Why meet many of Donna, and strange and confusing issues, often leave me with wonder Jawed relax. But look more closely at this apparent stupid questions, not only reflect the differences in thinking between East and West, but can also act as a mirror to examine our own to come in small
My favorite that I agree with my friends is a question that the Chinese would ask: Why the Chinese are growing the trees along the road? The question was put to me by a French diplomat, and yet I don t have a good answer. Of course, the trees planted by people and that China is not the natural environment and forests and deforestation in recent years, many people seem not only see trees. Natural trees for people living in the steppe, a luxury. Thus, by the 1980s, the government introduced a policy of planting trees throughout China and the Chinese people see is rows and rows of trees planted used village to village. It is difficult to understand for foreigners. Tr Aveling lived throughout Europe, you will find everything that was planned in the same way, the landscape changes massively.
Last year I returned to my hometown in Shandong and learn more about this stupid question. The village has been invited to a village to fight the new socialist village to build. Along the roads in an area of 50 meters, was full of trees. The answer is: the trees planted by man, and should be planted. What's even more amazing is that all the houses painted in the way of the same color so that the village is a new village.
The second issue is the policy for the child. When I travel abroad, often before asking this question by foreigners curious: Can you just a baby? Or even come with: You've killed your second child? Then I was an interpreter of our national sentiments, saying that foreign, that child policy has helped China with its population, and that this pressure has advantages for all the world. After I explained, it seems that the understanding of many different people in Europe, but Americans had been taken. Americans on the issue of abortion has worked in every presidential elections. Q RAGE if the President agrees with abortion, it seems ridiculous that the Chinese people is something that Americans do one thing. The wave of Germans questioned the German population of Berlin on the issue of policy for the child. The results show that the long term, the policy included many critics in the West. But according to official statistics, since their implementation in the late 1970s, the policy, as seen from 300 with 400 million births less. It is a great result for a world that has a growing population and fewer resources? The professor, who conducted the research, said that the reason the policy is under attack, the most brutal way in which it applies, and select the rights for which the West is hard power. But if the Chinese people continued to have on prices, would lead to hunger and the struggle for resources to develop. If China does not take this path, despite international criticism and the development of Chinese economy, we are seeing today is not the case.
The third interesting question raised by a Swedish entrepreneur. I was 40 years on the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, Summer Palace, and even had a whole duck. Then, the last day, in a windy part of the 4th Ring Road, after visiting the Bird's Nest, suddenly asked: What will not only see children playing on playgrounds in Beijing; Including Sweden, most European countries now have cities like Beijing, which is constructed, and to recapture some of the cultural background, their style, open spaces, etc. Berlin, next to the construction of a new German Chancellor a large open lawn and see the full of children playing soccer on the weekends.
rom this we can see how reliable foreign praise China really is. Since the educational exchanges between China and the United States in the 1980s, American students were far more advanced than the Chinese, when children in terms of creativity and Chinese students believe that their memory was terrible. Later, twenty years, the leadership of this group are all adults now and we can see that in every way surpassing Chinese America. Too bad American children wrong.
The next question is philosophical: In business, the Chinese use the metric system, but if the amount in the account using the imperial system. Not only is this confusing? This problem affects some profound agreement in the Chinese psyche. Although we have said many times, as foreign things serve China and the past serve the present, we have often, even in the face of the West, and can not be counterfeiters like the very fact of Japanese property. A good example would be to play football with the West and that Chinese investment, whether young celebrate Valentine's Day and Christmas. The metric system in China for years, but people are stubborn when using the imperial system. It testament to the resilience of our ethnic culture, and we are slow to adapt to new things. Take a look at Japan, which fell to the lunar calendar, next to the Western calendar. We celebrate mid-autumn, but received 15 August each year.
The last question asked by an American journalist. The old hack was always far ahead and it was always the first to raise his hand to ask the question after another, so that even the New York Times journalist and economist gave way. The question was: The Chinese always say that we know about the past and the future should reflect something about your past to tell your future? Discussing the reporter began to say: I do not want an answer, but I always bring respect to the Chinese. There is no right answer and goes to prove that all the time saying things most of us know Arent tightly controlled easily.
These five questions that explore all aspects of the cultural divide, go to show that there is no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers.
