为什么中国人变得这么物质？ [美国媒体]

How did Chinese people become so materialistic?

为什么中国人变得这么物质？



Flora Ding, lives in China
Answered 12h ago
I’m not a materialistic person even I’m from a poorer region of China. There are people who are materialistic, but not all Chinese are so.
During the last decades, China has gone through a big reform, which makes it change from a ideological society to a more profit driving society. Plus, communism encourages the mass not to follow any God, therefore, many don’t really have any beliefs. The reality to many is that the people with wealth or power are respected, the rich can have better medical care, better education, better living conditions. The opening market allows more Chinese to see the world and how “nice” life can be, so we see millions of Chinese tourists going abroad for holidays every year. When you ask a Chinese what makes Chinese life better, he/she would most likely to say it’s because open and reform policy or stable economy development, not thanks to God or anything. This is a common propaganda in the country, that economy development is everything and the foundation of everything.

我不是一个物质的人，虽然我来自中国的贫困地区。有些人却是很物质，但不是所有中国人都物质。过去几十年来，中国经历了一次巨大的变革，从一个意识形态社会变成了一个更加追求利润的社会。此外，还鼓励大众不要信仰任何的上帝，所以很多人都没有信仰。在很多人看来，现实是有钱有权的人收到了尊重，富人可以拥有更好的医保，更好的教育，更好的生活条件。开放的市场让更多中国人看到了世界，也看到了生活可以多美好，所以我们看到无数的中国游客每年都去国外度假。当你问一个中国人是什么让他们的生活变好时，TA会说是改革开放政策或者稳定的经济发展，而不是归功于上帝之类的。这就是这个国家的普遍基调，经济发展是一切，也是一切事物的基础。



Tong Zou
15h ago
“Are the Chinese more materalistic than other nations?” I would say so. I lived in Silicon Valley for many years where many billionaires live. Most of them wear hoodies and sweatshirts to work. They drive Priuses (and maybe Teslas). On the contrary all the mainland Chinese kids I seen like to drive their Mercedes and Lexuses everywhere (even if they don’t know how to properly park them) and wear all that gawdy designer stuff. Also, Trump didn’t get elected because he was rich, its because he appealed to the working class in a way that Hillary could not. Remember - the working class hated rich people (elites). They blamed the global elites for all their problems.

“中国人比其他国家的人更加物质吗？”我认为确实是这样。我在硅谷居住了多年，那里也居住着很多亿万富翁。其中大部分都穿着卫衣去上班。他们开普锐斯以及特斯拉。相反，我看到的中国大陆孩子喜欢开奔驰和雷克萨斯，穿的都是名牌服装。此外，川普不是因为富有才当选的，而是因为他接近工人阶级的方式和希拉里不一样。记住，工人阶级讨厌富人（精英）。他们将自己的所有问题都归咎于全球精英。



NOVA CLEM
Answered Feb 7
Face - they like to show they are rich in front of others, if they don't do that, people might look them down.
They like to compare with others. Material shows the social status so they like fancy handbags cars…. More than anything just to show off.
Previous decades Chinese people were so poor living under the poor condition. It was so hard to make a living. Under some wars, some traditional culture was lost like being humble.. Knowledgeable people have already gone or fled to abroad. Nowadays, when they are getting rich, they like to let everyone knows. In China, since people are materialistic. It is easy to get some girls with fancy cars.
That's the way they are

面子问题，他们喜欢在他人面前炫耀自己很富有，如果不这么做，可能会被人看不起。他们喜欢和他人比较。物质能表明社会地位，所以他们喜欢昂贵的包包和汽车，主要就是为了炫耀。前面几十年，中国人非常贫穷，很难维生。而且一些传统价值丢失了，比如谦虚。有学识的人都去世了或者逃出国了。如今，在他们富有后，他们希望所有人都知道。在中国，由于人们是物质主义的，所以用豪车就能钓到某些女孩。