ZT The superstitious Chinese

People who have dealt with Chinese are constantly frustrated by their notorious disrespect of rules and regulations. It seems that Chinese are extremely indulged themselves, more than any other race on this earth, in the power of magic and superstitions. Foreigners are often bewildered by Chinese people’s obsession with magical power. Few could come up with rational explanation as to what is the cause of this condemnable habit. Obviously, this habit has forced most Chinese not to follow rules and proper procedures when conducting affairs, but instead to rely on short cut or unconventional means which often insidiously undermine the integrity of the whole legal or moral system.

Chinese people’s obsession with magic power can be found virtually every where, from fields of business to politics and academic affairs. Foreigners are constantly being asked question such as what is the best way to learn English. What is the quickest way to get US? How to get scholarship from American university? To Chinese, American universities must have endless scholarship to support these people who are most often lack of basic manner and human decency. Every American, regardless his background, is in charge of issuing visa or giving scholarship.

Chinese seem to believe that there must a magic wane with which they could fulfill their dream instantly by waving its magical stroke. The underlined message of this habit is the idea of avoiding hard work and necessary sacrifices. Namely, Chinese want to get everything with no effort and no diligence. This mentality, in one way or the other, helps cultivate a characteristic of selfish, cheap, lack sense of aesthetic taste and style, and above all, dishonesty. Anything with value can not be obtained without due diligence and sacrifice. Lack of seriousness and respect of craftsmanship and professionalism make Chinese to produce things with low quality and style. The goal is not to create anything with beauty but merely to get by and to exchange for a quick profit.

Chinese are also inclined to believe that everything of foreign origin must posses certain magical power that could guarantee them success and wealth and status. Chinese people with western degrees generally believe that they are superior to those who do not have. The degrees, most in technical fields, will guarantee them prestige and respect from their fellow Chinese regardless what they can bring to the society. Chinese attitude toward jobs is mostly based on economic perspective. Few if any will understand a job is more than a pay check but a set of serious responsibilities. Chinese generally try to avoid taking any responsibilities because they have no sense of mission and achievement. All they care is a petty profit and easy life style.

Enterprise owned and run by Chinese could not go beyond family scale because Chinese do not trust those without blood tie. There has not been a case that Chinese had successfully established a well run, efficient, multi National Corporation. To Chinese a corporation is just an extended version of a family work shop. Although during Mao’s period, China did have some large state run enterprises. Unfortunately none of them has succeeded to these days because they all have suffered and deceased from the incurable flaws of Chinese characteristic, namely corruption, inefficiency and obsolete technology. Virtually no great invention of modern time has any Chinese origin; Chinese are basically free riders or parasites living on the mercy of other people’s economic system.

Chinese, according to my observation, know nothing of professionalism and therefore has no respect of intellectual rights. After all, why pay more if you can get pirate copy for a fraction of the original cost? Chinese are extremely shrewd when it comes to cutting corner and being cheap. Yet they forget it is honesty and law abiding behavior that make a society a modern one in which majority people will benefit. Over all, no one respect China or Chinese society as a whole because they have no respect of the basic decency that constitutes modern society. People tend to look down upon a Chinese no matter how wealthy he might be because a person is not an individual subject but a reflection of a cultural and moral background. As a culture and race, Chinese did not create a positive image among most people in this world.

From Chinese people’s characteristics we could see many features that commonly existed among the people in most backward and primitive societies. One thing differentiates China from an ordinary primitive society is that China does posses certain destructive potential to undermine the stability of the whole world community. Chinese will likely resort to violence if their face saving habit is not granted and their pathetic self esteem is smeared. China could launch a war if domestic issues such as poverty, corruption, unemployment, get out of control and the regime must find a way to vent the pressure to make sure its own survival. Based on these facts, we could well draw a sound conclusion that China, despite of hysterical camouflage and distortion is still potential source of catastrophes.



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his analysis is not really persuasive due to lack of discussion and thorough examination with give some facts. but some of the points are worth to be considered by us!