Well what i understood about china and chinese is that chinese people respect money. i gues this makes sense

No, never make u fuwuyuan mad! Even he/she earns one kuai a day, u don't want him/her get angry with u……

money rules china. but most, if not all their money comes from USA. So i guess USA rules China. it's as simple as that.

you right, do you know a chinese tranditioanl idiom "笑贫不笑娼" , that mean people laught aloud at the begger more than the prostitutes .
in modern china socity, money represent everything. if you are richer, you get power, respect and woman/man, if you are poorer that mean you are loser, no one will show some mercy for you, .even included the goverment charity departments.

The word rude is based on your understanding of how you were taught to treat others. In China many things that I think as rude, I try to remeber that my social training was different and it is not considered as rude to most Chinese. You must be strong and forceful in dealing with people in a public setting and it is not being rude...

I think the difference is philwilliams, we were taught how to treat others and we had social training... Here they get and have neither..