Having an "I Hate Chinese People Day"

Definition of Chinese person (Anyone who is a citizen of China and has parents and grandparents that are citizens of China.) By no means am I saying Asians in generally.

Even though I have lived and worked in China for 4 years, I have a Chinese wife and a half Chinese baby. I still have "I hate Chinese people" days. These happen 2 or 3 times a month actually so they are not rare occurrences. Some of this can be blamed on my impatient temper but most of it is caused by the Chinese people themselves. Their attitude on life and how you treat others. I do not know what the Chinese where like before the revolution but I do know what they are like now. I have lived in 3 Chinese cites, two in the interior of China and have visited 7 different provinces. I have been to the biggest cites and the smallest villages. I have seen the richest people and the poorest. I have seen students, businessmen, farmers, politicians, mayors and governors. There seems to be one thread that connects them all. This thread is the complete disregard for anyone else except their friends and family.

In Batangas Province, Philippines . . .

The difference between Filipino-run business and Chinese-run business.....

I enter a Filipino-run hardware store and tell the sales-person, “I am looking for a copper lightning rod.” Answer? “Out of stock.” The sales-person sits there and just stares at me until I just leave the store.

So I enter a Chinese-run hardware store and tell the sales-person, “I am looking for a copper lightning rod.” Answer? “How many do you need? I say, “Well, I was only hoping to get one, but I can actually use two.” Sales-person: “We don’t have any here, but if you can wait five minutes, we’ll have them for you.” Sure enough, one of their runners returns pretty quick with two copper lightning rods.

That was an actual occurance.

One other time, I went to a Filipino-run hardware store, and told the sales people that we have a camp ground and need twenty Petro-Max Lanterns. Answer: “Out of Stock.”

I go to THE TIMES BAZZAR (Lipa City, Batangas), operated by “Peter,” a Chinese businessman. Peter had only two Petro-Max Lanterns. But Peter asks, “When do you need all twenty?” “By Monday, four days away,” I answer. Peter promised to have them the following afternoon from their warehouse in Manila.

By that same afternoon, however, one of Peter’s runners came looking for me. So, within 4 hours of my initial order, Peter had gathered up all twenty brand-new Petro-Max Lanterns. And he gave me a very nice discount for the volume sale.

This is another actual occurance.

These are not simply isolated events. There is a real difference in the attitude between Chinese and filipino business people. Chinese will pay attention to the customers.

It’s actually true. I’m generally a very accepting person, and I’ve lived in different parts of the world because my father is a diplomat. But in every country, Chinese people ALWAYS have come off as selfish individuals who only seek their own survival and only do things “for others” if there is a beneficial account for themselves. You’ve written that they have disregard for everyone besides their family and friends? No, make that JUST family, because I’m known a lot of Chinese people in my life and they DO NOT care for others unless they carry their own blood. I’ve had too many friends that had Chinese best friends for some reason, and even when the friend needed a favour from that Chinese person, the Chinese person refused, saying, and I quote, “Oh, well im not interested in that, so I don’t think I will go” when the person was asking for a FAVOUR...NOT IF HE/SHE WANTED TO!
I can’t tolerate this absurd selfishness that Chinese people have in their blood, it disgusts me.
I understand that it may be their “custom” but nevertheless, its something they should fix when they’re immigrating into another country.

WOW, you replied to a post I did 2 years ago. Still holds true though. Drives me crazy with my wife. I will say something like “Hey, lets go do this for this person or that person.” and she will say verbatum “I dont know them I dont care to do it.” She is getting much better though. She has lived in the U.S. for almost 3 years now and has adapted a lot. It is intersting to see how she developes her new stereotypes for diffrent groups who live in the U.S. and how those stereotypes are exactly the stereotypes we have developed over there years.

Thanks for the post.

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