Do The Chinese Ride Jackie Chan To Work/school

Does Jackie Chan really do all of his own stunts? Is there a line drawn by executives or the director where he can't do certain stunts for the sake of the production? What is it like watching Chan block and perform the stunts?

Yes. He even did them with injuries. "I broke my ankle while jumping onto a hovercraft in Rumble in the  Bronx.  After the bone was set and a cast was put on, I was told to  stay off my feet until it healed. But I had a movie to finish! I went back  to the set and put a sock on my broken foot, painted to look like a  sneaker. ""In Chan's biography, he elaborates on how students would be made to adopt the horse stance and other balancing poses, for long periods of time. If one student  fell, they would be beaten and all students would be made to restart the  exercise."Students  signed contracts that instructors punsh them to the point of death.

Do Americans hate China or the Chinese? Why?

Americans don’t hate China or the Chinese. Most Americans have no strong feelings about China one way or another. Or any other foreign nation. They do tend to repeat whatever the last nasty slur they heard on a political talk show or the last ugly joke they heard about a given foreign group, but, most of that is just recreation. If they didn’t hear it again tomorrow or the next day, they would find something else to talk about or joke about. When foreign tourists meet Americans in person they report them to be curious and friendly, sometimes a bit too much so for some foreign cultures. When Americans travel overseas, most are on their best behavior, while others are not, but very few come back complaining about where they have been.By and large, the Donald Trump campaign is based on fear-mongering and hate-mongering. The coalition that has held the republican party together for forty years is based on corporatist conservatives running the party on behalf of the business-owning and business-operating classes. To get enough votes to do this, they feed emotional “culture war” demagoguery and racism to populist conservatives who have suffered from wage stagnation and loss of jobs to foreign nations, mainly to the Chinese. Trump’s goal, which he has neatly achieved at this point (early June of 2016) is to to take the populist conservative vote away from the corporate conservatives by out-pandering them. By speaking directly to populist conservative racism and xenophobia.This concentrates the paranoid fears of working class white Americans into a boiling rage well suited to cable TV news shows and shock-jock radio. Which disgusts and embarrasses the rest of America.How much damage the Trump campaign does to American culture and American politics remains to be seen. He is riding a wave of resentment and paranoia that right wing propaganda has been promoting for decades.

Are most Chinese people Kung-Fu Masters?

Absolutely not. I’m not sure if this is a joke question or not. But supposing you have not met more than a small sample of Chinese people in your life, and a majority of that small sample were Kung Fu masters (I’d love to hear that story), let me explain:During the cultural revolution in China in the 1960s, Kung Fu was completely banned and was not allowed to be taught for several years (off the top of my head I’m remembering it was also banned sometime earlier in China’s history as well). That’s when many masters fled the country to places like Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States. Currently, in China, Kung Fu is coming back, but it’s certainly not remotely popular, with many schools concentrated in Dengfeng, where the Shaolin temple is (Shaolin temple being the place where kung fu supposedly originated). Additionaly, there are several schools who cater exclusively to foreigners, for two reasons: 1) foreigners are generally more interested in Chinese martial arts than locals, due to whatever pop-culture phenomena in their respective countries (think Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, etc movie stars who became famous outside China), and 2) they can boost prices and therefore make more money with less students (because Euros and dollars go much farther in China than in the west).Source: I have personally studied at one of those schools, and additionally, have come into contact with many Chinese people who were not kung fu masters, both in China and abroad.

Are Chinese more selfish or more selfless than Westerners?

Not so much selfish as egocentric. Chinese explain this as being due to 5000 years of the struggle to survive. Chinese society is fiercely competitive. It's a common saying that you have no friends amongst your colleagues. When studying Chinese I came across a chengyu, 以怨报德。It told the story of a scholar riding along on a donkey with his bag full of books, 东郭先生和狼 when he hears the sounds of hunters. Suddenly a wolf runs up to him and begs help from the old scholar who agrees to hide the wolf in his bag of books. The hunters charge down on the scholar demanding to know where the wolf went. The scholar points towards the woods and the hunters take off again. He lets the wolf out of the bag and the wolf announces he is he hungry and so will eat the scholar. The scholar protests but the wolf calmly replies that since the scholar saved him, he is now responsible for feeding him. The takeaway message is supposed to be to beware of ingrates. But I've always taken it to explain why Chinese often refuse to help someone in trouble. Numerous times we have heard of guileless foreigners helping an injured Chinese by taking them to a hospital, only to have both the patient and the hospital staff turn on them demanding they pay the bill. ”But you must be responsible for their injury! Why else would you bring them here?”

What should I do if my mom said we are going to China?

Without having any context about your life (in what country are you living?, how old are you?, go for trip or live in China?, etc) I would say that this can be a great chance for you.I just assume, you are 12 years old and your family moves 5 years to China for a work-project of your mother/father.Don’t be afraid of China! You as a foreigner in school will be welcomed by most Chinese children/classmates. The Chinese school can be linked with similar contents as your school back home. Usually western families send their children on international schools in China, this is mostly due to language reasons, but also to “escape” the Chinese learning system, which is quite competitive.But let us focus on the positive aspects.Think at the opportunities for a person at your young age: you can learn the language from inside the country, you will understand the culture, you will be able to “breath” China in your daily life for many years.If your family would live in Shanghai, Beijing or any other Chinese city for let’s say “only” 5 years, your character and worldview will be years ahead of most other people your age from your country. Also living in the huge cities is not so different than in the west anymore.Your ability to express yourself will raise, your self-confidence will be stronger and your general knowledge and especially mindset will grow exponentially.Don’t be afraid! Chinese do not bite…!