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Q: Why do chinese people laugh so much?
Hello my name is Ernesto I am a Spanish guy living in China, I am sorry about my english.
My company in Spain has offered me a job here for some years so I have come with my family. My chinese is not very well but the other day going back home I just saw some workers in a construction and I asked the manager who was in the sidewalk why the workers don,t use ropes, and he looked at me and start laughing. I think it is not fun at all!!!!, if the workers fall down they can die. It happens to me many times. The other day also in the highway with two chinese guys, we saw a man fallen down from a motorbike he was bleeding, and no one was stopping, I told my workmate to stop but they just laugh.
It looks like that Chinese love laughing, I am starting to hate this behaviour, lack of ethic.
living and loving life is a good thing .................getting up and picking yourself up after a crash is a good thing................ holy shit, I survived/made it............. yippeeeeee....happy ..
.I sent a pic home of a guy on the twentieth floor moving a banner around, totally freaked me out, I was shaking when I took the pic, but he was like a flipping mountain goat, no problem.
I think we should not judge these folks............. I think, if somebody in Canada. USA, Australia or Spain gets a little injury, they look to the government or if they can afford it, a lawyer to claim for their injury ............... In China, they shake it off and get back to work, and I totally respect them for that .......... and laughing is a good thing
Welcome Ernesto! I'm a BIG fan of your country's national futbol team!!! 
The Spanish Armada!! ^^ A Chinese gal that I used to work with mentioned that the Chinese laugh when uncomfortable. I would agree in part with that. (Certainly not the only reason.)
Mr. Sports
They are laughing because they are nervous. You should try to smile more and not be so serious.
Scandinavian:
Wouldn't it be the person laughing who should try to be serious. No matter what the topic, if it is a serious topic to the person you are talking to, laughing is disrespectful.
There are no safety issues, so many people, it doesn't matter if they loose a few. If you see someone go splat, it doesn't matter unless a Japanese caused it.
crimochina:
pogger you need to learn how to address your elders correctly ! 
They want to show their ugly teeth?!!!...........They want to act funny which is not a normal thing in their personalities?!!!!!....................Drunk a bit more than a glass of beer?!!!!!..................You pick
They want to show their ugly teeth?!!!...........They want to act funny which is not a normal thing in their personalities?!!!!!....................Drunk a bit more than a glass of beer?!!!!!..................You pick
Maybe it's just part of their conditioned lifestyle. Like a student in school that tries hard to answer a question but the teacher just laughs and humiliates them. Like poorly skilled doctors who needlessly inflict pain on their patients in the name of "treatment" and then laugh at the anguish. Like the police here that laugh at the victims of petty crime. And then the ultimate annoyance - the officials in banks and institutions that get great amusement out of customers getting angry at mistakes that they, the bank or institution have made themselves.
I am sure that humiliation is a part and parcel of the Chinese psyche.
:
I assume you are a Chinese and if so, it couldn't better come out such approach but from a Chinese. Anyway your approach it is so acute that I enjoyed it it.Yes, I believe humiliation is part of the Chinese psyche.
Espero que aprendas lo antes posible com se llevan las cosas por China, porque de lo contrario, sera totalmente dificl adaptarte. A mi me ocure a diario las caracajadas y los dientes largos que se me ponen de cara cuando me tropiezo con mal educados e ignorantes. Pero, no todos son asi, pese a que los que mencionas son la mayoria. Intento sobrevivir pensando en los pocos educados que hay y me tranquizo. Luego, si se me ocure me poongo a reir con elles de ells desde luego. Es verdad, lo he hecho unas cuantas veces y me ha funcionado. Se quedan contrariados al verme y temen perder cara por lo cual se olvidande reirse de mi.
Because they live in China! Believe me, the longer you live in China, the more you will laugh. It keeps you from going crazy!
they laugh because if they dont they would be crying all the time
Scandinavian:
isn't there something in between laughing and crying ? how do you sleep ?
I always assume it is because I forgot to zip my fly.
