East VS West
Having just moved to Beijing last year, this really explains much of my experiences here with a minimalist approach.
Yang Liu was born in China, studied in Germany. With this duality of traditions, Liu portrays the hilarious stereotypes, which I’m sure many of us can relate to.
No prizes for guessing which is Germany and which is China.
- 05.02.2011 .
- Paul PJ Cheng .
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I like the picture about queue….:))))
I don’t know who came up with this idea first, but I’ve seen this before: http://parisvsnyc.blogspot.com/
These are really quite funny. Of course, very stereotypical, but funny nevertheless.
Frankly I feel like a lot of them are backwards.
I’m Dutch, and I’ve been to Germany several times to visit friends, and I’m very familiar with stereotypical Dutch and German customs.
At the same time, I live in the united states, and as fate would have it, many my best friends in high school are Chinese and I’ve gotten used to the way their Chinese parents and families as a whole do things.
From my experience, in all but the first pair, red should be Chinese.
yeah red ones should be China or the East in general, except for the first pair of course.
I think red is Chinese. The first image is the way the others view that country, so for Chinese (red) the Germans look like the way they are depicted in the first image and vice versa.