My teacher left a composition, which was relative to the foreigners' opinions of China. I have to hand it about half months later.:eek:

Therefore, please show me your opinions of China, anything is greatly appreciated... :)

I mean, you could show anything you like, such as "My father told me that Chinese are stupid";), or "I have learned that China is a poor country" etc.:eek:

What's more, I do hope you could show your opinions elaborately and your hope about China or Chinese, and tell me where you're from, if you don't mind you could show your age but it's not so important.

Thanks, my friends, just do me a favor!
:D

I'll be happy to give my opinions on China. I'm 62 by the way and have never been out of the USA. I would like to one day visit the wonderful country of China if I could do so.

China is a very organized country having decided a long time ago to join all the provinces together to be united and fend off any advances from marauding peoples. China has one of the oldest cultures in the world. I admire their ability to see beauty in just about every ordinary object. I know that the tea ceremony and the drinking of tea is important to them in their life. I have been told that the tea drinking helps in their meditation abilities. I personally like the Lapsang Souchong tea. I marvel at how wonderfully "woodsey" it tastes and gets better the more you drink of it. The rural people of China have great food preparation as well. I love Chinese food. When I lived in NYC many years ago I went to a Chinese restaurant that was owned by the Chef who was formerly with the Chinese Embassy. He was a wonderful cook and would cook some of my favorite Mandarin dishes to perfection. I was always happy when he came out from the kitchen himself and asked me what I wished to eat that evening. I could always tell when he prepared the food as it always tasted "perfect" to me.

I find the Chinese people to be wonderfully patient and kind. I've had many Chinese friends over the years. They have taught me many different useful things that I still do to this day.

I enjoy watching movies about ancient China and how that culture and country evolved. How many peoples of China willingly gave their lives so that Our Land could continue.

Hi,twinkiedooter,thank you very much!

I've learnt that USA is a great country, and students from Chinese university always like to choose USA for their further studies. Americans are humorous and friendly, and these days I was watching some shows which named "Just for laugh", however, I don't know exactly whether the shows are from USA or not... If it's covenient for you, I hope you could tell me more about the shows, because I don't know how to get information about that...

When it comes to Spoken English, I really like NYC's pronunciation. It sounds like Beijing dialect, I mean, it sounds good.;)

By the way, we always regard the green tea as the most useful tea, so we prefer to drink the green tea.:) And I almost drink it everyday... :p
Thanks!

I am not familiar with that particular TV show. It does not sound like any show I've ever heard of. This show could be from Canada or Australia or England.

Just For Laughs Video Clips & Extras on TV.com

I used a search engine on the net and found that the show is from England.

I do enjoy green tea as well. I like to drink it either hot or have it ice cold in the summer.

I do find the written Chinese to look like pictures instead of words. I guess if I studied the written Chinese language it would not seem so strange to me if I understood what each symbol meant.

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Originally Posted by twinkiedooter

I am not familiar with that particular tv show. It does not sound like any show I've ever heard of. This show could be from Canada or Australia or England.

Just For Laughs Video Clips & Extras on TV.com

I used a search engine on the net and found that the show is from England.

I do enjoy green tea as well. I like to drink it either hot or have it ice cold in the summer.

I do find the written Chinese to look like pictures instead of words. I guess if I studied the written Chinese language it would not seem so strange to me if I understood what each symbol meant.

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Thanks!twinkiedooter.

Yet I've learned English are conservative, I was confused by their making that kind of TV show.:)

What you said about Chinese was absolutely right. Chinese was originately created by pictures, but it has evloved since long time.

And I do believe you could understand some Chinese words, such as "笑","哭","人","山" etc.
We also used 6000 characters in common,though we had 90 thousand words in total.
I mean, when I learnt English,I have to remember more than 5000 words... What's more, I don't think Chinese is so difficult, if you could remember some common words.:)

By the way, I would like to tell you what the words mean, "笑" means laugh,"哭" means cry,"人" means people, and "山" means mountain. Don't you think the symbols were iconic?:D

Thanks!

Hi shihouzhuge,

Well, I am in Tasmania, Australia and I am a 23 year old female.

