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Q: I mean no disrespect but
But what is Chinese Culture,apart from dragon boats and moon cakes and Chinese new year,what is Chinese Culture?
when I was in Japan I saw more Japanese culture in 6 months,than I have in 15 years of being here in China.
I mean no disrespect to anyone here.
Chinese culture is Dragon boats, Moon cakes, and Chinese New Year.
Add to that, firecrackers, strange food, TCM, bus boarding fights, elevator etiquette, guangxi, incredibly dim light bulbs, stupid driving, refrigerators switched off in winter, out of date beer, out of date food, gutter oil, delayed internal flights, public parades the public are banned from, people throwing rubbish from their 10th floor window, spitting, pissing in the street, shitting in the street, motorbike taxis, rip off taxis, eggs covered in bird poo, toilets that smell of poo, busses that smell of poo, USB cables that don't work, door locks that don't work, showers that don't work, hotels without towels, hotels without beer, towns without hotels, and corruption on every avenue.
Compared to Scotland, that is a pretty rich culture. All we have is Kilts and whisky
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And haggis. I must admit, I miss my haggis.
I hate mooncake.
rasklnik:
Literature
Bobbie Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson
Economists
Adam Smith
Medicine
Alexander Fleming
Fictional Characters
James Bond
Actors
Sean Connery,
Music
Bag Pipes, Celtic Music (shared with Ireland)
Sport
Golf
China
Murder our writers, ban our artists, and strangle our scientists...5000 years of history and one old dude on all the money...
ScotsAlan:
Yup rasnick. For such a small country, Scotlands contribution to the modern world has been massive. I think the whisky gives us inspiration
andyinshenyang:
You're missing Rab C. Nesbitt and Taggart from the list!
ScotsAlan:
My mums name was Nessie. Its the Scots version of an an old name not heard often now. We named our daughter after her. So in Scotland, she would be called Nessie. Anyway, sorry about the golf. Worst ever idea from Scotland.
Chinese culture is Dragon boats, Moon cakes, and Chinese New Year.
Add to that, firecrackers, strange food, TCM, bus boarding fights, elevator etiquette, guangxi, incredibly dim light bulbs, stupid driving, refrigerators switched off in winter, out of date beer, out of date food, gutter oil, delayed internal flights, public parades the public are banned from, people throwing rubbish from their 10th floor window, spitting, pissing in the street, shitting in the street, motorbike taxis, rip off taxis, eggs covered in bird poo, toilets that smell of poo, busses that smell of poo, USB cables that don't work, door locks that don't work, showers that don't work, hotels without towels, hotels without beer, towns without hotels, and corruption on every avenue.
Compared to Scotland, that is a pretty rich culture. All we have is Kilts and whisky.
And haggis. I must admit, I miss my haggis.
I hate mooncake.
rasklnik:
Literature
Bobbie Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson
Economists
Adam Smith
Medicine
Alexander Fleming
Fictional Characters
James Bond
Actors
Sean Connery,
Music
Bag Pipes, Celtic Music (shared with Ireland)
Sport
Golf
China
Murder our writers, ban our artists, and strangle our scientists...5000 years of history and one old dude on all the money...
ScotsAlan:
Yup rasnick. For such a small country, Scotlands contribution to the modern world has been massive. I think the whisky gives us inspiration
andyinshenyang:
You're missing Rab C. Nesbitt and Taggart from the list!
ScotsAlan:
My mums name was Nessie. Its the Scots version of an an old name not heard often now. We named our daughter after her. So in Scotland, she would be called Nessie. Anyway, sorry about the golf. Worst ever idea from Scotland.
U forgot the "Canis Festivalis". You know, the festival where you take your pet dog, have it butchered, and then they BBQ it on up for around 15 RMB. Yummy Fido !!!
CHinese culture was illegal off and on for about 50 years...so welcome to a bad imitation of the NEP.
You are just a foreigner and can't understand the deep Chinese culture, which is too complex for your foreign brain.
Chinese culture was destroyed by the ccp. 5000 years of history is a farce when most mainlanders don't know much about their country pre Deng Xiao Ping. Why is there no culture? People were starving not long ago and only appreciate material superficial wealth. China offers remarkably little in terms of art, theater, museums, historical preservation, community groups and such.
I wonder how much of the horrible behavior we see today - for example old people who try to extort people who help them after they fall down, the willingness to sell fake or adulterated products ( like melamine in the milk) regardless of who it kills or hurts, the crass materialism etc - is a recent cultural trait or if it was always there.
ScotsAlan:
I think its always been there Stiggs. Ever read about the last emperor or see the movie? Instant death sentence for almost anything. The lords using the peasants as belongings. Must have been a bad place to live.
A desolute wasteland of zombies and nothingness... Thank you so effing bleeping much.
In response to this "desolate wasteland....etc.."
I have found a Chinese family, lowlife nobodies, that have managed to educate themselves to the world. They have fantastic family values. They have no money. They appreciate progress, and understand that not everybody is, or will be, rich.
This is not just my family, it is also many, many, many of their friends, it s a whole lot of this progressive "small" town.
the world does not revolve around Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu, etc. etc.
I happen to believe that my little town is the future of China and it is a BRIGHT future.
i just rolled into Wuhan, and guess what... It looks just like all the other effn places that i have seen in China. same-same everywhere you go. china is "same-same culture".
If you want Chinese culture then go to Taiwan.
RobRocks:
September 21st 1999 I survived the big earthquake. in Taiwan
China has many interesting events; such as the dog eating festival. I bet you can't get that back at home!
China has many interesting events; such as the dog eating festival. I bet you can't get that back at home!
My boss told me, she spends all of her free time learning about Chinese culture, her office have some cool stuff.. calligraphy equipment, handwritten strolls and a lot of stuff that I don't recognize. So there must be more than what meets the eye.
I think the Chinese folks on this forum instead of getting angry should share some of the knowledge. It'll be cool to learn few things in English rather than waiting to be fluent in Chinese and then probably find out about them.
