irvinehomeshopper said:
Great comment from IHO's link:
"Second, my parents once described the good manner of people around 1950s. But things changed after the 10 years Cultural revolution in China. People decried, defamed, abused and even fought with each other. No one trusted any people even their own family at that time. Morality was totally torn down. People became selfish and myopic. Some people won't care about the public environment because it's not their home. Their home could be very clean but they would spit on street, drop garbage and etc"
The key point of the link, written by a maninland Chinese, is that Chinese people are not naturally manners impaired, it was caused by Communism. Mainland Chinese had good manners before the 1950s? Of course, they did. Those manlanders were educated under the Republic of China (which is still the government in Taiwan today). Singaporeans and Hong Kongers have good manners, they were educated under the British. After the Communists ran the ROC off to Taiwan, they demanded that all Chinese, especially city dwellers, to "learn from the peasants." After several generations of learning from the peasants, you now have people pissing in other peoples bushes.
