2006-07-03 02:44:23 · 8 answers · asked by roz 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I'm a first generation in America Chinese and I agree that, along with our Japanese and Korea cousins, we are, as a group, culturally inclined to a variety of behaviors that work well for us in the current situation that we find ourselves in.
The reason I use such an unwieldy and complicated way of answering is because I think we should be careful not to suggest that we are somehow better than other ethnic groups.
A poor Latin American subsistence farmer works very hard but he is trapped in a system that gives him few rewards for his labor. The African American who is consigned from birth to a neighborhood with poor schools, ineffective police, and brutal street gangs must work hard just to stay alive.
Either in our homeland or transplanted to America, we Chinese may have had a rough time in many ways but we have owned our own culture and been strong enough in numbers to maintain our cultural dignity.
Our cultural focus on education is valuable in modern society but one should remember that not too long ago it was seen by the "practical" West as a bit silly. The picture of people sitting around studying Confucius rather than "working" was not held in high regard. Now that we are studying math, engineering and physics they sing a different tune.
I have traveled too much and been too many places to think that any one group has a monopoly on any virtue or that people are inherently different. Culture acting on a particular set of circumstances makes people what they are.
2006-07-03 03:55:27 · answer #1 · answered by Rillifane 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes Chinese are, they are many so they have to survive by doing more at a short period of time. Its their culture.
2006-07-03 09:47:51 · answer #2 · answered by Joy RP 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In many ways yes, but the yoke of communism/oppression around their necks is almost as heavy to bare as it was for Russia.
2006-07-03 09:58:16 · answer #3 · answered by smile4763 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they are. They always have been. It is our culture(I am Chinese American).
2006-07-03 09:49:10 · answer #4 · answered by AsianPersuasion :) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, its bcos they nvr could get things the easy way and also bcos of the family teachings.
2006-07-03 11:01:38 · answer #5 · answered by Raven Hood® 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ages ago they were a closed civilization now things changed
2006-07-03 21:31:19 · answer #6 · answered by cactus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, now they are.
2006-07-03 09:47:13 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
VERY
2006-07-03 19:54:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