The Chinese Culture From A Spaniard View

Since I’ve arrived to Taiwan the 10th of February, I have not stopped to see contrasts everywhere comparing to the Spanish culture.
As a Spaniard, son of Andalusian father and Catalan mother, grown into a bilingual and multicultural atmosphere, the Chinese culture has entered to my life as something new and impressive. Why such a different contrast? It’s just about the weather? It’s also becauseof the language? It’s because of the cities? Probably a sum of everything, but the most important thing it’s because of the culture of the people. The Chinese society, specially the Taiwanese has grown under different philosophies that has been the key of their success as a society. That is the main point that differentiates the westerns cultures from the Asian. The education under some valuesinstilled such as the Confucism, Daoism and Buddhism.

But, how Chinese culture is seen from our Spanish perspective?

Chinese people in Spain

• 70% of the Chinese in Spain come from the Zhejiang province and its surroundings. From there, specifically a town called Qintiang.
• Create their business and are discharged free-lance.
• During the 80 worked on the restoration, in the bazaarsand currently 90 in clothing stores and woks. The Wok is a business concept that took the Netherlands, and make money is when they fill the facility.
• In Barcelona bars are managing life, when the owner wants to retire, acquire the business while maintaining their products "tapas" and staff.







They are all over Spain, but there is little that the Spanish know them. Almost no oneknows where they came. Are the Chinese residents in Spain. A large and visible group, they drink much of the country's small businesses. But also, a great unknown to the Spanish.
On the Chinese circulating many topics, some with some basis in reality, other fruit of the most extravagant inventions. It is true that work very, very much. No it is not recorded deaths of Chinese citizens in Spain. TheChinese will die, like everyone else, and his remains are not reused to make chop suey dishes in Chinese restaurants in neighborhood like urban legend says. "What happens is that the Chinese in Spain are a young population, so there are few deaths. In addition, many are buried in China. Topics like this are spurious result of ignorance.

They came with the Republic
There are grocery stores inChina in all Spanish cities, but this commercial presence does not translate into familiarity in dealing with the Spanish. Conversations rarely go beyond a "you have cold beer" or "I take a milk carton." However, the Chinese are not newcomers. The first contingent of Chinese immigrants arrived in Spain in the distant days of the Second Republic. Since the 1970s, and in parallel to economicdevelopment, there were new arrivals.

Spain should be attractive to many Chinese because although, like most immigrants, they look when they leave their home country are economic opportunities, the crisis hitting Spain harder than other European countries, has prevented the influx of Chinese continue to increase. However, the Spanish state is no longer a destination for them. The locomotive pulls noSpanish. Far is the 1990, which, he recalls this same teacher, Spain was the second largest recipient of immigrants in the world, surpassed only by the United States.
The rise of China's presence in Spain is visible in many respects. While Rajoi (Spanish Prime Minister) visits Beijing in search of capital for the battered Spanish savings banks, the Spanish streets are filled with small Chinese shops.For example the area of the “Arc de Triomf” in Barcelona, is an example of how these businesses are taking the place of indigenous traditional retail trade. It is in Spain, particularly in the town of Fuenlabrada, in the industrial belt of the metropolitan area of Madrid, which houses the largest concentration point of companies engaged in import and export of Chinese goods in Europe. In their...