Ok, so here goes.
I have found that many people here have a hatred of China and the chinese, what I seriously can't figure out is why?
Sure, this country has more than its fair share of stupid monkey pig shits, but that is not because they are chinese, its because they are stupid monkey pig shits. Every country is the same. You know it and i know it.
Education will solve many of societies ills here, so relax and give them time to sort their shit out.
Remember, this society was agrarian twenty years ago.
Live by the following motto and i promise you will be 100% happier "my way is the right way of doing things, but its not the only right way"
They are stupid monkey pig shits who validate and entrench their stupid monkey pigshittedness with herd mantras and fatuous gaseous bromides.
New Zealand has boring middle trash as well as bogans, but their values aren't entrenched and being permeated outward (and downward onto the next generation) by the institutions within the country.
Oh man!
You do not know the public holidays announced officially by the governments and you blame your colleagues for that? (by the way these announcement can be found also in English).
I dare to say your example does not sound to me as proof of Chinese stupidity ...
Yup, never the staff's fault... always the foreigner.
My buddy told me the other day his Chinese employer had been holding his passport for about 2 months. Every time he asked for it... the guy said he would bring it the next day...
Finally, he got sick of it and told him that he would not continue classes until he had received it. The employer says to him, "Why do you want to make this relationship bad?"
That's Chinese people. Use people's good nature against them, and abuse relationships then when the other people protests (as they should), they try to make them feel guilty by saying THE OTHER person is creating bad blood. They do this with foreigners a lot too cause they are more vulnerable.
Happens ALL the time!
Some of us are considered pro China, to the extent that we are sometimes suspected wumaos .
The problem is, when we have a BCD, it is often for a reason that will not go away. Corruption for example.It is so ingrained into the culture that it is considered normal, and no matter what Government say or do, there is no sign of it going away.
Things such as internet control are on the increase, the promises made before the Games having been forgotten.
The things such as spitting and lack of etiquette are small things compared to the biggies. But a small thing can push a sane rational person into being a gibbering ranter on a BCD. I have been there many times.
But of course, the main big one is insecurity. No matter what us foreigners do, we are always guests who can be kicked out on a whim, with no recourse whatsoever. That can be a little stressful if you have a family here. Our status is never secure. We have medicals to face, paperwork to get, and we have to work in conditions of near indentureship.
Yup. I live in GZ where not many people speak Mandarin.
It is not unusual to come across Cantonese speakers who can't speak Mandarin, and Mandarin speakers who cant speak Cantonese. Add to that a lot more dialects from all over China, and there is a communication issue here with our without us being thrown into the mix .
I remember reading... only 60% of Chinese understand Mandarin to a fluent level?
I really think that a lot, or even most of the people here don't actually hate China,although it does come across that way, they just hate living here sometimes and vent online to get it out of the system.
As mentioned above, you do tend to notice the negatives, there can be a lot of them and coming from a completely different culture where you just don't see the negative things that are considered normal here doesn't help.
Everyone has bad China days.
I think "Hate" is a bit harsh word to use... Nobody hates China, from reading previous questions and posts everybody have had their share of BCD's (bad china days)... That could be the reason, but on a whole there are plenty of good stuff around here. Also I've met plenty of really good people, but irony is we tend to only remember the bad one's and make a perception out of it...
From my personal opinion : China is lot like my country, and yeah I mean spitting, starring, cons and all of that, but with better infrastructure and slightly bad English. I don't hate any bit of it, there are more worst things in the world then this..
And I think most of the people will agree, they don't really hate it here, but then again, it's just me.. so who knows the right answer?