Images of Chinese national character: The twenty one Deadly Clichés of Chinese

By Schmidt Lausiz



(1) Self – Important , Selfish , free rider , sponge character , always manager to take advantage of others property , never willing to share what they have .

(2) Lack of seriousness , avoid take responsibility ,make things as cheap and ugly as possible . lack aesthetic taste , lack appreciation of art,
devoid of a soul to endow life with true meaning .

(3) Crafty , good at insidiously use people's sympathy to fishing for money . Full of wiles , never honest and genuine .

(4) Detestable mentality , good at coercing decent people , but fear anyone who overpower them , bizarre combination of ignominious coward and pathetic bully .

(5) Dirty , unhygienic , failure to grasp the notion of cleanness . Chaos , no sense of discipline , always in a state of confusing and disorder . No neatness to speak of .

(6) obsequiousness , emasculate an aura of pathetic minions ,
full of exhibiting servile compliance , master of fawn on foreigners .

(7) Ignorant , self-deceptive character , doesn't understand the world , nor the meaning of their own culture , detestable swagger , full of bravado and lies but foolishness in deed . Use self-deception as a shield to deflect their ignorance .

( No rationality to speak of , sentimental , Superstitious , easily to be deluded by superficial phenomenal , no power to deliver anything sensible other than superstitious self-deception .

(9) Rude , poor breeding behavior . Lewd , shoving and jostling rudely in line, and screaming at each other without politeness. No grace and refinement for a cultured life .

(10) Primitive society , self-sufficient , No concept of making devotion to society .No concept of nation and race , only understanding is family and kinship . Wily character , no trust can be fostered in Chinese society .

(11) Numbness , devoid an heart of being sympathetic , callous , indifferent to injustice and suffering of people , devoid an heart to pursue righteousness .

(12) Feeble character , easily get imposed on , softness in nature and weak submission .

(13) Cheating mentality , avoid put in effort to manifest real ability . Cheap and sneaky theft of other's intellectual work .

(14) Laughable dressing , wearing black leather shoe with white socks , wearing pajama walk around the street .

(15) Self-deceptive , Spraying green dye on withered grass as for achieving their goal for greenaization for the nation .

(16) love Saving face by deliver a plausible sophistry and guile to conceal scandal and demerit .

(17) Spiritually lazy , conservative , no courage and aspiration to embrace new culture , new notion , new idea , but keep circling in a blind alley to practice an outdated Confucianism.

(1 Self-abased , can not foster an balanced view on themselves and foreigners , sever inferiority complex .

(19) Devoid of own conviction , easily to be influenced . Blindly lionize mediocrity as something remarkable .

(20) Unpatriotic , full of bravado and mental masturbation , but reluctant to make even an small sacrifice for the nation , ascribe this to Chinese self-deceptive nature .

(21) Jealousy , resentful by anyone surpass them , resort their hate by detraction and conducting treachery and intrigue to undermine people 『s rank and statue among the society .


這是一個美國留學生到中國留學數年對中國和中國人的看法，在一個博客網偶然發現的。