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Although I understand the need, I hate grouping all 1.3+ billion people into a single stereotype/culture as the "Chinese." I've been to china and have spent a
by condescendence 11y ago
Although I understand the need, I hate grouping all 1.3+ billion people into a single stereotype/culture as the "Chinese."
I've been to china and have spent a lot of time there both studying and working and the first thing you experience in China is the diversity. There's a small part of the Chinese population that would actually consider hell money as apart of their culture.
User "stupandaus" had a good point about the different waves of Chinese immigration to US/Canada which included different ethnicity and even language that would give a reason why hell money isn't seen in some areas.
- anon432 11y agoI took it as an interesting, harmless, and creative funerary tradition and nothing more. It doesn't (IMO) reflect poorly on the Chinese people, and getting all defensive over it is silly.
- condescendence 11y agoYou clearly took my comment the wrong way. I'm speaking on behalf of a philosophical standpoint, 1.3+ billion of an item....in this case a specific Human nationality cannot be used to generalize the whole. It's 1.3 BILLION, there's going to be so much diversity and difference in a population of that size no matter the circumstances.