Chinese....
By ChiaraInThePond. Wednesday, 5. December 2007, 05:26:24
I am so amazed about this country... And even more by people living here.
I am (almost) the only foreigner left in the office (only one for the "bridge the world" program).
I went in here trying to get rid of some pre assumptions. Trying to do "tabula rasa" in my brain to be ready for a full immersion in what it was expecting me.
But... but it's difficult to get rid of pre-assumptions.
I have been overwhelmed by the way people can take of you. Of the friendship and understanding they offer to you, even you are in all aspects a "stranger".
I've discovered chinese people are as close to their family as italians :O. They have strong sense of belonging to "la famiglia".
I have been able to go in so many wonderfull and amazing places, even just with my mind... And I am not speaking of the great wall or other turistic attractions. I speak about places where people live their own lives every day. I've seen them working, crying, smiling, laughing of the same things as I do and sometimes totally different. I tried to listen people even if we do not speak the same language.
We had quite a lot of laugh and then you understand, or, better, you feel, you are the same people and that there is really nothing important that divides cultures.
My experience in here is getting near the end. But I am keeping in my mind, a bit jelously, what it has given to me hoping to fully understand it and being able to transfer what I am learning
I am (almost) the only foreigner left in the office (only one for the "bridge the world" program).
I went in here trying to get rid of some pre assumptions. Trying to do "tabula rasa" in my brain to be ready for a full immersion in what it was expecting me.
But... but it's difficult to get rid of pre-assumptions.
I have been overwhelmed by the way people can take of you. Of the friendship and understanding they offer to you, even you are in all aspects a "stranger".
I've discovered chinese people are as close to their family as italians :O. They have strong sense of belonging to "la famiglia".
I have been able to go in so many wonderfull and amazing places, even just with my mind... And I am not speaking of the great wall or other turistic attractions. I speak about places where people live their own lives every day. I've seen them working, crying, smiling, laughing of the same things as I do and sometimes totally different. I tried to listen people even if we do not speak the same language.
We had quite a lot of laugh and then you understand, or, better, you feel, you are the same people and that there is really nothing important that divides cultures.
My experience in here is getting near the end. But I am keeping in my mind, a bit jelously, what it has given to me hoping to fully understand it and being able to transfer what I am learning
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