Discussion Do chinese people really have personalities like they do in wns?

like you know.
everyone is a meat head. no on can use their brains.
all of them flips when someone 'offends' them *lol*
idk but this seems to be the generic character of every novel out there (chinese)

 

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No. The douchebags are only there so the MC has someone to beat up. The concentration of douchebags in xianxia novels is greatly exaggerated.

 

They seem to like violence more than negotiations.
Which is...well...
Idk..

 

Not really. It's just caricatures that evolved from a competitive Chinese economic and social environment (1. government is really overbearing, and 2. as a country they really are not as developed as western nations). There was this one time that RWX posted that his mom was concerned that people who read translated Xianxia would think that all Chinese people think like that. Which is definitely not true, or at least not more than normal people would normally. It's really interesting to view this genre in this light, and also explains a lot of most character's motivations/inclination (MGA, I'm looking at you) to piss off the most powerful person, because it's wish fulfillment in a sense--use your fists/personal genius to defeat authority.

Basically, Xianxia characters are all really exaggerated.

 

But hell. My cousin went to china kongming (or someplace idk) He's has indian blood so looks like that.
He was asking for directions at the airport and said that most people ignored him. While only a few treated him politely.
Which is another aspect they share on cn novels.

(Though in singapore there aren't any chinese like that at all.)

 

Soul land

 

Most Asian nations have severe inferiority complex's due to them being walked across by the Europeans when they were first discovered, so to show their strength, they treat everyone like shit in general. Almost all of the countries also have huge history of infighting among themselves and their neighbors, so they basically treat everyone like an enemy no matter where you're from. So, they're not portraying anything in the novels that are much different from their own societal norms, discrimination is in every nation, just in asia they tend to go above and beyond with how they like to portray which nationality they are in everything they write. I've never seen writing that has to point out what country they're from more than when I read stuff written by Asian countries. Every novel has japanese man this, or chinese man that, or korean man this, like you didn't know that when the book was written in that language. That alone shows how much of an inferiority complex they have that it requires them to state what they are every few dozen lines or every single chapter at the most unless in the fantasy genre where their countries don't exist.

 

Though as for Japanese, i get the feeling the suffer from superiority complex rather than the opposite.

 

Novels like Peerless Martial God, Martial God Asura, etc. where the MC spends 95% of the story stomping someone who offended him are basically 'revenge on my bullies' stories. They appeal a lot to male teenagers. I'm not saying they are bad but I strongly believe they are crafted that way for a reason.