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Q: Biggest differences between city people and village people in China?
I've only lived in top-tier cities. I've encountered migrant workers, and they seem completely different than the city girls I work with.
The village people couldn't stop the music
So they all are now in the Navy
Except the mocho men
They all live at the YMCA in Shanghai
Sorry guys
This was even bad by my standards
diverdude1:
haha,,, I kinda liked it. been about a million years since that song crossed my mind. I find myself doing the little dance now, u know, where u make YMCA sign with your arms ~ lol bringing back some memories ...
philbravery:
It is sad that I know this much detail about village people songs
Stiggs:
Oh god, now that song is in my head! Thanks a lot Phil, now I need to spend a day drinking to numb the mind enough to drive it out. It's also sad that I get the references...
City folks stare at their phones, village folks stare at foreigners.
Young dudes from the city are effeminate, in villages they are more rough.
Young girls in the city are very "open", in villages more traditional.
The youth are a lot more Westernized in the cities.
People have more money and more disposable income in the city.
Villagers are more down to earth, they don't have dreams of grandeur.
Feel free to complete this list.
well, you know how weird chinese people are in the city,,, multiply by 10 for country-bumpkins.
three quick examples-
* you think city folk can be loud,,,, lol. I have been around country guys and it's best described as shouting. (normal conversation tone for them)
** u ever seen granny chewing/spitting tobacco? it's a trip!
*** I have been walking in nowheresville, Henan late at night and drunk nong fellas laugh when see me (I'm a remarkably ordinary looking german/english heritage guy) and the only way I can (not perjoratively) characterize the laugh is as a monkey hooting. Totally flipped me out. they were in monkey-crouch position at the time! total flip-out in my mind.
Village people will stare foreigners continuously and city people will stare one or two times at foreigners
City folk don't have the same highly developed skill of being able to have a mouth full of rice, cigarette hanging off the edge of their lips and still manage to shout "foooooyuan" at 20 decibels.
RandomGuy:
This: http://beijingcream.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1291.jpg
You most likely do not work with "city people".
You most probably work with migrants as well, only those are the ones who could grasp the concept of disguising as city people.
Actual city people, meaning the real locals in any given top tier city, they usually live like villagers. Villagers who have seen high risers popping up around their village for some reason.
Go ahead and ask around. Here's what you're going to get:
"Where are you from"
"I graduated in [Okay city]"
"No I mean where are you from, where were you born and raised"
"In [semi-shitty province]"
"Oh really? Where in Semi-shitty province?"
"Oh, huh.. Well do you know [Meh provincial city]?"
"Is that where you are from?"
"Kind of"
"Kind of?"
Here, your village.
I live and work in Tianjin, a 2nd tier city with aspirations to be a 1st tier city. I spent time in small cities, small towns and weird little villages. The small cities seem to have the most civilised people in them. They are more likely to treat you as a human and obey the laws of the land. Small towns are a bit like the cities except you are more likely to be treated as if you were some visiting alien. The people usually go around doing whatever they like with little regard to anyone else. The little villages are like another world. People seem to be clueless about anything. They seem to all be sleep walking or something. When you get people alone they seen to know what's happening though, just when they are outside they go all weird. Tianjin is somewhere between the town and village stage. It has the nickname China's biggest village. My experience is all from Northern China though, can't say what it is like anywhere else.
The village people couldn't stop the music
So they all are now in the Navy
Except the mocho men
They all live at the YMCA in Shanghai
Sorry guys
This was even bad by my standards
diverdude1:
haha,,, I kinda liked it. been about a million years since that song crossed my mind. I find myself doing the little dance now, u know, where u make YMCA sign with your arms ~ lol bringing back some memories ...
philbravery:
It is sad that I know this much detail about village people songs
Stiggs:
Oh god, now that song is in my head! Thanks a lot Phil, now I need to spend a day drinking to numb the mind enough to drive it out. It's also sad that I get the references...
A villager who stays in the village
A villager who stays in the city (Beijing) 
. village people drink or sell beer that is 2.6 % abv meaning a person needs to drink 350 bottles to be in any danger of being arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct.
in the city they import unheard of German beers and sell them for 10 RMB a can in the shops.
Im trying to imagine combining the movie "city slickers" with the band "village people". What a cast of characters that would make. Anyone care to attempt a brief plot to this film? [be sure to include about billy crystal, curly, etc.]
