So what does everyone really think of China? I interviewed some of my Cornell peers on campus to find out some general thoughts.
Question: What do you like most about China?
Let’s start with me. The thing I like the most? Easy: FOOD!
Here are some responses that I got from Chinese students:
-You can barter for things there
-The fact that China has people who hold the potential to get with white people and produce beautiful half-Asian offspring (yes, the interviewee was half-Asian)
Non-Chinese subjects had a few different answers:
-I really like studying Chinese history
- I like the way that they can eat just about anything, but all of their food is really healthy
-They make everything there
I then asked the same people the exact opposite: What do you not like about China?
Me: I don’t like the fact that China censors the media. I went back to Shanghai this past summer, and toward the end of my trip, a riot broke out in Urumqi, a city in northwest China. The government immediately censored many international communication networks, such as facebook, youtube, and twitter. Thankfully I left a few days later. Let’s face it: life without facebook sucks.
A couple of other students similarly responded “I don’t like the fact that China is communist.”
Some other responses include:
-The culture is can be very xenophobic. I’m not a fan of that
-I think the Great Wall is too long
-Their cultural inability to form a line (when waiting to do something like buy movie tickets)
