I posted the photo underneath in several WeChat group chats a while ago and waited for reactions. The reactions came and they came massively.
I took the photo from a window a few months ago and it shows the creativity of (Chinese) children. In this highly technological world, in which everyone seems to be staring at some sort of screen, be it a mobile phone, a tablet, a computer, etc. this little girl chose to do something creative while waiting for its mother. All it needed was some water in a puddle. Some others might have jumped into the water and made themselves wet and dirty, but this little girl had a better idea.
The comments in the various group chats can be divided into two main and several subgroups. The two main are Asians and Westerners and the subgroups are Asian men, Asian women, western men, western women, the Americas, central and northern Europeans, eastern Europeans, southern Europeans, Arabs, Africans, etc. You get the picture. However, it all goes back to the cultural background and upbringing of the users.
Women saw this action positively and their comments were also highly positive. Men however, share a different opinion depending on the place of origin. While Asians found it highly romantic, cute, etc, northern Americans and central and northern Europeans found it rather irritating and spoke of society pressure and seeing marriage and finding love as the ultimate goal in life. One user must have read my novel, as he quoted: .... secretly they don’t want the prince of their dreams to drive up on the first date in a rusty Fiat Panda but hope that he gets out of a Porsche and floats elegantly around the car, and that a red carpet is unrolled as he opens the passenger door. Depending on whether you are feminine or masculine, this can be the material of a chick-flick-girl-on-a-horse-novel full of princes, love, hugs and kisses or of soft porn in a late-night private TV-programme ....
Some other men and emancipated women, (there were some Asian ones among them to my surprise), lamented that there's too much pressure on young people to get married and have children at a really young age.
This is true and it happens in many other countries and cultures, not only in China. Chinese people however, seem to be very romantic. If you visit the country or if you watch couples travelling around the world how they act with each other, you will notice that there is a romance between them that could come out of the above mentioned chick-flick novel.
Even the Chinese government is convinced that foreigners come to China to find true love and published an article about it a while ago. I posted about it. My post can be found here (Luv is in the air) and the original article by the Chinese government can be found here.
Most users however agreed that this girl showed creativity and created something out of nothing. Not sure about other Asian cultures, but the Chinese are highly creative and artistic. They dance, sing, draw, paint have a passion for calligraphy and many other things.
I took the photo from a window a few months ago and it shows the creativity of (Chinese) children. In this highly technological world, in which everyone seems to be staring at some sort of screen, be it a mobile phone, a tablet, a computer, etc. this little girl chose to do something creative while waiting for its mother. All it needed was some water in a puddle. Some others might have jumped into the water and made themselves wet and dirty, but this little girl had a better idea.
The comments in the various group chats can be divided into two main and several subgroups. The two main are Asians and Westerners and the subgroups are Asian men, Asian women, western men, western women, the Americas, central and northern Europeans, eastern Europeans, southern Europeans, Arabs, Africans, etc. You get the picture. However, it all goes back to the cultural background and upbringing of the users.
Women saw this action positively and their comments were also highly positive. Men however, share a different opinion depending on the place of origin. While Asians found it highly romantic, cute, etc, northern Americans and central and northern Europeans found it rather irritating and spoke of society pressure and seeing marriage and finding love as the ultimate goal in life. One user must have read my novel, as he quoted: .... secretly they don’t want the prince of their dreams to drive up on the first date in a rusty Fiat Panda but hope that he gets out of a Porsche and floats elegantly around the car, and that a red carpet is unrolled as he opens the passenger door. Depending on whether you are feminine or masculine, this can be the material of a chick-flick-girl-on-a-horse-novel full of princes, love, hugs and kisses or of soft porn in a late-night private TV-programme ....
Some other men and emancipated women, (there were some Asian ones among them to my surprise), lamented that there's too much pressure on young people to get married and have children at a really young age.
This is true and it happens in many other countries and cultures, not only in China. Chinese people however, seem to be very romantic. If you visit the country or if you watch couples travelling around the world how they act with each other, you will notice that there is a romance between them that could come out of the above mentioned chick-flick novel.
Even the Chinese government is convinced that foreigners come to China to find true love and published an article about it a while ago. I posted about it. My post can be found here (Luv is in the air) and the original article by the Chinese government can be found here.
Most users however agreed that this girl showed creativity and created something out of nothing. Not sure about other Asian cultures, but the Chinese are highly creative and artistic. They dance, sing, draw, paint have a passion for calligraphy and many other things.
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