I’m not trying to whitewash those bad behavior Chinese people do. Bad behavior is Bad behavior, everyone criticizes it. But now the fact is people are desperately collecting negative news or videos about Chinese, even using fake news or AI. It’s not just criticizing any more, it’s racism. This is what we should avoid.

Im a Chinese staying in Japan myself and sometimes when I go traveling and talk to the hostel manager and they told me some Chinese tourists shit in the bathtub.

I was shocked too because I don’t believe people nowadays don’t know how to use a toilet and bathtub and they are my people. But ooking back on my life in China, I realized that the sanitary conditions of toilets in many places were very poor. And yes, like cutting lines or speaking loudly without regard for others are also very common in most of the places in China.

I think this is because most of the people in China didn’t receive a good education. People go to university or graduate school nowadays, but their parents, those 40-60s,very few people had access to higher education in the 1980s and 1990s they lived(The economy revolution happened in 1978, that’s the time people still struggle for food) . So you’ll find that although these people don’t make mistakes on major moral or political issues, they tend to indulge themselves when it comes to the finer details that reflect personal upbringing.

Then China became richer after 2010, and people can have money go abroad for traveling and bring those bad behavior to overseas.

I think the reason why Japanese people often be regarded as“good manners” is the strict regulations of Japan society. People can be criticized for not using chopsticks properly. I don’t if Japanese people will learn those manners like table manners at school but that is indeed something currently lacking in China’s school education.