Good evening everyone ,i am a chinese ,when i saw what you said about chinese i think i must say something .As a chinese , i think i have a responsibility to let people know us chinese and our culture .Chinese is the same with other people , we are not mystic . And why you think Chinese is mystic and difficult to understand , because you don't know our culture and our people ,just as we think foreighers are strange and difficult to understand sometimes .In addition ,i think maybe because in the movies ,in the eatern country many mystic things happened ,We have a long history about five thousand years ,in our country there are many interesting things ,some are impenetrable and we can explain in a scientific way.So maybe in some people's mind , We are mystic and strange .But in fact , we are the same with you ,we have many advantages and weaknesses .

Chinese is hard working ,humility,(we believe hunility make people progress and pretension make droping behind).smart We respect elders,love our children and family,……And we are normal people ,we have our weakness such as snobbery …….Things have two sides .So i think all peole must judge others in a normal way and try to understand others .

Chinese are very friendly ,so if   you want to understand Chinese ,come to China and we will give you a satisfactory answer .Forgive me poor english.

Hi there. So happy to find lots of people talking about my motherland and our culture.I think it's natural to hear different voice here.At least it means you are paying attention to China, Chinese & our culture.

I am a native Chinese, working at an American trade company in China.One day, I forwarded some outing pictures of mine to a colleague in U.S.A. She was terrific surprised that there were so many beautiful natural scenics in China.She said she pictured China to be very different than I told her. She thought China was very crowded with traffic,buildings & people...ect.She said she also was not sure Chinese had kayak in the river or not?? I can't say any words about it,due to I know she hasn't been to China ans isn't understand China.

I am not surprised most of foreigners feel strange & mysterious  to China.Just like I also feel strange to some other countries.

Chinese are hard-working, I can't agree more ! But I must admit it's not for everybody.At the same time I meet lots of colleages & foreign suppliers from all over the world, most of them also are hard-working,in fact they are not Chinese.I remembered the French philosopher--Voltaire said "Work banishes those three great evils : boredom , vice, and poverty." I think not only Chinese would like to work hard & enjoy life.

Any way,I am proud of being the Chinese,I love my motherland,our centuries-old culture & all distillate things.

I am sorry I can't express fluently what I think in English.Hope can find some sincere friend in this forum.I am waiting for you.

All of your impression about Chinese seem very different but I feel something  is very truthful. One day, I helped my daughter to do homework, I saw a new word  Mondialisation.  I don't understand clearly , but I like this way. It's remind me a picture;If   the young take their hands, they will make a big bridge  throughout the world . And if all of us  are hand in hand, we make a round   around the world.That's very interesting!  I appreciate highly  the intelligence. Who does  better  to our life is the most  favorite . I  like Bill Gate  with his computer.It's make me have the chance to meet you. I appreciate highly the technique  of Japanese.  they help my district; to develop into a region of green forests , in order to keep clean air, environment to avoid the disaster.[ As you see waves tidy, flood, earthquake H5n  virus,.....] And a lot of instruments, machines, equipments, tools of China with a low price give me the chance to access with new media, with internet,a thing that I've never  thought before. There is a discrimination about a lot of thing , between two regions, two races, two sexes, ....But If you believe to the future, you will be happy.Every body  should live  in a meaningful life and  there is not the detestation. In my city, Chinese  don't hate Japanese . All of them are respected because of their intelligence, their knowledges.

  Phuong Ninh