Let me continue this China topic.
1. Which city am I living? Do I like the culture and do I like the people?
你好！我住在一个南方的城市。文化--肯定喜欢，因为我是个中国迷。：）亚文化--不太喜欢。人民--有些人好，有些--不好。:-) 谢谢！ (For those who don't understand Chinese language: I live in a Southern Chinese city. Well, about the Chinese culture -- of course I do like it, because I am a Chinese fan, but I don't like very much the sub-culture.) About the people -- some persons are good, some -- not good. No surprise. It depends of the concrete person, not of the nationality.
2. Would I mind to detail the specific aspects of culture/subculture I like/dislike? (Also, what science am I doing?)
About the science -- mostly philosophy (it's my major (and my Master's is at Philosophical anthropology); according to some points of view the philosophy is not a science, but a form of culture, but I think that nowadays it's also a part of the humanitarian science); Well, I have also strong interests in linguistics (Altaistics), psychology, biology and history, and so on.
About the culture -- I like Chinese music, Chinese philosophy (some, not all), Chinese food, Chinese aesthetics and Chinese kung-fu.
And now, about the sub-culture phenomenons (I'll mention just some, because it's hard to mention and to know all of them. Some of them vary from place to place!) -- So, I dislike things like this:
- you 'must' drink hard alcohol (the most popular in China is baijiu/bai-jiu, in Chinese: '白酒'), if you're with friends or they will think you disrespect them. I do not drink hard alcohol (if it's not just a part of some cocktail) and I think that drinking hard alcohol is something very not necessary for showing respect. There are so many other and healthy ways to show your respect, except drinking 50-60% alcohol!
- pointing to the foreigners and screaming 'LAO-WAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII' ('老外' in Chinese is 'foreigner') and similar behavior (for example pointing without screaming, discussing their appearance in front of them or next to them, and others).
- the thinking of some Chinese that 'foreigner = rich; Chinese = poor' OR/AND 'foreigner = open and limitless in their human sexual behavior; Chinese = very shy and very traditional up to pure virginity' OR/AND 'foreigner = stupid, amoral, jerk; Chinese = wise, smart, ideal' OR/AND 'West/Westerners = ideal, China/Chinese = very bad' OR/AND 'Foreigners = AIDS, Chinese = no AIDS at all!' ... A lot, really... Probably I'm missing something important.
Oh yes, I remembered something funny -- there was an English corner some years ago in another Southern Chinese city. There were many Chinese people from all around China (not only Southern Chinese), and a Chinese young woman working in some hotel over there (I don't know what exactly) asked me about Tibet (Xi Zang in Chinese, i.e. 西藏, more about it, in Chinese:
http://baike.baidu.com/link?url=rpUw_qLrn0Uhn5pPtAfbTDCOtDliG1_h0PUgYM2KlgN9o7Zb78IaJcsQ4B-6bgTUZU150_-9GUGQEtFhA2HmKGWu0CEl0gPfP8G-mYXY2W3) and I answered her that I think it was a part of China (at least since the Manchurian era, i.e. Qing dynasty -- more about this dynasty in English:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty ) and now it's a part of China, too. And she, at once, started to criticize me how is that possible; I am 'a Westerner', but I can speak like this!' (in her, sorry to say, idiotic opinion, all the Westerners must be something like: anti-communists, anti-Chinese, etc!). So many uneducated (or not enough educated) people with a lot of stereotypes and prejudices... and they're the creators/generators/supporters of many sub-culture/sub-cultures, which is something, more or less, like an opposite of the great Chinese culture.
I'll try to continue this China topic in the future! Thanks for reading it!
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