Originally Posted by
Latindancer
There are different types of intelligence.
Chinese people are generally quite mentally acute, that's for sure.
But there is sometimes a kind of calculation there which I don't really like, but that is not innate...it's born of the type of culture they grow up in. Taiwanese Chinese are the best of them, and the mainlanders, having grown up with communism, are the worst. Paul Theroux rightly described mainlanders as the most cynical people on earth.
Not as bad as the calculation shown by some Isaan women though....that's almost reptilian.