Rodrigo Silva I think a lot of people would say China is the emerging superpower. 我想很多人会说中国是新兴的超级大国。
Francisco Barbosa, raised in Rio I live in Rio de Janeiro and some years from now a lot of chinese is coming to live in my neighbourhood, in the north zone of the town. They are hard working and not very open to other people. For some reason, some of these chinese usually open and work on small savory snacks stores, called pastelarias 我住在里约热内卢，几年前，很多中国人来到我的社区，住在小镇的北部。他们工作努力，不太开放。其中一些中国人通常会在当地开小吃店，也叫pastelarias。 They are nice, and some are joyful just like brazilians. One day I saw a teen in these snacks stores in our Port hood playing/making fool of a brazilian just like any other girl of her age. 他们人很好，有些和巴西人一样热情。有一天，我看到一个十几岁的孩子在我们港口的小吃店里和一个巴西人开玩笑。 When I'm coming home from work, sometimes a I see a chinese young woman bring her son from primary school. In another time, I've seen the same boy on his father's shoulders. The father was singing a brazilian song for kids but in chinese. I've seen a chinese man making a ramp for wheelchair in his snack store by himself (maybe the Town said to him that his store needed a ramp). Instead of paying someone to do it, he made it by himself, to spare some change. I think the chinese people think the brazilians are lazy ou thinks themselves really smart. 下班回家时，有时我会看到一个中国年轻妇女接儿子放学。还有一次，我看见这个男孩骑在他父亲的肩膀上，父亲在为孩子们唱一首巴西歌曲，但用的是中文。我看到一个中国男人在自己的小吃店里做轮椅坡道(也许镇上的人对他说过他的店门口需要一个坡道)。为了省钱，他没有花钱请人做，而是自己做。我认为中国人会认为巴西人很懒，认为自己很聪明。 But also I've seen a chinese teen with his headphone on listening to loud music on the metro. He seemed upset for some reason. I don't think he get along here. Maybe he stays to much time online. 但我也看到一个中国少年戴着耳机在地铁上听着大声的音乐。他似乎因为某种原因而心烦意乱。我认为他在这里过得不好。也许他上网的时间太长了。 One of these days I saw a family of chinese people waiting for the train. They were all grown ups, but there was a chinese little girl that they all took care. The were all very patient. 有一天，我看到一家中国人在等火车。他们都是成年人，但其中有一个小女孩，他们都很照顾她，也都很有耐心。 There's a Chinese Cultural Association in my neighbourhood, but I've never been there. It's also a restaurant. It's always full at the weekends: 我家附近有一个中国文化协会，但我从来没去过。这也是一家餐厅，周末总是挤满了人。
Anonymous Most of Brazilian people (at least most that I know) think that China is a great country, with great technology. People here, usually tend to relate chinese people with hard-working and smart people. We have also the vision that chinese citizens demading a lot of themselves. About the language, we think very dificult, and if a brazilian citizen say that he is learning chinese, people would say that he is crazy! 大多数巴西人(至少我知道的大多数人)认为中国是一个伟大的国家，拥有伟大的技术。巴西人通常倾向于把中国人和勤奋、聪明联系在一起。我们还发现，中国人对自己的要求很高。关于中文，我们认为很难学。如果一个巴西人说他在学习中文，人们会说他疯了!
