{"id":909,"date":"2023-10-24T03:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/24\/misunderstandings-about-china-by-foreigners\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T16:16:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T08:16:22","slug":"misunderstandings-about-china-by-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/misunderstandings-about-china-by-foreigners\/","title":{"rendered":"Misunderstandings About China By Foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8211;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of 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ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/misunderstandings-about-china-by-foreigners\/#The_Chinese_are_short\" title=\"The Chinese are short\">The Chinese are short<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/misunderstandings-about-china-by-foreigners\/#Photo_wwwchinlingocom-2\" title=\"Photo: www.chinlingo.com\">Photo: www.chinlingo.com<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/misunderstandings-about-china-by-foreigners\/#5_%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E4%BA%BA%E9%83%BD%E5%BE%88%E6%9C%89%E9%8C%A2\" title=\"5. \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba\u90fd\u5f88\u6709\u9322\">5. \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba\u90fd\u5f88\u6709\u9322<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/misunderstandings-about-china-by-foreigners\/#The_Chinese_are_wealthy\" title=\"The Chinese are wealthy\">The Chinese are wealthy<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/misunderstandings-about-china-by-foreigners\/#Photo_Sohu\" title=\"Photo: Sohu\">Photo: Sohu<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E4%BA%BA%E6%95%B0%E5%AD%A6%E5%BE%88%E5%A5%BD\"><\/span><b><span style=\"color: #e33737;\">1. \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba\u6570\u5b66\u5f88\u597d<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Chinese_are_all_good_at_Mathematics\"><\/span><b><span style=\"color: #e33737;\">The Chinese are all good at Mathematics<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fm70z6ZRaBLUEuumctv2sF2-mu5V?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"chinlingo.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" title=\"\">Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinlingo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.chinlingo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgba(12, 11, 11, 0.96); font-size: 16px;\">Many foreigners believe that the Chinese are all fairly good at math and able to work out the math problems easily that are rather difficult to them. However, the fact is that not every Chinese person does well in math.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E4%BA%BA%E9%83%BD%E4%BC%9A%E5%8A%9F%E5%A4%AB\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #e33737;\">2. \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba\u90fd\u4f1a\u529f\u592b<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"All_the_Chinese_know_how_to_play_Kungfu\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #e33737;\">All the Chinese know how to play Kungfu<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FuJdpSVuEIRxZcqLTJHwOdPLWa9n?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"YouTube.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"\">Photo: Youtube<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Do all the Chinese know Kungfu? Most foreigners have seen Chinese Kungfu films starring Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan or Jet Li, as well as some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/jobs?type=marketing\">Chinese swordplay films<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So they take for granted that most Chinese people know Kungfu and can even fly over the eaves and run on the walls easily (known as acrobatics). As a matter of fact, most Chinese people don\u2019t know Kungfu, despite of the different \u201cKungfu dreams\u201d in their mind \u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E4%BA%BA%E5%85%B5%E4%B9%93%E7%90%83%E9%83%BD%E5%BE%88%E5%8E%89%E5%AE%B3\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #e33737;\">3. \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba\u5175\u4e53\u7403\u90fd\u5f88\u5389\u5bb3<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"All_the_Chinese_play_table_tennis_well\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #e33737;\">All the Chinese play table tennis well<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fh4lzuulBcghSjYoKM6m06klMRYu?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"chinlingo1.jpg\" width=\"913\" height=\"557\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_wwwchinlingocom\"><\/span>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinlingo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.chinlingo.com<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the Olympic Games, the Chinese table tennis players have always done well and won the championships, which impresses foreigners that all Chinese people must play table tennis very well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus, when they play table tennis with Chinese friends and win, they would believe they are really awesome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although table tennis is the <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/national\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national<\/a> sport of China, it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that every Chinese person plays it well. There are many newbies to table tennis, just like me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E4%BA%BA%E9%83%BD%E5%BE%88%E7%9F%AE\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #e33737;\">4. \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba\u90fd\u5f88\u77ee<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Chinese_are_short\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #e33737;\">The Chinese are short<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FrJTlYL4bokc9umomCpgjhc4VSNw?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"chinlingo2.jpg\" width=\"779\" height=\"487\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_wwwchinlingocom-2\"><\/span>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinlingo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.chinlingo.com<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Compared with the Europeans and Americans, the Chinese are not tall on average. Many foreigners have formed the stereotype that the Chinese are short. So they are always taken by surprise when they see Chinese who are as tall as them. In fact, there are also tall people in China, for example, the northerners.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5_%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E4%BA%BA%E9%83%BD%E5%BE%88%E6%9C%89%E9%8C%A2\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #e33737;\">5. \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba\u90fd\u5f88\u6709\u9322<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Chinese_are_wealthy\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #e33737;\">The Chinese are wealthy<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FsZNccWuPypTdRjt1Yo9SZb8pUY5?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"Sohu.jpeg\" width=\"1023\" height=\"730\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Sohu\"><\/span>Photo: Sohu<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When one <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"inside_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/tag\/travel\/\" title=\"View all posts in travel\">travel<\/a>s somewhere, he or she would probably see many Chinese people <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"inside_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/tag\/shopping\/\" title=\"View all posts in shopping\">shopping<\/a> a lot. As a result, many people who don\u2019t know much about China would simply believe that the Chinese are all wealthy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s not the case. Like all other countries, there are also poor people in China. Many Chinese people cannot afford to travel outside China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FgqzDCtFRTYlaeUF3wzTUAA3J0S_?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"2017-9-7-4.gif\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #044df6;\">\u00a0<strong>Do you agree with them?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #044df6;\"><strong>Please leave your comments!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FlXXlKXBxtykYAuKbjvAxKMwIbVH?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"GIC.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"543.2937181663837\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8211; 1. \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba\u6570\u5b66\u5f88\u597d The Chinese are all good at Mathematics Photo: www.chinlingo.com Many foreigners believe that the Chinese are all fairly good at math and able to work out the &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[60,353,306,1092,29,34,559,1104,27,54,30,214],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funny","tag-china","tag-e-china-cities","tag-hiredchina","tag-https-www-hiredchina-com-jobstypemarketing","tag-jobs","tag-jobs-in-china","tag-marketing","tag-misunderstandings-about-china-by-foreigners","tag-news","tag-sales-manager","tag-shopping","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12064,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/12064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}