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China's going strong! Me, not so much.


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Nationalistic optimism hits its worldwide high in China, a new survey by PEW Global Attitudes Project has found. Eighty-six percent reported being happy with their county’s direction, with 82 percent positive about the national economy.

Chinese national pride may be up, but personal satisfaction isn’t especially high. In areas such as income, family life and career, attitudes square with how China’s per capita income ranks it in the global hierarchy (modestly), and have not improved much over past years.

Concerns over rising prices, the rich-poor gap, corruption and pollution are the issues most commonly sighted as putting a damper on all that China spirit, with at least three-quarters of those surveyed listing them as major problems. We can't say we're too surprised at this individual discontentment... remember those stats about how infrequently the Chinese actually achieve orgasm?
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1 response // China's going strong! Me, not so much.

  • Scepticism... this obviously had to be produced by someone in China which leads me to believe that it cannot be trusted. It would be like polling the Bush administration and asking them if they "were satisfied with the country's direction; Economy is good; and thought the way in Iraq was a "good idea."

    That said... If this is an unbiased report it is understandable because everything is on the up and up for the country after years of being in the proverbial slums. Their economy is strong, the government is investing around the world such as in US Debt, they have the Olympics, etc. The environmental issues aside, I doubt many Chinese would complain about too much.
    UWAZell

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