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What Poland thinks about China [27]
I think lots of people from Poland, especially from smaller cities and from the countryside, are pretty ignorant about Asians, they don't see any difference between, for instance, Chinese and Japanese culture.
Err... what? Arrogance and ignorance isn't limited to inhabitants of small cities and rural areas.
On a global/political level they feel reluctant to China for some events such as those that are happening in Tibet. And because there's still a lot of hatred in here towards the communism, we are pretty biased about Chinese goverment, especially when we hear about jailing of some political opponents, or internet restrictions every now and then. Not mentioning the past..
CCP and Chinese government performance on minorities issue deserves in worldwide condemn. Tibet is only the most known example.
As somebody mentioned above, China is a well known source of cheap copies of western products, also fake ones. Sometimes this sentence " made in China " is used as an insult, when you call your friends goods like that, which you think are of poor quality. There's also slight fear after recent cases of poisoned milk or kitchen tools imported to Poland.
Quoted for the truth
Beside that, Chinese culture connected tightly to Chinese rich history is really admired, if somebody makes the attemp to read something about it, or visit China. In newspapers China is usually praised for its economic strategies that make it an Asian Tiger in these times of economic crisis.
Chinese culture is one of world's perils. The sad fact is that only part of it is protected.
It's kind of sad that only Japan found better ways to propagate it's culture through channels such as manga or anime in Poland, China doesn't seem to have these kind of tools at it's disposal.
Japan hasn't lost its identity under US occupation and rapid industrial development and modernization after WW2. The problem with China and Chinese is they want be like everybody else.
