poor sanitation

The pollution, poor food safety, corruption which in turns effects people's health and safety. The fact that there are people everywhere.

I don't like the traffic! Back in Montana, 'Merica, I could drive my car for hours without having to break once. Here, when you drive for an hour, you release the break only once. Quite annoying.

And the crowded KFC! Chinese are proud of their cuisine, yet it's nearly impossible to find an empty table at KFC!

So-So attitude

its so creepy when it comes to board a bus. i really dont get it

it's going to be better.

Just too many people. everywhere.

Tried to go to a park the other day. It took two hours, crammed against smelly people in the bus, stuck in traffic jam. When I got to the park, there were more people than flowers, and it was impossible to find a quiet place anywhere.

There are just too many people.

Having to defend the fact that traditional Chinese medicine works, while most Chinese, that I have had contact with in the last 10 years, are saying that it does not. The general wholesale sellout towards modern thinking....

Edited:
Since I made a blank statement. not a national poll, I will further explain how I come to this conclusion;
I have worked in three Chinese medicine hospitals and taught at three universities of Chinese medicine and have only met 2 students who like it and a handfull of doctors who use it as a mode of primary care..

philwilliams.cn could you tell us how long it took you to poll 98% of 1.3 billion Chinese people and who were your interpreters for the 55 minority languages?

no sidewalks, sanitation, crosswalks not safe. since i have been in china  i have seen 6 people struck and killed not a pretty site.

Pollution and education (at all levels not just school), but I guess if the education was put right the pollution would be dealt with. So it is really down to education, because that affects everything else.

The farmers... end of discussion.

Staring and less-than-equal respect for privacy by locals.

the first thing i would do if i ran this county is send the army out to execute every driver without a trial that blows the damn horn at anything. kill them all, i hope when i die and go to hell, i can get a place next to the chinese busdrivers that blow those damn loud horns right next to me on the sidewalk. i want to beat the hell out of them for at least a 1000 years of eternity and then look for the asshole who invented the cellphone and beat on him for 2000 years. its eternity, what else do i have to do. lol

I hate the chaos..... on bad China Days .

I love the chaos...... on good China days 

My running trend at the moment is:  Zigma GCD minus Zigma BCD is greater than zero. So all is well

In no particular order:

  • weird noise/spitting (most disgusting sub-human behavior I have ever witnessed)

  • blowing of horns 

  • 'speaking' sooooooo loudly

  • staring

  • reckless driving

  • chaotic walking patterns (will not walk to their right as a rule)

  • push on elevator/bus/metro before others alight

  • driving with those bright halogen lights on blinding everyone else

  • obliviousness to all of these things and others by the general populace (ok, that's my #1)

There is ONE think that I hate greatly.  It is being called Loa wai by people who have known me for a few years and they know my name.  My first name is 胡安 hu an.  Almost exactly like the Chinese pronunciation of my name in Spanish. Some Chinese work mates were talking about me in their local language today and I just picked up my stuff and left.

I wonder how they would react if I called them "Chinaman" or "Chinawoman" every time I referred to them. I remember when I read a book called "China men" by Maxine Hong Kingston.  I read that book ten years ago in college and I still remember it.  I read how hateful it was to the Chinese who came to America to be called that.  But now that the shoe is on the other foot it does not really fit anymore.    

For me it is all the pollution! I miss the blue Texas skies, the sunsets, and the stars at night big and bright. I also hate all the noise pollution. Cars honking, fireworks going off in middle of the day, babies screaming next door, constriction upstairs and downstairs. The smells are terrible too! Shit everywhere, garbage everywhere, toxins everywhere! Give me the Colorado mountain air back!

Thats EVERTHING is 'ok' if it involves making a buck

Being considered, treated as, and called, "foreigner". The constant "You're one of them, not one of us, and can never be one of us" (based, mostly, on genetics) mentality that would never be acceptable back home is the worst, as it's the basis of so much of the other negativity. 

Pollution for sure. Almost everything else I can deal with. 

Pretty much most of everything aside from the women. (And that's debatable depending on who you talk to.)   Do we really have to choose?

I am undecided between corruption and filial piety. I think these are the root causes for all things that are wrong in China, fix one and you have a good stab at fixing the other. 

No civil society, just 1.3 billions individuals. The poor attempts at linking them (nationalism, modern rehashed & politically corrected culture) do not work very well. From this, all the bad things come.

Always worrying about being scammed. By landlords, hurt people who blame you if you help them etc.