Luiz Felipe, Brazilian, we don't talk about 1950 and 2014. Carlos Fujita has given you a well explained reply, I would add some aspects of Jose Geraldo Gouvea's answer too. However, one thing that they forgot to mention is that a lot of Chinese people with commerce here work with food, mostly selling Pastel and juices, they are hard workers, we can see that once I went for a coffee at 7am at one of those, let's say, cafe and later, around 8pm I went there for a snack after class. The same person was there all day long, everyday, with no exception. We often make fun of the "China", but with no intention of mocking. I just think that Chinese people here have a close mind, they don't try to be friends with our people, it's almost like they are afraid that are culture can overcome theirs. Carlos Fujita作了一个很好的回答，我也想对Jose Geraldo Gouvea的回答做一些补充。然而，他们忘了提及的一件事是，很多中国人这做食品生意，主要销售果汁。他们工作努力，咖啡馆早上7点到晚上8点都在营业。每天都是同一个人在那上班，无一例外。我们经常取笑“中国”，但无意嘲讽。我只是觉得这里的中国人思想很封闭，他们不想和我们做朋友，似乎是害怕被我们的文化同化。
Rafael Miranda, lives in Brazil I lived with a Chinese roommate and had lots of Chinese friends while studying abroad in the US. 在美国留学期间，我和一个中国室友住在一起，结识了很多中国朋友。 It was a big culture shock at first. Being half a world apart, Brazil and China have a different way of doing almost everything. 一开始是一场巨大的文化冲击。巴西和中国相距半个地球，在几乎所有事情上都有不同的做法。 The first few weeks were awkward. We didn't really know what to say to each other or had anything in common. But as the weeks went by, we started bonding precisely over how different our lives had been, and how the other’s perspective was interesting. 最初的几周很尴尬。我们真的不知道该对彼此说些什么，也没有什么共同之处。但随着时间的流逝，我们开始密切关注我们的生活有多么不同，以及对方的视角有多有趣。 My favorite experience was going to a restaurant in Chinatown where all the menus were in mandarin and there was not a single non-Asian person. Our chinese friends took me and my friends and we ate each of their hometown’s traditional dish. They were totally different from any Chinese food I’d ever eaten, and delicious. 我最喜欢的一次经历是去唐人街的一家餐馆，那里所有的菜单都是中文的，没有一个非亚洲人。我们的中国朋友带着我们吃了他们家乡的传统菜肴，这些菜和我吃过的中国菜完全不同而且很好吃。 We talked about childhood, parent’s expectations, cultural pressures, and after 9 months of living together I found that even if we’re half a world apart, our lives were not that different after all. 我们谈到了童年、父母的期望、文化的压力。在一起生活了9个月后，我发现即使我们相隔半个地球，我们的生活也并没有那么不同。 Another interesting episode was the time I came back from the shower with only the towel wrapped around me and my roommate happened to be skyping his girlfriend and her friend. 另一个有趣的情节是，我洗澡出来，身上只裹着毛巾，而我的室友碰巧在和他的女朋友还有她女朋友的朋友一起视频聊天。 The girls were blushing and giggling, he called me up to talk to them. I apologized for being half naked on camera and the friend said I looked like a rockstar hahahaha. That was a nice stroke to the ego! 姑娘们红着脸咯咯地笑着，他叫我去跟她们说话。我为自己在镜头前半裸而道歉，她们说我看起来像摇滚明星哈哈哈。这是让我自信心倍增! I really liked most people I met from China, and I’m looking forward to visiting it soon! 我真的很喜欢我遇到的大多数中国人，我期待着在不久的将来能去中国一趟!
Joo Serra Well, even though I'm actually responsible for only my own impressions on the theme, from what I've seen here in Brazil, the feeling is that Brazilians tend to be quite neutral regarding non-Western countries, except Japan, whose influence here is well-documented. China has only become an issue as it turned out to be a more prominent global player, which is a recent phenomenon. Chinese coming-of-age success have been appreciated around here, as it represents the economic heyday of the developing countries, beating the US as the leader country regarding trade and investment. At the same time, Brazilians are a little concerned about their own deteriorating economy, as cheaper goods from China have flown into the country. Just imagine the Carnaval costumes almost all made in China. From what I can perceive, Brazil welcomes Chinese influence as long as it doesn't get on the way of a Brazilian distant dream which is to secure its own role as a global player too. These views could deteriorate or not, depending on what happens. Regarding the people, Brazilians are quite tolerant about almost anyone, take it by the the last World Cup huge success. We love Chinese food, too. 