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[quote=GUESTHK,338877]>>You'd be surprised to know that most Chinese find themselves inferior to others. It's instilled in them when they are very young, by parents, teachers, and most leadership figures. It's a way to control them and their choices. If you don't believe that you can make these BIG decisions in your life then of course you're going to get counsel from those people you have been trained to trust (your family).

I'm being a very young Chinese and I don't feel very entitled to question your comment very vocally, but I don't get WHY "Chinese think they are inferior". I'm a student and I talk to scholars at university on formal terms, tho. I address myself as an ordinary person (not "your humble student", that kind of Qing-Dynasty pronouns in the Chinese language).

>>she said the gift had to be at least $10,000USD to give her family face.

That's downright materialistic. In Chinese terms, that's promiscuous/materialistic/a golddigger, at least in my opinion. This would sound downright outrageous at least to most younger Hong Kong Chinese (younger than 30, say). In Hong Kong, people are more concerned about buying a flat (several million dollars in our currency, and not easy at all to buy until you get over 30 and married)... then a mere gift. But needless to say, quite a few Hong Kong people (guys) have, as I can see in some forums, a very bigoted view against their female counterparts having relationships with white guys, just because of the alleged golddigging.[/quote]

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