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Q: How do Chinese view their own money?
You know how back home a dollar is a dollar? I actually get annoyed if I lose one. But here a yuan is irritating to have cause it's worth so little.
Do you think the Chinese view on yuan the way we view one dollar?
12 years 28 weeks ago in Money & Banking - China
Adollar is a Dollar , A kuai is A kuai, a Mark is a Mark, Ruble is a ruble etc etc,
Don't you know that it's all RELATIVE, generally anyway.
Next time you wanna throw away a kuai , put it away for safe keeping i will come collect in a year.
Exactly, it is relative. So how do they view it?
Straw_ManNz:
In the same light as you would view your US 1 dollar, it is not a nuisance to them, because it holds it's value in their eyes. Money is only worth what the next person thinks that it is worth.
You do know that for many chinese, one yuan IS important. For us Westerners, we can take the attitude that "money isnt everything" but that does not mean we should not respect it, especially with so much poverty everywhere.
Find one yuan irritating? Give it to a beggar or to a temple/church of your choice!
give your 1 yuan to the beggers if you find it iritating or save them up and pay a meal with all the change,
Are you guys trying to tell me that if you have a crapload of one kuai notes you're not annoyed such a small denomination takes up so much space?
GuilinRaf:
If I had a "crapload" of one kuai notes not only am I not annoyed I am also thankful. Very few people all over the world have that.
it also make s you wallet look richer than you are, yer its anoying having all the notes as you need a lot to pay for the smallest of things, i take them out and store it or use to gamle at majong as well.
DaBen:
money clip... i actually use the paper clip from the last hotel I stayed at.
I have spend a good five mins haggling back in forth with various street vendors over a single rmb. So yeah they care a lot about a single yuan. Hell I've invested enough time over saving one yuan that I guess I could claim that I care about it as well.
i save up all my coins, where I am currently living (Zhejiang) they usually use coins for less than 5yuan....not sure what I will do with all the coins when I run out of space....
