reasonable point that China is a developing country. The difficulties you describe are to do with the lack of skill of a lot of Chinese workers, and maybe to the bureaucracy, but certainly not to an unwillingness to work hard. Nobody who has seriously got to know the Chinese would ever ... Full Comment>>

I am not a Chinese, and I was educated in the West. I never said that working hard is all that matters, just that the Chinese do work hard. Working smartly matters of course, but I guess working hard matters too, since if you work smartly one hour a day you won't get as much done as someone who works un-smartly for ... Full Comment>>

You are talking only about the richest Chinese, not about most of them. What about the children of the Ayi? And anyway those teenagers don't work because they are too busy preparing for their high school exams. Full Comment>>

You have no idea what you are talking about. Most Chinese people lead much tougher lives than most Australians could bear. Handouts from mummy and daddy? If anything in China it is young people who have the pressure of knowing that one day they will have to support their parents, since pensions don't exist. And the ... Full Comment>>

Oh please. We really need an anti-abortion and anti birth control movement in China, which already has far too many people as it is. That and idiots campaigning against the theory of evolution being taught in schools. That will really make China great. Full Comment>>

The problem with the author of this article, and many of the commenters, is that your only points of reference are China and the US (or Canada, or the UK, or somewhere similar). When it comes to cheating in schools, the ethos in Italy where I grew up is exactly the same as in China. Cheating in schools is basically ... Full Comment>>

I just want to say that I think there is some logic to saying that China is the longest continuous civilization. The idea of China as a country with a distinct identity has been around for millenniums. Mesopotamia may have had civilization first, but the country called Iraq is a recent invention. There was no such ... Full Comment>>

all those little "kings and queens" you mention have to work incredibly hard at school and then later at work. It is a myth that they are spoiled. Full Comment>>

Oh quit your narrow minded American nationalism. Yes Americans come from all over the place, except for the Natives who were exterminated. And then there's the blacks who were brought there as slaves and only acquired full civil rights in the sixties. And the elite of the USA has always been Anglo-Saxon, and other ... Full Comment>>

well yes, but prices in China are much lower than in Europe, unless you insist on only eating in Western style restaurants and taking taxis. Full Comment>>

It seems like your idea of making foreigners feel included is to speak to them in English and put up English signs. In actual fact, when Chinese people insist on speaking to me in English even though I address them in Chinese, that makes me feel very un-included. Full Comment>>