Different countries have different historical contexts and backgrounds--this is a basic knowledge that people working multinationally should have known ages ago. Understanding other people's points of views and respecting other cultures are the only ways to access your business. You can just bear with it.
Without a doubt, some Americans are very proud of being Americans, and may do and see something different from us which some of us
will then comment them as weird alien, especially traditional Chinese people. Although China has developed a lot in these days, some old cultures and beliefs can never be changed as they have been carried on in generations by generations. Chinese people think they should insist of these habits instead of changing them because these specialise them. But what about changes that will bring better life to people? If they don't even consider about the accessibility of this, they are known as stubborn then.
One of the examples is, according to what a chinese saying that 'being modest and prudent is a virtue', yeah, in theory it should be right, however, Chinese people have acted overly to follow these instructions: In cases when you are actually very proud of yourselves and very happy to compliements given by another person, I will just smile happily and thank them, and if I don't agree I will deny that and say why. Why on earth would you go any further than that? Nevertheless most Chinese will 95%+ keep saying no at once and shaking their heads and hands so hardly--and the other will start thinking 'have I said anything rude or abnormal to him in his culture? I
should apologize.' or struggle to his over reactions or feel sick because you have been so fake.
Some may argue that people don't have the shame to nod my head, this may also make the other feels bad. But, Gosh! It is not a shame to be honest to yourself and to the others, this is a way to show your respect towards him, so why would this make us feel encroached? We have already said that to you, and we are not going to drag you down to any traps!!
Just ease up!
In what senses, I always think the Chinese are following the footages left by other countries stubbornly. Doing exactly what the others like Americans were doing or are doing to try to catch up, or to show up their abilities, I am not saying anything bad about that, but why shouldn't the Chinese government saturate their internal problems before showing up to the others? In Hong Kong, there are still TV programmes asking Hongkongers to donate their money to help to improve the quality of life of kids living in somewhere in China. The programmes show how poorly the families live
and trigger the sympathy of the audience--what is the point for that while the Chinese Government is lending huge amount of investment to other foreign countries at the same time?
Isn't that sympathetic?!!
Aren't these poor Chinese people sympathetic?!! For their 'blood-related' government (this is a thing the President of China always emphasizes, to show their dignity and kindness inherited from their parents) abandons them-- to make friendship/loanership with other countries. And don't forget that--it must have taken years and years to save up these loanings, which means in these years that the poor Chinese people are suffering, the Chinese government had been hooking up their money... for what? God knows.
Just my thinkings--No offense.
