bballspike

There's definitely a cultural barrier against promiscuity. The Chinese culture is much more conservative compared to America's. Also there's a lot less opportunity. AKA there's always someone in your house while you're in high school (mom, dad, grandma, grandpa). For students in college, it's more acceptable, though still nothing like it is here. However, I know I was very attractive to Chinese girls in general. I'm tall, American, have blonde(ish) hair, can speak Chinese. Chinese girls were giggling around me all the time, asked to take pictures with me, etc. I never was really attracted to Chinese girls in China. I just don't find them as attractive as other types of girls. However, once I got to America I have seen some extremely attractive Asian girls. Thus I have concluded that attitude and clothes make a huge difference on whether asian girls are attractive.

Oh yeah, it's one of my favorite things to do. The look on their face when they see me speaking Mandarin. When I'm in that situation I always think "How am I going to blow this person's mind?" haha

I live in the south so people are really outwardly friendly here, though a lot of times they dont really mean it. ("How are you?" "Oh I'm great thanks!") 99% of the time when people say fluff like that they dont mean it. In China people wouldn't say hello to other Chinese randomly on the street just because they are walking by each other, like we do in the South. However, people were extremely friendly to me, because they meant it. They really did want to talk to me "practice their english." Etc. So I'd say the Chinese are more genuine in their friendships, while Americans are more friendly on the outside (though not necessarily meaning what they say). I guess this is in regards to strangers. Once you are friends with Chinese or Americans I'd say they're equally friendly

EDIT: so apparently some people think that I said I live in South China, and I think it's because of this comment. I currently live in the southern region of the united states. I never lived in south China. Sorry for the confusion, but check context next time :)

People definitely treated me differently. When I was real young (1-5) my mom would ride this tricycle-bike (have no idea what the name for it is) with a mini truck bed in the back to the market to buy groceries. She would belt-in me and my brothers so we wouldnt fall out. All the people at the market would come out and want to touch my hair (I was really blonde) and hold me. Many of them had never seen foreigners before us and were enamored with us.

1. I miss the culture: miss speaking Chinese, miss eating Chinese food, miss the awesome holidays, miss the people.
2. Nope :)
3. I like the freedoms everyone can have in America. AKA, driving, Speech, religion,etc.
4. Proabably not. I love traveling and if a good job opportunity arises for me outside of the US I would take it.
5. When I was little I used to think everyone in the US was fat lazy and stupid. After spending some time here I realized that's definitely not the case :P There's lots of intelligent people here, though I will say Chinese people are generally harder workers and skinnier. lol