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People socialize with other people. Like a lot. They'll go eat lunch with a group of friends and then head over to the park to discuss business while playing badminton. In the US we're really isolated and Chinese have more of a social life in general.

They also don't care at all what other people around them are doing or thinking. People always stop at the top of the escalator to check their email while people pile up behind them because who cares about the people behind you? People will also just stop walking in the middle of the sidewalk abruptly to check their phone. They don't bother to move over to the side. People will just calmly ride their moped down the sidewalk filled with 100s of people at 30mph because who cares about anyone else? It's like to Chinese people that other people are invisible while they are in their own world. When you speak to them though it is completely different. They actually do give you their full committed attention.

Everyone has a distrust and a disregard for government. If the government is doing like an ID check people will just walk around the barricade and just avoid them. If there is a barricade up that is supposed to keep people out of like a park people will just step over it. Nobody cares about the government and nobody looks to the government for a solution to anything. Government workers wear red bands around their arm to symbolize the communist party. The communist party tries desperately to get attention and love but nobody cares.

It's actually a lot more free in China than the US in many ways as long as you aren't always talking about how you love democracy and want to see the communist party burn. That'll land you in jail but if you want to do just about anything else just go ahead. Nobody is going to stop you. I have a wine vending machine at the entrance to my apartment building that the kids are always using. It's literally a machine on the street that dispenses wine bottles without an ID or anything.

People are really nice! It's like US southern hospitality but the entire country. If you don't instantly have friends in China you are just totally mentally messed up and have no hope.

I'm an American right now in China by choice. It is actually awesome. I can confirm. I shouldn't be telling this to reddit though because you will all come over here and mess it up.

A low wage in China actually goes pretty far when you consider that the average worker pays no income taxes and everything costs half as much because it doesn't have to move very far from the factory down the street. $2 an hour is the equivalent of $7 in the states.

Not all growth in China is fueled by negatives. Some of it is fueled by things that China is doing better than the USA, like lower taxes.

The IRS doesn't need to be fixed, it needs to die. We need to roll out the tanks and tear down the IRS offices.

China is putting the USA to shame in many ways recently. I am tempted to just stay here in China and I may end up doing that.