Originally posted by china sux:
china sux
Ten Reasons Why China Sucks
1. The internet here is almost unusably bad. Many overseas sites
simply aren't reachable and even the ones that are, are very, very
slow. Must be their uber censorship router filtering everything
coming into the country.
2. Horrible Mandarin. A properly educated mainland Chinese person
speaks beautiful Mandarin, I have to admit. Unfortunately, most
Chinese people aren't well educated and they speak horrendous
Mandarin.
3. Simplified writing is an abomination. It's as if one day the
American government decided that not enough people are literate so
they decide to adopt text messaging shortcuts as the national
written language "cuz it's EZer 2 Lern."
4. Chinese people have absolutely no concept of waiting in line.
It's just one manifestation of the general lack of curtesy here.
I've never met a population of people that exhibited such rudeness.
It's all part of the lack of education that I mentioned
before.
5. Pollution. And I include with this not only the horrible air
pollution, but noise pollution as well. The constant honking on the
streets slowly drives me insane as I walk around the city. I know
this isn't just Chinese, it happens in many other places, but man,
they love to honk here. Car horns. Bicycle horns. Police whistles.
It's non-stop noise everywhere.
6. If the honking doesn't drive you mad, the cacaphony of people
hocking up phlegm will do it. Maybe it's the horrible air quality,
but why do Chinese people have so much phlegm????
7. Chinese people love to yell. You'll usually find at least one or
two people on every block angrily screaming at someone about
something or other.
8. Food generally speaking is horrible here. The hygiene is
low-to-non-existent and the culinary skills are seriously lacking
as well. I wouldn't be caught dead eating anything from a street
vendor in China. You can get food poisoning just by looking at
them. Speaking of restaurants, the quality of service in China
stinks as well. Due to the cheap labor, the ratio of the waiters to
customers is frequently 2-to-1. Yet most Chinese wait staff have no
idea how to properly wait a table.
9. Bad architecture and design. Chinese people's concept of good
architecture is a building with a faux european renaissance look
with a lot of gold trimming, hopefully with a fancy top. Driving
around Shanghai, you'll notice that almost every building has some
sort of "hat" on top.
10. Too many instances of dirty old men paired with hot young
things. It's just disgusting and sad. I know there are sugar daddys
all over the world, but it's literally all over the streets here.
You can't turn around without seeing an old man with a pretty young
girl.[/b]
hm.. a little biased i must say.. though many of the things u
said are very true...
(1) State controlled media .. good example there.. but what makes
you think our local media aint controlled?? We still have the ISD
and SBA you noe.. 
(2) hm.. I don't think Sporeans speak fantastic Chinese either.. If
TS thinks US is much better, think again... every state in the US
have their own accent to the extent that it's uncomprehensible.. so
I guess it happens all around the world.. no point debating on
this.. Wan to listen to good mandarin, go Beijing.
(3) No comments
(4) Agreed. But here in modern and supposedly highly educated SG,
we still have a group of ppl we call "aunties" fighting to catch a
seat on the trains, rushing in the moment the doors open.. causing
huge disruption to the flow of traffic. What more can i say.. the
aunties said it all with their actions.
(5) I agree with you on the horning. Air pollution wise, probably
bad governance and also western countries shifting manufacturing
industries to china for their low labour costs. this inevitably
generated more air pollution that western countries. so we should
blame western countries and their irresponsible companies as well
shouldn't we?
(6) This is totally unaccepetable I must admit.
(7) This is probably the result of the traffic horning. Whenever we
look at a problem, we should look at the cause and root of the
problem.
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I guess this is lack of hospitality management
courses and institutions available. Bad governance.
(9) If you look into the history of Shanghai, Shanghai was the
first port to be opened up the westerners. Thus many of their old
buildings along the most famous part of chang jiang have european
styled achitecture. People who grew up there naturally refer this
to nice. I mean whether something is beautiful is a matter of
perspective isn't it? A cliche "beauty lies in the eyes of the
beholder" tells it all...
(10) Pointless to bring up since there's just as many in SG.
Conclusion: I just wan to point out that TS is perfectly correct.
I'm not questioning TS's power of observation but the power of
critical thinking. TS has a set of good's and bads.. thus when one
looks at another society.. we tend to judge.. Which we obviously
shouldn't..
Because the society is like this for a reason.. probably due to
poor governance or history or the Chinese culture.
China's a really huge country. If the problems can happen in sg, it
can happen a few thousand fold in China. It was already very
difficult to govern SG... think about China.. We have 4 major
races, they have a few hundreds. So I hope for all readers to have
patience.. Soon China WILL be on par with the States. It's not a
matter of will it.. but a matter of when.
You never know, maybe your kids will adore China instead of the
States.
