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[quote=MARRIE,410482]other source: “Shanghainese have gone from arrogance to embarrassment to a new protectiveness,” adds Jiang. “Now, we have people who are popular who feel it is important to protect Shanghainese, because schools do not allow it to be used as an official language. So there is a movement led by people like Zhou Libo.” Up till a few years ago, xiawuning, or countryside people, was a popular derisive adjective for things and people alike, but it has since been shooed from the common parlance. Peng suggests that the stereotypical Shanghainese snobbery with a reputation for superficial Westernization has receded, replaced by a healthier confidence and pride. “A lot of people have immigrated to Shanghai. Most of them, especially the white collars, graduated from universities here but are not Shanghainese and don't speak the dialect. But now they are not poor, and you cannot look down on them. Shanghai has changed a lot.” Echoes Jiang, “In the ’80s, if you didn’t speak Shanghainese, it was hard to get by in Shanghai. Now there are a lot of New Shanghainese, and their position is high.” What has not changed about Shanghainese culture is the linglong (玲珑)-ness of Haipai : a focus on exquisite detail, perfection and precision, be it in film or art or music, along with a focus on the personal, intimate and familiar, rather than the broad, politicized strokes of northern China. “I just think that movies should be more literary, not with simple characters and not fictional, but reflecting real life,” muses Peng, who has refused to move to the Northern film capital. “I have tried to work with Beijing people, but it is difficult to immigrate to another culture, even if all in China. In Beijing, people’s working relationships are very difficult. I think Beijingers are more warm, and Shanghainese are more rational. Beijingers are easy to get close to quickly; Shanghainese keep their distance, but when they say yes they mean it. In Beijing, people say yes but mean no. Beijingers are easy to be friends with; Shanghainese are easy to work with.” [/quote]
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