GOOD QUESTION!

i think , if you want to change something , you should change the people, if you want to change the people, then you should change their MIND/BRAID first!!!

as for your question, i guess a part of Chinese people really have intelligent views, but still, most of our Chinese are not that fast changing their original mind.

to answer your question, we should see the general frame of China. because china is such a big country with this huge population. everybody just sees his points in a very narrow way. we should  see the number proof / research result , then can say, whether Chinese people's mentality truly changed or not!

It will take much longer for China to open up. It will take several generations to see a big difference. You can see the beginning of it in the youngest generation.

China has changed a lot during the past 30 years, materially and socially, with the one-child policy for example, and more foreigners coming and living in China, more Chinese travelling abroad and seeing for themselves how things are outside the country.   But it is difficult to measure how much change has occurred in the chinese mentality, they are seeing things differently now, and have had to adapt to all these in a rather short period of time.

I remember how things were in the mid-80s, the chinese were so deprieved of everything than when we came in to visit and asked them ; what do you want us to bring to you, they just did not know how to reply as they lacked of almost everything.

End of 80s they wanted basically to have a color TV, washing machine, fridge in every household.

Beg 90s, they wanted to have a motorbike for freedom of movement in each household.

Mid 90s they wanted nothing from us, they had everything, they only wanted to know how imported red wine and champagne tasted.

Now they take nothing from us, but pile us with gifts everytime they can and we visit.

Has the chinese mentality changed ? I think that it must have, in one way or another.

I think some Chinese minds are changing and I I agree with Jnusb when she says it will take several generations. I speak to a lot of Chinese people who are genuinely curious and interested about how life is outside of China and at the same time I meet many people who are just plain ignorant and do not wish to open their minds to anything that did not originate at least several centuries ago in China. So many things have to change here and it will take time to filter through to the majority. The way to do business without ripping everyone off, the education system needs to encourage enquiring minds rather than fostering blind obedience, medicine need to be bought up to international standards in a lot of areas, learning to treat other people with respect.

the seeds are there we just need to nurture them and wait for the tree, because like everything else here it is going to be a slow process.

i do not know about that cause i can not read the people mentality or read minds...this question might be not that subjective or even theoretical total right

They will only see true change when they have a black president. I know one who maybe looking for another country to fuc-up soon.

-No

-1st the deep seated hypocrisy of their culture is thousands of years of entrenchment

-2nd the government spends a fortune on domestic soft-culture programs to keep people in line. Do your students have mandatory Maoist thought class? Yes. Do Americans have a "republican" or "democrat" thought class? No. Remember in America we tell people what happened, we may leave out facts, but one is not told what to think

-3rd the Chinese are a materialistic people. As long as they have a rising standard of living, the majority will consider those who look for a spiritual element to be "strange"

-4th the People's Armed Police has increased their budget every year since 1989. Wonder why?

-5th the majority of Chinese believe those who defect, move abroad, or marry foreigners, are in some ways, traitors to the great Han race

-6th the racism and xenophobia of the Chinese people are as bad as ever. Recently African politicians have begun running on "Anti-Chinese" platforms. A hilarious thing when you consider China tried to have the leadership of the third world anti-colonial struggle under Marxist ideology. As China become more open, it will simply become more ugly.

-7th the fact that the Chinese government is incapable of being criticizes and can't admit failure, nor learn from it's mistakes means that it will become more and more aggressive in limiting intellectual life in China.

-8th the fact that young Chinese are keenly interested in American pop culture, but are uninterested in western culture, liberty or anything of real meaning means they are no threat to the status quo.

I agree with many of the comments here.  I have lived and worked in China now for 4 years.  While the younger generation Chinese are interested in the pop culture (music, films, fashion, etc.), they know very little else about western culture.  The older generation know virtually nothing.

The Chinese mentaliy is linked to their culture and traditions. These two things control the thinking and mentality of the Chinese people.  Until they are willing to let go of some of the outdated cultural and traditional practices, there can't be a change in mentality.  It will be up to the younger generation to make those changes.

No.  Also, necropost.