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Originally Posted by Dottore
See Todd's comments.
There's very little sense of privacy or intimacy. Everything is discussed freely with friends and relatives—which can be very disturbing if you don't expect this.
Also, and at the risk generalizing, I have yet to meet someone from the mainland who has a highly developed sense of humor. Slip on a banana peel—and that's hilarious. Anything else is entirely lost.
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The first part I have to concur with fully. When I was with the in-laws in China a few weeks ago, it was really frustrating to have my every utterance immediately translated into Chinese for them, when I was really just thinking out loud to my wife only.
However, I couldn't disagree more with the second part. I have met very few Mainlanders who didn't have an excellent sense of humor and I suspect it's even better if you can function in their language. The first Mainlander I dated could have been a stand-up commedienne. She was a riot. I'll never forget her quip when I took her to a PCA DE and she said, "These cars all look alike. Like white people."