While I grew up watching lot of kungfu movies, I had the idea that The Chinese would be people in traditional Chinese clothes with wooden houses and wooden restaurants with people eating with chopsticks and the famous soupbowls much like the perception that Indians live in houses made of thached roof.
My visit to China was a marked surprise, The place I landed first was Shenzhen and it was unbelivable to see the urbanness of the city.
Skyscrapers, flyovers, manicured gardens, swanky hotels cars etc etc..it was really mind boggling.
The food chain such as Pizza Hut, mcdonalds, starbucks were dotted everywhere and beleive it or not they were always full!
When it comes to fashion , the chinese have left the west behind, the brands and the way they dress up was really very good.
I was fortunate to visit a few night clubs in my visit, they were the exact opposite of what I had seen in movies..beers were flowing everywhere and the music was just awesome.
My only complaint was that I couldnt communicate with peopl there as hardly anyone knew anything besides Chinese language, so I had difficulties in even searching for basic things like water!
The above visit changed my perception of China forever and since then I have visited China several times and it keeps getting better!
Cheers!
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Chinese are all about appearances. They make a concerted effort to look modern, and you bought it hook, line and sinker. The women wear sky-high miniskirt with no awareness or shame. Hospitals and education is a big farce. Classism and social stratification is rife. The 'economy' supports humongous empty restaurants, shops and hotels full of entitled, self-important staff, but no satisfied customers. All so that government families can gain 'face' with their businesses. Chinese scoff at gratitude and consideration (never say please, thank you or sorry except when speaking English, which is a 'fake' language to them), because those are necessities for beggars to them. Food safety, traffic safety, hygiene, rule of law, it's all a mess. But if all the glitter and glamour makes you feel happy, China is the place for you!
Jun 29, 2014 11:24 Report Abuse
I am sorry about your experiences in China, you probably have had very bad company with you or you havent been to the right places , next time whenever you plan to visit let me know I will let u know where you should be going...cheers!
Jul 07, 2014 14:55 Report Abuse
Ok Mr/Ms. I havent been to Seoul or Tokyo alright, but for your kind information China has overtaken USA as the highest spender in luxury goods and brands, and if that isnt an example for you then let me give this another piece of data..China is one of the few countries where all the Fortune 500 brands exist, Japan and Korea are developed countries and it is not fair to compare apples with oranges!!!
Jul 07, 2014 14:49 Report Abuse
The luxury goods are an indicator of corruption, which Chinese media itself confirms. You're ignoring hospital and school quality, while cherrypicking fortune500 and luxury consumption factoids. Either you're a paid mouthpiece, or dismally shallow.
Jul 07, 2014 17:33 Report Abuse
wow Mr.Deep personified, looking at your comments I get the idea that you are an absolute pessimist person who looks at the flaws all the time, and if China is really that bad then why stay there??? I wrote what I saw, I really dont care what you feel about it!
Jul 07, 2014 19:57 Report Abuse
Thank you prettychen...I did learn chinese after that for 6 month. Wo neng shuo zhongwen yidianr, but I can of course learn more..thank you for the offer!
Jun 16, 2014 17:00 Report Abuse
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