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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: I find that most Chinese students are very shy,is it very common in China?
Is it because they spend a lot time studying ,so,they are socially awkward?
10 years 42 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
Are you shy? Don't think it has much to do with studying or lack of social skills.
If you are shy, I can recommend Dale Carnegie's course on How To Win Friends and Influence People.
You're Chinese, right?
JaneLeee:
yeah,I'm a Chinese,and I saw many students around me are very shy and not so active to join in some activities,maybe I'm also one of them.I guess we lack some social experiece .When you are in a situation that you never met before ,you will probably be afraid or don't know what to do.So,we need to experience more things in our daily life ,don't limit ourselves in dormitory or library.Shyness is not a good thing when students enter the society....
happywanderer:
Actually I think the time spent studying is a factor. Particularly in formative years when people really start to develop their personality - those can be years spent learning by rote or playing with others (which is also a form of learning).
Depends on where you are, and who your teaching...
If your from one of the big cities, and you're teaching older students, then you will find a variety of personalities.
If you're out in the sticks, then yeah, they've probably never seen a foreigner before, and don't know how to deal with it.
I'd personally recommend "How to lose friends and infuriate people"... much more useful! All about living your own life, and not letting time wasters take it over.
The kids in my sister in-laws class are ok now after about 5 years of knowing me
and it rubs off on the new students that have not met me before
Up here in the North they rarely get to see a foreigner let alone talk to one
When I talk to them individually I try to come down to their eye level so as not to seam like I am standing over them
great bunch of kids
their shyness also comes from being taught not to see foreigners as regular people. (this will include some racist ideas like blacks are violent etc.)
some will feel guilty about how they been taught to see foreigners.
Many are indeed shy.
Others use "shyness" as an excuse to not study or participate.
As to studying, they do study very hard for the gaokao. Once in university, that is no longer the case.
It's similar as in Japan or other Asian countries.
There are some outgoing and social ppl but not most of them for sure.
Give me a dislike if you really got to know many Asians.
I think the main problem is not being shy, its the fear of losing FACE by making a mistake or doing something wrong, and as stated above the pure fear of being in the same room as round eye foreign devil !!!
i dont think thier as quite as shy as u think having 1.4 billion people i dont think their shy
it is not really being shy, but having the confidence to do what they need to do.
I teach, primary and middle school , and see that i actually have 2 students that are shy.
the rest have no confidence in what they are doing. most are saying it softly thinking they are doing it wrong , but are saying it correctly.
You just have to encourage and build them up.