Comments on: Culture – East vs West…

By: Sherburn

Sherburn — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:29:59 +0000

I enjoy the art Simon, I can see why people could misconstrue it as racist, but that’s part of its appeal. The dichotomy present in each piece is very engaging and thought provoking.

However, in reading your comments, I’m sorry to point out that you’re an esoteric tool.

By: eggialpha

eggialpha — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:37:49 +0000

This is definitely a generalization and doesn’t fit every case, but that’s to be expected when data is simplified to exhibit a percieved trend. I’m glad people have pointed out the artist’s point of view. The touchy aspect of this is that it’s drawn from a specific point of view and therefore biased, but that’s also to be expected. I’m curious at how differently these things would be portrayed if it was created by someone from a specifically “Eastern” point of view.

By: Bob Loosemore

Bob Loosemore — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:45:50 +0000

How nice to read through so many neurotic ramblings above and come to ‘One World Wonder’s sane comment. The generalizations may be fairly accurate of average behaviour, I suspect they are, but many could apply to the average Greek in my experience. There are differences between the way people of different cultures behave in general, and humorous graphics are a clever way to show them up. Sadly many people cannot deal with either generalizations or humor – this is their loss, not Simon’s and not Liu Young’s. I am English, retired, semi-educated, a ponderous thinker, etc. and deserve unflattering comparisons with others. I live with it. The clever people responsible for this post (and one or two of the comments) have my admiration.

By: One World Wonder

One World Wonder — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:50:34 +0000

man, these designs were created by a female, originally german based, chinese native (!!) design artist to shed some funny (!!) light on cultural diversities. and she did a pretty good job! many of the graphs are accurate! they are not meant, to harm anyone’s nor anyelses feelings. just fun, relax!

By: Zack

Zack — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:11:30 +0000

Come on guys, non one has to take this seriously. Okay..the part about this applying to ALL Asians and going so far as to call it research may be stupid but take it for what it is – a joke…maybe a joke few will appreciate but hell, you’ll even find some of these in Europe and even the US. So it’s not as big a prob as u’d think

Take the Maldives for example (it’s in Asia and though some of these may apply to parts of the country..you wont find any of this in the capital city where everything/everyone is so modern.) I’ve been to India..and EVERYTHING here applies to India. OMFG the one about the queue is absolutely correct. Universities, banks anywhere..u’ll see it.

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:41:17 +0000

As a westerner who has spend 20 years in the East, I must say this is good.

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STEREOTYPES OF NATIONALITIES » Sociological Images — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:28:12 +0000

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By: Benji

Benji — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:18:19 +0000

I went to a Subway in Beijing and asked for a party sub for my friend’s birthday. I couldn’t take it back home uncut. It took them half an hour and a call to the employees at a restaurant next door to figure out that they needed to cut it up and put it in different boxes.

The ticket booth in Subways are exactly like the picture shows. Rather than a line, you have people crowding around the ticket window. Not a single file line.

If you go to any non-western oriented restaurant, you will not see a fork. I can’t recall a time I did see one at a table, unless I went to Hard Rock or something.

Per capita compared to the West? People definitely drive more than bike in Asia now.

The only thing I have to disagree with in this hilarious post is that the Asians I’ve come across are all pretty punctual. In and out of Asia.

Really funny stuff.

By: Fanel

Fanel — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:15:37 +0000

nice

By: Western

Western — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:39:55 +0000

American, lived in Asia, pictures were funny as hell! Yea, it’s a generalization, not true for everyone, stated as a joke. Good job, I laughed, it brought back memories for me.

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By: Sharoon Akhtar

Sharoon Akhtar — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:10:12 +0000

Good Reseach, except a couple of things you were quite close to that. How did you collected the data

By: not asian

not asian — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:07:12 +0000

actually most of these are very funny and accurate, but some of them are stupid and make no sense

By: simon needs a life

simon needs a life — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:07:05 +0000

came across this site through stumble, noticed all the posts “simon” wrote, didn’t read them all but came to the obvious conclusion that i feel bad for him. suggestion – stop spending so much time worried about what anonymous people think of your opinions and RELAX. go grab a beer and meet a nice girl who will hopefully put up with your endless rants. smile.

By: islam

islam — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:56:54 +0000

this is to Nadia whom ignorantly spoke about islam and its perception about left handers.
First of all, you do not have to be wise to examine that if you eat with your left hand it will operate the right side of the brain which will lead the person in a emotional state. For this reason islam recommends to eat and mostly use the right hand in order to avoid such positions.

As to “woman sleeping on the left side of the bed” just out of curiosity, where have you got this statement from. Because as a muslimI can asure you this dos not exist. In addition I suggest for you to do some reasearch before you speak. Because it is morally wrong to mock others if you yourself are un certain of what you are stating.

Belive me if only peoplelike yourself, stopped making judgments about others,the world would be a safe place!

By: Rei

Rei — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:48:37 +0000

Where you grew up on the planet has a lot to do with how you eat and your behaviour. The whole world isn’t just grey, Simon. It’s not all the same, no matter how much you want it to be.
I think the pictures are kinda silly. Nothing amazing, nothing offensive. When people say that cause I’m Irish I must drink all the time I’m like “Yeah! When I can!” cause it’s true. Stereotypes are based on something true.

By: Rei

Rei — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:37:03 +0000

Simon – tl;dr.

From what I did manage to get through though, it seems as though you’re saying that if you think of another culture as being different, you’re racist. Don’t think about it! :O

Also, you seem like you’re a wannabe English teacher who didn’t grow up with English as their native language. Perhaps you learnt it in school or something?

By: Mbizzle televizzle

Mbizzle televizzle — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:12:48 +0000

photoshopped

By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:28:20 +0000

The whole discussion is waste of time/meaningless. Since most of those pictures are true, which means, these are FACTS. Btw I’m a chinese myself, I don’t REALLY see anything offensive about this whole research.

By: John Johnson

John Johnson — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:49:51 +0000

There are a lot of stupid people replying to this, it is about China and Germany, dumb asses.
I’ve been living in China with my Chinese wife for quite a while now, its great here, but most of these pictures are true especially the lining up one, and its not good or bad it depends on how you look at it