Children on the mindset of Chinese people

In spite of being the second biggest economy of the world and integrating deeply to the world through globalization and business trading, China seems to be quite successful in preserve their own very unique culture. Westerners who have come and visited have to acknowledge that the culture of China is very separate from the West and not much of the globalization and culture blending have a great impact on Chinese culture. The following points that I am going to point out seem to be very fixed perceptions in mindset of every Chinese and contrary to the mindset of most of the Westerners. If you want to find out more about this issue, please visit this link of Ancient Chinese Culture

Children: there are two distinctive things on regard of children in China. The first very unchanged fact about children is most of Chinese want as many children as possible and the second important thing is most of Chinese want a boy rather than a girl. The first important perception of Chinese is that they want a big family. It is quite opposite to that in the West when people seem to have as few children as possible. Basically, every Chinese always believe that children mean happiness. The more children they have, the happier they are. That is why you can easily understand China is the country of more than 1 billion people accounting for one eighth of the world’s population. However, because of the very strict regulation of ‘one child’ policy that curbs every couple to have just one and only child, the situation of population growth has been controlled successfully in terms of politics but in the mindset of Chinese that perception of having many children will never change especially in the rural areas.

Besides the reason of happiness, Chinese also traditionally think children is wealth. This notion exists because of the simple fact that a big family will have more labors and contribute more to the overall wealth of the family. Especially, in the rural areas where farming is the main industry there, labors are the main factor for a productive farming. One more important fact which explains why many Chinese like to have many children is that children will take care their parents when their parents get old. Traditionally, most of the children will live with their parents throughout their life. This has somehow changed due to the economic development in China when young people have money to buy their own homes. Even children are not living with their parents, it is the responsibility of children to take care of their parents. As a result, more children means parents will be happier when they get older.