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Q: Can you provide more examples of Chinese things with "Western characteristics"?
We've all heard about how something in China is unique and must be changed from its Western counterpart; the obvious example is that while socialism and capitalism exist in China, they both have "Chinese characteristics".
If that is true, then the same rule should exist in reverse.
For example,
* fortune cookies are "Chinese dessert with American characteristics"
* The Matrix is "Chinese kung fu with American/Hollywood characteristics"
* breakdancing is "Chinese kung fu with African-American characteristics"
Already, it is quite a different list from a similar Chinese list in kind.
10 years 24 weeks ago in General - Other cities
Chinese egg roll or spring roll served in Chinese restaurants in the West have nothing to do with their local counterparts.
Scandinavian:
what is called Spring Rolls in "the west" is just no Chinese, it's more a Vietnam, Taiwan thing. Then perhaps mislabeled as Chinese, not sure. But yeah, it's correct the rolls in China are nothing like the rolls in the west.
By far, food. Chinese food in Western countries seems to be mostly Guangzhou food with some adaptations. Only in Chinatown districts you can find something closer to what you would find in Chinese streets. Ho, and while Sichuan food restaurants are common in a China, they seems rare outside :(
Also, some martial art teachers, who seems to need to carry some mystical Asian fluff to be credible as teachers. I found nothing like that fluff in Asia, and I traveled a bit....
As it happens fortune cookies are a Japanese invention that first appeared in California, they're not Chinese at all; break-dancing originated from sailors who'd visited Brasil and picked up the dance-fighting style of Capoeira and brought it home to the states, and the Matrix is........just.........f***ing cool. But Chinese things with western characteristics? My wife. She's small, dainty, a real Chinese rose, but she swears like a trooper and always checks her mirror and indicates when she's driving.
