How We See China

Living in China, for a Westerner, is a unique experience for each person. There is no particular impression that can sum up what it is to be in China because each private not only looks at China from a distinct viewpoint, but there are innumerable things to been seen.

First off China can be divided into Southern and Northern culture. While the most customary staple of Chinese diet is rice, folks from the north rarely eat it. When you ask a Chinese someone from a southern area what the contrast in the middle of the North and the South is, they'll tell you three things. They're taller. It's colder. They eat bread, not rice.

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China can also very much be divided into cultural groups as well. Although the majority of China is Han - a striking 91 percent, there are many larger groups and even more smaller groups of assorted Ethnic Minorities, mostly located in the western regions. Some of the groups which may be customary to Westerners contain Uyghurs, Tibetan, Hakka, and Mongols but there are many more. A total of fifty-six ethnic minority groups reside in China.

China also has a huge range of living conditions and lifestyles from the very western influenced, modern and luxurious flats of Shanghai to farming villages where residents still live in communal houses and paved roads are something you'll only see after a thirty-minute motorcycle ride followed by a twenty-minute bus ride.

As westerners in China, no matter how long we live here, we tend to group our experiences together and say to ourselves, "This is China." But it's foremost to think that China is distinct to everyone. someone who lived in a community in Inner Mongolia for six months in the winter will have seen a completely distinct China from someone who lived in Guangzhou for 5 years.

No only must we look at our surroundings, but we must also look at ourselves. Where do we come from and how does it sway how we see China? I've been in China for four years now. I had former lived abroad, and am originally from California. I'm happy here and may end up settling down here one day. Most recently a new educator came to our school from Georgia. Within one month she had been robbed, stalked, and humiliated and swiftly went home. The story she tells her friends about China will be very distinct from mine.

How We See China

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