Shanghaiist: Video of the Day: Hospital visit with Chinese characteristics

guest

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:59:32 +0800

GET WELL SOON! btw: they even smoke beside babies and spitting in the hospital is common too. they turn every place in a dirty market. They have been always like this and they will never change.

guest

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:47:28 +0800

Guest number 3, I think you are being a bit myopic and overly apologetic... Being a Mexican American, we usually display a lot of what you mistakenly attribute to the Chinese in a Western/Chinese dichotomy. At least in my household we don't define comfort or relaxation by solitude of quiet and we respect and care for our elders. We just have the good sense and manners to keep it out of a hospital. So spare me the "we's" in your article. Speak for yourself anytime you want to be an apologist or shill for what are inexcusable and crude behaviors exhibited by SOME Chinese. Don't include the "West" in your self-loathing. I think Nanheyangrouchuan has a little gold star sticker for you for your use of the word neo-colonial. Pretty appropriate for your level of usage and understanding. Don't ask me where he is going to put it... Xiaonanhe

JoeR

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:48:37 +0800

While we can agree or disagree about whether or not crowds are helpful or harmful in hospitals, can we at least agree that smoking there is rude, and not to mention a generally s#!t idea?

guest

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:17:30 +0800

That's VIBRANT chinese characteristics to you! nanheyangrouchuan i dont know if youre serious or not. i mean it certainly looks like a jubilant get together in the tradition of chinese visitations but it is far from 'vibrant'. vibrancy implies merriness on the event occurred but this is a hospital situation where there are sick people and diseases. i mean it'll be easily transmittable when coming in close contact. i think their relatives should keep at a safe distance to avoid catching diseases its dangerous.

guest

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:38:13 +0800

I don't see what's odd. Chinese don't tend define comfort or relaxation by solitude or quiet. They usually LIKE family structures and the accompanying noise and commotion. If they can't be home with the comfort of their family- well the family will come to them. They should learn from us wise round eyes and learn to leave aging relatives to rot in nursing homes? Those Chinese families might look upon a western hospital with the same disbelief, there in a strange place, sick, with strange unfamiliar food and little or no family to comfort you? Why would you abandon a sick person to the oversight of total strangers? The neo-colonial "lets laugh at the locals" game gets old and tends to rely on conveniently forgetting how we really do things at home much of the time. We don't visit Uncle Albert in the hospital because we are worried about his recovery if he has too may visitors, we don't visit because honestly we don't give a shit. So why ridicule people with solid family structures for the occasional commotion that results?

brentandrews

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:30:52 +0800

I don't know if that was as funny as I thought it was. I watched it without sound as my speakers are dead. I cracked up when those guys lit their smokes over by the window. As if.

guest

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:31:40 +0800

That's VIBRANT chinese characteristics to you! nanheyangrouchuan