Unfortunately I don't know a lot about China but I will tell you my perception of it from television and what I learnt at school.

I live in a small city (population 75,000) so I see the cities in China as being very busy and crowded, and (being honest) I have heard a lot about the pollution there thanks to the Olympics in Beijing.
All the footage on television showed smog over the cities, I know that is not what the whole country is like but that is what I think of with the big cities.

Away from the cities in the farming towns I have heard and seen that it is very beautiful (rolling green hills and mountains) but the people in the more remote villages are/can be extremely poor and have trouble supporting themselves.
I saw a documentary about a man that had been attacked by a wild animal and had to have a partial face transplant, the medical team couldn't drive to his village because it was so remote, they dropped him off and he had to walk for 2 hours through forest to get home.

I don't know much about politics or history, even though you are one of our closest neighbours!

I hope that helped you, sorry I can't give you much more.

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Hi shihouzhuge,

Well, I am in Tasmania, Australia and I am a 23 year old female.

Unfortunately I don't know a lot about China but I will tell you my perception of it from television and what I learnt at school.

I live in a small city (population 75,000) so I see the cities in China as being very busy and crowded, and (being honest) I have heard a lot about the pollution there thanks to the Olympics in Beijing.
All the footage on television showed smog over the cities, I know that is not what the whole country is like but that is what I think of with the big cities.

Away from the cities in the farming towns I have heard and seen that it is very beautiful (rolling green hills and mountains) but the people in the more remote villages are/can be extremely poor and have trouble supporting themselves.
I saw a documentary about a man that had been attacked by a wild animal and had to have a partial face transplant, the medical team couldn't drive to his village because it was so remote, they dropped him off and he had to walk for 2 hours through forest to get home.

I don't know much about politics or history, even though you are one of our closest neighbours!

I hope that helped you, sorry I can't give you much more.

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Hi,shazamataz.

Thanks a lot!
As a Chinese proverb says, there're many kinds of birds in a big forest. I mean, as there're so many people in China, no wonder that some are kind and others may not. In deed, China is just a developing country, so remote villages are poor, however, our president has been working hard about the problem.

On the other hand, I do like Australia's kangaroos, they look pretty cute.:)
A week ago, I've seen a vedio about a boxing kangaroo, who liked hitting others.;)
I think he was from Australia, but I'm not sure...

Thanks!

I have never been to China but my impressions from what I read and see in the media and hear from people who have been there are that, whether they are true or not, the following stereotypes appear to be widely held...

Good things...
The people are very thoughtful and philosophical about life, appreciate beauty and culture and history, revere tradition.
The people are devoted to caring for the elderly within the family - son's caring for parents for example.
Age is valued rather than viewed as a negative.
Industriousness as a culture and as individuals is valued.
People who have a deformity or disability are shunned, such as those who have been burned, are developmentally disabled, etc. They are not treated as they should be in China.
The country was cut off from culture for a very long time and remains cut off from the rest of the world to the extent the government wishes to control things like internet access.
The poor are very poor, and caste systems which remain make it difficult for someone born to a particular station in life to improve their circumstances.
Government can be corrupt.
The country uses torture and excessive force to politically control their people such as with the Tianenman Square massacre and still refuse to take responsibility for the resulting horror.
The individual is not valued.
Girls are considered throw-aways due to the extremes of birth control policy, and women are not valued as they should be.

Hi,dontknownuthin.

Thanks for your honest, and I've been told that many people from the west country are cool to China...

As is known to us all, president Zedong Mao commit many mistakes, such as "the Great Cultural Revolution", the Tianenman Square massacre and he killed many intelligent leaders. All Chinese have known this, but he help Chinese to stand up as a normal person.

As a matter of fact, I don't like him because his mistake. However, Xiaoping Deng was a great leader, and we liked him very much, so did Enlai Zhou.

As for our leader present, most Chinese like to call president Hu "Hu ge", which means brother, and we call premier Wen "Wen bao bao" because of his babyface. I mean, we don't hate our government except Mao and "si ren bang"...

To my knowledge, what you said was pass, I mean, China is different now...

Thanks again for your honest!