Chinese in America

◇Richard Yang

Richard Yang is the president of the Carolinas Chinese Chamber of Commerce, as well as an international trade advisor to the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina. Yang has lived in U.S. for 27 years.

☆Highlights:

For Yang, the most attractive attributes about the U.S. are its value of freedom, a diverse culture, creativity, a relatively small government and clean air.

Yang says the U.S. is a culturally diversified country with a lot of brains from all over the world, with creativity and also a democratic climate in every aspect. But the U.S. faces a lot of problems and challenges in the areas of creating jobs, social welfare and racial conflicts. According to Yang, Americans are more likely to embrace religion, and they are very friendly, open, hard-working, and creative.

Yang believes that surely a great China-US relationship is very important. He really wishes the China-US relationship will be friendly and peaceful.

◇Huang Li

Huang Li works as a high school Mandarin teacher in Chicago, and she has lived in the U.S. for nine years.

☆Highlights:
Huang says the U.S. has people and food from all over the world, which makes it very fascinating.

For Huang, the U.S. is a land of opportunities, but it's also a very competitive place to live. The American people are a bit self-centered and don't care too much about the rest of the world, because they think they are in the greatest country in the world. Huang also thinks that Americans respect human rights and animal rights, and many of them are generally very nice.

Huang hopes the Chinese economy could stay strong all the time and that China and the U.S. maintain a good, interdependent relationship, as that would encourage more American students to enroll in her Chinese program and be good for her career.

◇Sun Xirui

Sun Xirui studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and she has lived in U.S. for one and a half years.

☆Highlights:
For Sun, the most attractive thing about the U.S. is its astonishing convenience, as people can get whatever they want in all the stores.

Sun says the U.S. is basically a smaller version of the entire world, but it has boundaries only set for a certain group of people. She thinks most Americans are friendly but that they are a little bit ignorant about what's happening in other countries and they get information based on their imagination of their stereotypical ideas of other countries. Based on her conversations with Americans in the classroom, Sun says they try to show they care about the world but that they also think that they want to help developing countries instead of developing together with people in those countries.

When talking about future China-U.S. relations, Sun feels there would be more and more cooperation between the two nations in education. Sun hopes that there will be more opportunities for Chinese students in the field of education to find jobs in the U.S.

◇Chen Chan

Chen Chan works as a social service specialist with the Washington State Department of Social and Health Service. She has lived in the U.S. for three years.

☆Highlights:
Chen says the U.S. is a very diverse country in terms of its population and culture, as well as a country where different cultures could integrate with each other.

For Chen, the U.S. is a country full of opportunities and the American people value individualism, which allows them to pursue their desires.

Chen notes that her colleagues and supervisors see China as a very big, fast-developing and powerful country and that they are looking forward to going to China.

◇Yang Jie

Yang Jie works as a senior analyst in New York, and she has lived in the U.S. for eight years.

☆Highlights:
Hundreds of national parks in the U.S. attract Yang the most about the country.

Yang says the U.S. is very special in its own diversity, creativity and individuality. Most Americans are very kind and respectful to others and not judgmental.

She hopes China and the U.S. will maintain strong relations because it means easy travel for her and her parents, who live in China.