hawkhao  +  15539 Wed, 10 Dec 03 04:41 PM Are the Chinese people unique? How can we compare the Chinese with other groups? Are the Chinese more concerned with "face" than other people? How can we explain the relative academic success of immigrant Chinese students? What is the impact of learning an ographic script on the Chinese people's way of thinking and perceiving? Are the Chinese more or less family centered than other national groups? How can we understand Chinese negotiating techniques? hawkhao Joined on Wed, Dec 10 2003 New Member 02

	Bubr  +  15592 Thu, 11 Dec 03 12:24 PM Hello hawkhao! To tell the truth, the Chineese people are quite a mystery to me. I think they are a) hard workers, b) tending to live and act in groups (according to the Chineese tourists I had observed), and c) a bit insulated from the outer world, as the foreing politics of China is. But that is only what I imagine basing on several facts I know, I don't have an experience of communication with the Chineese. Bubr Joined on Mon, Nov 10 2003 Full Member 437

	deepa  +  16473 Fri, 19 Dec 03 10:51 PM Chinese people is peaceful, hardworking and easily contented. They respect elders, love children and are patient with their fellows. Chinese in general are reserve and humble. They believe in harmony and never look for confrontation. deepa Joined on Tue, Nov 18 2003 Pondicherry ,India Regular Member 848 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance!

	afg-girl  +  25972 Fri, 19 Mar 04 08:01 PM They r soo smart ..........................in my school there are lots of Chinese pple the all get like 90 or 95% soo I think they r so smart ,,,,,,, no wonder y I hate them lol just joking I am not racist afg-girl Joined on Sun, Feb 29 2004 New Member 05

	bratannia  +  27554 Sun, 11 Apr 04 05:06 PM I've heard that the pictographic script tends to help people manipulate symbols in mental space and thus makes them smarter in math (because in many math operations symbols are similarly manipulated). I don't know if it's true, though. The one interesting effect I do know is that the script tends to force most overseas Chinese people to integrate into local societies in the second generation. If you move to another country and have kids, it's not so hard to teach those kids to speak and write your original language -- except that if it's Chinese or Japanese, learning to read and write is too difficult to do as an after-school project for all but the most brilliant. I heard a story about a very good young Cantonese-speaking actress from Vancouver, a second generation Chinese-Canadian, who easily passed an audition for a major part in a Hong Kong movie that was being filmed in Canada. She looked to be set for stardom: then they handed her the script! She couldn't read a word of it. M se jih -- didn't read characters. Deui m jyuh! (Sorry!) Personally I think we should make Cantonese the third national language of Canada (along with English and French), but written in Roman (i.e., ordinary, English-type) letters. Just so everyone in Canada wouldn't have to study characters for 10 years to learn to read a Chinese newspaper (though it would be fun for some, I admit.) Some of the words don't have official Chinese characters anyways. Of course, then we'd all have to agree how to romanize it. I like the Yale transcription, but then hawkhao would have to settle for being hohkhaau. bratannia Joined on Fri, Apr 9 2004 Amsterdam Junior Member 66