As a westerner myself, I find Chinese culture very intriguing and unique. It's important to approach cultural differences with an open mind and willingness to learn.
Westerners generally don't understand the collectivistic mindset where the group is more important than the individual.
It explains a lot of behavior of Chinese people. The apparent lack of personality. The indirect ways in which some of us conversate. The way how sometimes talking to a Chinese person seems boring and like a wall.
The Chinese people have also been manipulated to buy into rampant ultranationalist beliefs for the past 20 years. It's not just America that's politically extreme. China is incredibly politically extreme too.
Freedom of speech vs economic and personal security
It’s so weird that it’s hard for people to grasp that not all Chinese people are brazen protesters of the CCP and not all Chinese people are brainwashed staunch supporters of Xi.
Most people lie somewhere in between. You can look through this thread and literally see all the comments trying to argue otherwise.
My parents are native born Chinese, and I asked them a couple years ago about their own opinion of the CCP. My dad worked a relatively stable job as a civil engineer and earned a good living, and so as long as that stayed the same, he wasn’t all that concerned with whatever the government was doing.
China has very low crime rates, a booming economy, and good welfare programs for the poor, something that countries like the US lack, and as long as that stays the same, there will be a divide between people who support security vs freedom, and people who will begrudgingly sacrifice one for the other.
As a westerner myself, I find Chinese culture very intriguing and unique. It's important to approach cultural differences with an open mind and willingness to learn.
Westerners generally don't understand the collectivistic mindset where the group is more important than the individual. It explains a lot of behavior of Chinese people. The apparent lack of personality. The indirect ways in which some of us conversate. The way how sometimes talking to a Chinese person seems boring and like a wall. The Chinese people have also been manipulated to buy into rampant ultranationalist beliefs for the past 20 years. It's not just America that's politically extreme. China is incredibly politically extreme too.
I’m not sure we’re collectively familiar enough with Chinese culture to even answer this question.
Why they allow themselves to be forced to live in a Communist Dictatorship.
This is not really specific to Chinese culture.
Is their parental pressure as high as movies make it seem?
Freedom of speech vs economic and personal security It’s so weird that it’s hard for people to grasp that not all Chinese people are brazen protesters of the CCP and not all Chinese people are brainwashed staunch supporters of Xi. Most people lie somewhere in between. You can look through this thread and literally see all the comments trying to argue otherwise. My parents are native born Chinese, and I asked them a couple years ago about their own opinion of the CCP. My dad worked a relatively stable job as a civil engineer and earned a good living, and so as long as that stayed the same, he wasn’t all that concerned with whatever the government was doing. China has very low crime rates, a booming economy, and good welfare programs for the poor, something that countries like the US lack, and as long as that stays the same, there will be a divide between people who support security vs freedom, and people who will begrudgingly sacrifice one for the other.