Forum Post #5 4/7/09 Cultureless Assumptions

A common misconception that the Chinese who live in a metropolitan area make about the Sichuanese migrants is that they are uncultured. Yet again, like Peter said, this is the usual assumption that people make about anyone who works in a rural area. Although people formulate bitter assumptions Peter goes on saying how the Sichuanese could care less about what others think of them, and how they just focus on the work that needs to be done or the work they can find. This way they can focus on making enough money to make ends meet. It is interesting to think how ignorant the urban population can be in assuming how those working in rural China are uncultured, since China itself and the majority of other countries have been built up from a agriculturally and rural location into a thriving world power. Sichuan itself used to be the most populous province in China and was home to more than 120 million people until it was split into two. The urban society forgets their own roots and are actually the ones who are more cultureless than those in Sichuan. Accustomed to a new age, urban citizens are not familiar with traditional Chinese styles of living that the Sichuan migrants continue to live with. The Sichuanese area is is developing very slowly compared ot other areas, but being in a rural area it holds some of the cultural customs that helped build China into what it is today.