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[quote=GUEST46202,388729]I am spanish and live in Spain. There's a lot of chinese people living here. Even just in 100 meters around my house, they manage two coffee shops, three supermarkets, and, of course, 3 or 4 chinese restaurants. Even people see and talk to them every day at their work, nobody has a chinese friend and it's hard to find an interacial couple. Even there's a lot of them with black or northafrican people.

so, people in Spain has no idea of the real life of chinese, even maybe there's a million of them living with us. And the misunderstanding is mutual. A month ago, a chinese providor of my company in an casual conversation asked me if we, spanish men, were allowed to have four wives. I told her not, we are a country with a catholic majority and it's strictly forbideden by laws too.

I think eastern and western people need to know each other better.The general idea in Europe is that China is really the third world. And myself, even I must travel every 3 or 4 months to China and my first trip was 20 years ago, I think China is in the third world too, but 20 years ago, maybe they were in the fifth world. And the most important is not where China is now, but what's the tendence and the forecast.

People than knew China 20 years ago, maybe would have the same opinion than mine. And this is due to the hard work of chinese people. I have no doubt in a future (a near future) with China as the strogest country economically or financially, but I think they need a social revolution as heavy as their economical revolution was.

Chinese women's roll is completely unacceptable, the social protection does not exist and the salary, even for a spezialiced worker is not enough for a decent life. But they are in this way to improve. I am sure.[/quote]

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