How traditional culture is destroyed explains why Chinese have bad manners

If you have been to Taiwan you cannot help but notice the stark contrast of manners between the Taiwanese and mainland Chinese.

I was born in China but raised in Singapore and Canada. Whenever people complained about "chinese tourists" it always shocked me because my family and friends are so considerate when traveling. But I understood when I traveled back to China. I was stranded at a train station one day and had to fight off literal hordes to get another train ticket to Hong Kong for my flight back to Canada. Everyone was pushing and complaining I was taking too long. I took 5 min because I had to explain that I can't read and that my situation was urgent, and it was longer to process with a passport holder rather than someone with a chinese resident card. There was also an instance of a airplane attendant from a local airline ripping off my earphones out of my ears without warning when I was just sitting at my seat listening to music during boarding. I even started bleeding a bit where she pulled it, realized this later. She then incited the other passengers to "punish" me. I was 25 at the time but I look very young, and I was being bombarded by dozens of other people sermoning me like a child. The airplane intendant was very smug that I couldn't defend myself as my chinese vocabulary was not fluent and noone could understood me expressing myself in english. Her colleague had to intervene when I started crying. It was actually horrifying. Worst travel experiences ever

I went to Beijing when I asked for directions in the airport people were not even look at me. After I visited Taiwan people were very friendly and polite and supportive.

When I had my house for sale I had Chinese people come in and two of the groups were so rude to me in my own house. And one woman kept knocking on my walls and door upsetting my dog. Well in the end I received 3 offers but because they were from the rude Chinese people I decided not to sell my house out of concern for my neighbors. I'm still here.

I used to work at a beachfront restaurant in California. We had many different tourist groups from Asia. We had Japanese, Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese, and Hong Kong Chinese as well as Chinese from Malaysia and Singapore. All were generally respectful, courteous and friendly. Mainland Chinese were a different story. The arrogance, sense of entitlement, lack of personal hygiene(especially from a civilization that developed medical advancements)was really shocking to be around. I have a lot of praise and respect for Chinese culture and civilization, but the behavior of Chinese tourists needs a serious upgrade. Respect for other people and their cultures and traditions should be honored. Whether you are American, Chinese, Indian, Russian, Nigerian, etc. Be good to your hosts.

CCP is the most responsible culprit for removing 5,000 years elegant culture.

I had the pleasure of working for a Chinese company for 7 years here in Germany. The Chinese company had bought ours 25 year old successfully micropropagation lab and wanted to copy the techniques. It was a drastic change in work condition. We were constantly at odds with our Chinese boss, constantly screaming at eachother. What surprised our new boss most was that we often said 'No'. She was not used to that. But she was asking for things which were destroying the quality and which went against the western work ethics. The company was closed last year after over thirty years of success. We had lost most of our customers due to our declining quality and new aggressive behaviour towards them

My wife and I went to Italy last fall. I can honestly say that the Chinese tour groups are by far the most rude. Many Chinese individuals would cut through the other tour groups, yelling to their travel mates, interrupting the tour-guides lectures. Anyone with any manners would go around the other tour groups but they would just walk right through them like they were some inconvenience. I didn't see anyone else doing that the ten days we were there. Rude, abysmal behavior.

I talked to a Chinese engineer who helped build a dam in my country. He says that the Chinese tourists you see, the vast majority of them go on group tours because that is their reward for reaching or exceeding their quotas. Many of them are from rural China. He makes no secret of his disdain for how those people besmirch the image of Chinese people, but he also understands that the CCP made them this way.

I live in Guangzhou for 2 years for teaching foreign language, 2 reason of this " bad manner". 1) A child is born and parents way tooooooooo busy to take care of them due to 996, so they leave them with grandparents. 2) One child policy, child do not know how to share or care because is only child, they will think everything is mine.

As a airline flightcrew, We dreaded working the Beijing-US flight. On a 15 hour flight, they throw their trash on the floor for anyone to step on, climb over seats, and the bathrooms -- OMG. "SH!T in the sinks and P!SS on the walls.🤢 Just filthy behavior. We have our mandarin speaking crew to make announcements in how they should 'be clean'. Fell on deaf ears.

I never really noticed this until I was asked by my uncle to go as a tour guide/translator for a day for a couple of Chinese donors to their church, and while it was obvious they weren't really quite rich but had enough dough to spend on a donation, I couldn't help but feel annoyed during the trip as I was the only one who could understand what they were saying, and they were dropping really rude comments about the locals and the places despite knowing a translator was among them. And based on how they talked, it was obvious they hadn't been too far out of their own village and they judged everything they saw was beneath them, which is everything about my country. Glad I never had to see them again after that day

I was treated poorly by a Chinese student who attended the same university as me. She didn’t like the United States and she made that very clear. She was extremely rude and arrogant. I was so surprised since, we were barely acquainted. Sadly, a good percentage of students who attended the university tried to avoid the Chinese students whenever possible. Such a shame.

The lack of manners was also seen in Russian tourists in Europe after the collapse of communism. in fact it was so bad that some restaurants banned them in spite of the money they brought in. It was said that they were very rude to the waiters which was the last thing you would have expected in the classless communist society .

My Chinese coworker who is in his 60s has a very good answer for this. He from time to time will tell us very interesting eye opening things about Mao's red guards back in the Big Leap days at lunch hour. The red guards were a sizable portion of people of his generation who were coerced to commit despicable acts against their own friends and families and traditional values. Its very tragic because after being used purely as political pawns they got pushed to far away rural areas to cultivate and "revolutionize". Those people then grew old and raised bad children. When China entered their industrialization phase, the government started to buy lands and make those people millionaires overnight. And these "new money" then started traveling outside the country... The conversation came up because he said there are more and more genz kids supporting communism and that worried him because he sees himself going through the same emotions like back in the day.

As a westerner having lived in China I quickly came to the realization its a dog eat dog rat race, contracts and agreements/deals mean nothing if someone else will offer a single extra yuan. While I did meet some wonderful people, for the most part...courtesy? Zero, compassion for their fellow citizens? Zero. They'd kill the last of a species if it meant even a minor profit. Its a very frustrating country to say the least. The only way I made it through some days was reminding myself I could leave at any time. Food and drink was great though. 😅

In 2014 I stayed at the Hilton hotel in Thailand where they had an excellent all you can eat buffet. The guests and staff were friendly and polite until 2 buses of Chinese tourists arrived, I have never ever seen such rude selfish behaviour it was disgusting, especially their treatment towards the Thai staff.

It's like a society being robbed of their soul.

When I was in Hang Kong a few years ago, a couple of Mainland Chinese tried to push their way through in a line we were waiting in . Well I didn’t let them and boy did those two ladies get upset, screaming and yelling but to no avail. They cause problems here in Australia

While I enjoyed this video, I did not walk away with any explanation for the poor manners. Other countries have had their cultures destroyed and it did not result in this dog eat dog mentality, respectfully, I think the "lost culture" excuse is a poor scapegoat.