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Thread: Difference in Handling 'Mobility" between Chinese and Americans

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[quote=ICEBLUE,247389]Different from the Westerners( typically Americans), Chinese people prefer immobility. In America, mobiltity is the theme of life. I have met quite a lot of foreign friends who consistently tellls me that they prefer moving from one place to another. In particularly, when they are young, they seldom consider settling  down somewhere.

It is quite common to see that a family of three generations has inhabited in several places: Grandparents might have ever lived in New  York; the father's generation might live in California; while the grandsons' generation might live in Florida. 
 
   Americans' preference of mobility might have sth to do with the origin of the nation. In essence,  America is a country of immigrants. Since the settlement era, the puritans came to the new land to escape political and religious persecution. Gradually, mobility became part of their lives, which was rooted in the hearts of later generations of Americans.

Wheras, Chinese people did value immobility and stability. In traditional Chinese people's minds, migrating is viewed as  a kind of failure to maintain a living.  Migrating workers are usuall forced to migrate to some ailien places. In China, it is common to see that in a gathered town, most of people had settled there for several generations or even several centuries.

The different attitudes toward migration or mobility mirror the fundamental 
difference in the two people's mentality. One is untraveled heart, the other is adventurous.[/quote]

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