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Definitely China.
They are all definitely Asian, but China is just so massive, and such a world to their own.
I have only been to China of those mentioned, but a previous post about there being more gender equality in China vs Japan makes me think the Japanese are still pretty fuedal in their ways. Their social structure sounds almost as traditional as that of the Middle East, despite their high-tech image.
I suppose my original question was asking more about how different the individual people - who make up the society - are to the West, most specifically the English-speaking west - and from my research the Chinese people seem more 'Western thinking' than the Japanese.
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I was talking to some guy who was an amateur expert on Okinawa, where he had lived for many years. He said that they and the Japanese are two very different and distinct cultures, and that the Okinawans really didn't like the Japanese, who would come in and try to teach them their strict ways - for example bowing was very complex according to social status, and was actually done to certain number of degrees - a boss or social superior might bow only 10 degrees for example, while a subordinate would be required to bow 22 degrees (or something like that, I don't remember the exact numbers).
He said Okinawans are much more relaxed - more like Americans, and just don't cooperate much with that sort of thing.
But then, you posted on the other thread("Your Opinion of Life in Seoul") that life in Korea felt the most foreign to you.
So..if that's the case, what made you feel China to be the least westernized asian nation among the listed countries?
They're both quite 'foreign'.
I just know Korea so much better than anywhere else I lived in including Japan.
China and Korea had a ton of similarities. Tons.
If I were to think in 'least westernized', I guess I was thinking of 'exposure to westerners'. Koreans just have a higher cost of living, and seem to get around a lot more.
China just has tons and tons and tons of Chinese absolutely everywhere, even now, that act like they've never ever seen a white person before in their entire life.
Korea use to be like that when I first went in 1996, but now, Koreans are use to white people being all over the place.
China still doesn't.
Both seem pretty 'foreign' to me though....Chinese also have very little English whatsoever.
China just has tons and tons and tons of Chinese absolutely everywhere, even now, that act like they've never ever seen a white person before in their entire life.
Actually the Chinese act like they have never seen a black person (especially when the black person is together with a white person).
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Actually the Chinese act like they have never seen a black person (especially when the black person is together with a white person).
This is not unique to the Chinese. Living in America or Australia you forget most of the world is made up of pretty homogenous ethnic groups living side by side. A Chinese person in some village in the Congo would be treated the same; with curiosity.
And that's because many Chinese people have never seen a black person.
This is not unique to the Chinese. Living in America or Australia you forget most of the world is made up of pretty homogenous ethnic groups living side by side. A Chinese person in some village in the Congo would be treated the same; with curiosity.
And that's because many Chinese people have never seen a black person.
Except in an NBA broadcast perhaps. After all, Basketball is HUGE in China!
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Except in an NBA broadcast perhaps. After all, Basketball is HUGE in China!
In real life, I mean. Apart from a basketball player who played for the NBL, the first time I met an African American person was in America. Most black people here (in Oz) are from Africa.
This is not unique to the Chinese. Living in America or Australia you forget most of the world is made up of pretty homogenous ethnic groups living side by side. A Chinese person in some village in the Congo would be treated the same; with curiosity.
And that's because many Chinese people have never seen a black person.
What was more interesting was when i was in Spain on vacation. One of my friends who travelled with me asked the waiter his name. The waiter replied and asked my friend(Chinese-American) his name. My friend replied with "Roberto". The waiter gave him a strange puzzled look.
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