Chinese Most Admirable Traits #1-4

ZhonghuaRising ^ | June 8, 2006 | Dr. Bill Belew

[G. Stolyarov II]

The Committee of 100 survey that I have mentioned here in the past asked the question of American opinion leaders -

Americans were asked -

What are the most admirable traits of the Chinese and their culture? Here are numbers four through one.

4. Commitment to Education - 13%. The Chinese are indeed diligent students. The only people I know who study harder than the Chinese are their children. Oh!, they are Chinese, too, I suppose.

3. One in six - the History - 16%. China has a looong history, and everything that was discovered, created, or found was done there first - 8-)

2. A full one-fourth of Americans admire China's Family Values most - 25%. Admiration might give way to envy. The Chinese place such a huge value on the family, especially the parent-child-parent relationship. I love to watch my wife interact with her parents.

And the number one most admired trait of the Chinese by Americans -

1. More than one-third (35%) admire the Work Ethic of the Chinese - the Chinese do work hard, my wife works hard. But then nearly everyone works harder than most Americans... but let that not take anything away from how hard the Chinese work.

Is their economy growing great guns? It is not doing so by luck. It is because they have their hands to the plows.

What do you think?

What do you admire most about the Chinese?

[G. Stolyarov II]

The Chinese work ethic certainly deserves to be on top of the list; every Chinese person I have encountered had strong aspirations to do well for himself - and to invest the time and effort needed to accomplish this. Unlike the American popular culture - which urges people to "just relax, man!" - the entirety of the Chinese culture pressures individuals to continue to work and exert themselves, and take pride in the fact. Hard work is the natural, proper, dignified state of man. See Dr. Belew’s blog at ZhonghuaRising

[sittnick]

The underground persecuted Chinese Catholics who risk and endure physical beatings and severe financial penalties to practice their Faith, especially the Bishops and priests who heroically resist the state-controlled "Patriotic" Catholic Association.

I am also impressed with the many who resist the state-imposed one child policy despite incredidibly severe penalties that can extend to other family members and even neighbors and co-workers.

[pissant]

What is your obsession with chinese?

[rovenstinez]

Mao would be proud.

[jebeier]

I think the one-child policy and the sex-selective abortions are what I admire most...

[jebeier]

Better put a < /sarc> tag on that one. One can never be too careful on FR with unlabeled sarcasm!

[eleni121]

...the Chinese do work hard, my wife works hard. But then nearly everyone works harder than most Americans...
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Americans work smart and more productively than any other people in the history of humanity notwithstanding the insufferible legislation that undermines that. Your generalizations about work must take into account productivity.

As for the other generalizations - they apply to probably every ethnic group in the world. And family values? Killing and abandoning millions of you progeny do not make for "family values."

[piceapungens]

I admire their rapacious environmental policies that allow things like benzene to be dumped into rivers. A close second would be their land policies that allow a farmers land to be seized without due process of any kind.

[Fee]

Unfortunately every Asian nation that modernized in the 1970's did the same. You should read about the quality of water and air in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan of that time period. Love Canal would be a picnic. I think the biggest weakness of the Chinese is their emphasis on measuring success based on materialism. Because of that their society and institutions breakdown because of the desire to want more and more (corruption, nepotism, etc). Look what killed the dynasties, the Nationalist and now in the process of killing the capitalist Communists - corruption.

[jebeier]

The selling of body parts harvested from live political prisoners is pretty cool, too. It has really driven down the cost of kidneys throughout the Pacific Rim...

[Wombat101]

Not a matter of admiration, just an observation...

I do find it funny that an entire nation, which turmpets it's modernity and technological advancement on a daily basis, still eats with wooden sticks.

[Carry_Okie]

But then nearly everyone works harder than most Americans...

This is demonstrably untrue. Europeons, and especially the French, are total loafers by comparison.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Little early to be drinking so heavily and puffing on that crack pipe, isn't it? Maybe you should take another nap...

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I do find it funny that an entire nation, which turmpets it's modernity and technological advancement on a daily basis, still eats with wooden sticks.

I agree. Surely by now a progressive society would have evolved to plastic sticks.

[misterrob]

Asian chicks are kinda hot....

[pissant]

LOL. I prefer the Japanese variety.

[Wombat101]

"I agree. Surely by now a progressive society would have evolved to plastic sticks"

Or at least discovered the virtues of the spoon and fork....

[exdem2000]

Their food.

[andy58-in-nh]

I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They only come up to your knees,
Yet they're always friendly, and they're ready to please.

I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
There's nine hundred million of them in the world today.
You'd better learn to like them; that's what I say.

I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They come from a long way overseas,
But they're cute and they're cuddly, and they're ready to please.

I like Chinese food.
The waiters never are rude.
Think of the many things they've done to impress.
There's Maoism, Taoism, I Ching, and Chess...

[pissant]

A cult classic. LOL