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As we all know, there are obvious differences between American lifestyle and Chinese lifestyle. Americans have various views about Chinese people’s life, let’s take a look at what they would say.

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1. Chinese like to buy luxury cars and products

In the countries out of China, most of the salespeople can talk with costumers in Chinese, even some of them are just Chinese people...Such high attention on Chinese marketing reveals that Chinese have high demands with Luxury goods.

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2. Chinese like certain numbers

Expats in China feel quite confused that why Chinese people like to take certain numbers when they select phone number, car’s plate number, door number and stuff? What’s the difference between those numbers?!

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3. Chinese tend to speak loudly

Chinese people tend to speak loudly even in public place. They talk on the phone in high voice like nobody is around. It would be really awkward when Chinese people do so in some places requiring absolute quiet, such as “Quiet Carriage”on the train in the United States.

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4. Chinese use squat toilet

Chinese are used to using squat toilet, they take it in squatting way even for flush toilet. It is beyond mad for expats when they see the footprints on the flush toilet.

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5. Chinese drink warm water/milk

Chinese people barely drink running water directly. They boil water before they drink it, they keep this habit even in the United States where people believe it’s safe to drink running water. And also, Chinese barely drink milk taken directly from fridge, yes, they warm it up too...

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6. Chinese eat almost EVERYTHING, and they can’t gain weight

Foreigners in China think that Chinese almost eat everything, the more strange the food is, the more they are attracted to, such as animal brain, animal entrails, pig trotters, chicken feet, duck feet, frogs... What really drives foreigners crazy is that Chinese people are usually skinny even though most of them are foodies.

It is said that Chinese eat dogs, shark’s fin, cubilose and bear’s paws and stuff. Foreigners just can’t understand how they have heart to eat dogs---the best friends of human being and why they show off that they got chance to eat shark’s fin and bear’s paws, which are acts of Cruelty to animals.

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7. Chinese are smart and they are good at mathematic

It’s the opinion of foreigners that Chinese are talented in Math, their super brain can do complicated Math without trying hard! Chinese people barely rely on calculator when they do Math, an accurate answer comes right after a short thinking time. In the United States, people think Chinese like Math so much that many of them would choose Accounting as major, But the fact is Chinese students are passionate about Accounting mainly because they see it as a major may help them with immigration in the future.

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8. Chinese like to ask personal information

In foreigners’ opinion, information such as age, income are quite personal. But Chinese people are interested in knowing a person by asking information like that, even with a person they first meet.

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9. Chinese people take “face” seriously

Chinese care a lot about how people think about them. If you give a Chinese a comment which may make him/her feel embarrassed (“lose face”as said by Chinese) , he/she may bear grudges against you and be mad at you for whole day long.

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10. Chinese like running restaurant

You can see Chinese Restaurants everywhere out of China, no matter how small the city is, no matter how faraway the little town is, You can always see restaurant running by Chinese. Most of the Chinese restaurants open for 365 days, and offer from breakfast to dinner…… Foreigners usually feel appreciate by how hard they work.

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So, what do you think?

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