从我在巴西看到的情况来看，我的感觉是巴西人对非西方国家很中立，除了日本，日本在这里的影响是有据可查的。中国成为了一个更突出的全球参与者，这是最近的一个现象。中国的成功在这里得到了赞赏，因为它代表了发展中国家的经济全盛时期，在贸易和投资方面超过了美国。与此同时，由于来自中国的廉价商品已飞抵巴西，巴西人对本国不断恶化的经济状况有点担心。想象一下，几乎所有的狂欢节服装都是中国制造的。在我看来，巴西欢迎中国的影响，只要它不妨碍巴西遥远的梦想之路，即确保自己作为全球参与者的角色。这些观点可能会恶化，也可能不会，这取决于发生了什么。关于人民方面，巴西人几乎对任何人都很宽容，从上届世界杯的巨大成功就能看出来。我们也喜欢中国美食。
Renan Miranda, Was born and live here since 1990 Everybody hears a lot of how China is walking at large steps to become world's next superpower. Chinese people are seen as hardworking and serious, and like in any Western country, their culture is seen as exotic and object of curiosity. Many Brazilian big cities have large Chinese (also Taiwanese) immigrant communities. There comes the bad part: The recurrent stereotype of the young Chinese couple with at least 4 children, running a small pastry shop or a restaurant, in any corner of a major city's downtown. Many people avoid eating at them because they assume Chinese have bad hygiene habits, eat dogs, pidgeons, and even rats (which I think, is the worst misassumption ever about them). 每个人都听说过很多关于中国是如何一步步地成为世界下一个超级大国的。中国人被视为勤劳、认真的人。和任何西方国家一样，他们的文化也被视为异国情调和好奇的对象。 许多巴西大城市都有庞大的华人(也包括台湾人)移民社区。但也有不好的一面:这对年轻的中国夫妇至少有四个孩子，他们在市中心的各个角落开小糕点店或餐馆。但很多人都不到这些店里用餐，因为他们认为中国人有不良的卫生习惯，而且会吃狗肉、鸽子，甚至老鼠(我认为这是对中国人最大的误解)。
Jose Geraldo Gouvea, Been here for 42 years This is what I have heard people say about the Chinese (some of these things I myself have said, but I won't tell you which) 1.They are legion... 2.Everyone east of India and north of Australia is Chinese somehow 3.Kung-Fu! Shao-Lin! Shangri-La! 4.Statuettes of fat, smiling, big-eared Buddhas seated in the lotus position. 5.They are very hardworking people (which the Brazilians admire a lot) 6.They are very concerned about family and homeland (which the Brazilians also admire a lot) 7.Sometimes they seem to have some kind of a hive mind (which the Brazilians find very scary) 8.Chinese language is the new Greek (alien-looking and damn difficult to learn) 9.Confucius. 10.The Chinese eat a lot of animals whose very sight makes Brazilians puke: caterpillars, roaches, bats, spiders, crickets... 11.They apparently eat dogs, which the Brazilians find detestable (actually dogs are not eaten in China, afaik, but please see #2) 12.They once built a useless wall to keep enemies away, but it actually failed to protect them. 13.Their economy is growing at an impressive rate for years. The phrase "Chinese growth rate" ("taxas de crescimento chinesas") has entered economics lingo in Brazil. 14.They have had many wise people and produced innumerable "chinese proverbs" which are quite witty. 15.They're gonna take over the world (some hope for it, some are afraid of it). 16.And everybody will have to learn Chinese just like now people have to learn English. 以下是我听到的人们对中国人的看法(一些也是我自己的看法，但我不会告诉你是哪个) 1.他们人口庞大… 2.印度东部和澳大利亚北部都是中国人 3.功夫!少林!香格里拉! 4.胖胖的、面带微笑的、坐在莲花座上的大耳朵佛像 5.他们是非常勤劳的人民(巴西人非常钦佩他们) 6.他们非常关心家庭和家园(巴西人也很欣赏这一点) 7.有时他们似乎有一种蜂群思维，即集体意识(巴西人觉得这很可怕) 8.汉语是一种新的希腊语(很难学) 9.孔子 10.中国人吃很多巴西人一看到就想吐的动物：毛虫、蟑螂、蝙蝠、蜘蛛、蟋蟀…… 11.他们会吃狗，巴西人觉得这很可恶(据我所知，事实上，在中国是不吃狗的) 12.他们曾经建了一堵无用的墙（长城）来阻挡敌人，但实际上未能保护他们。 13.多年来，他们的经济一直在以惊人的速度增长。“中国增长率”一词已进入巴西的经济学术语。 14.他们中有很多聪明人者，编了无数相当诙谐的“中国谚语。 15.他们将接管世界(有人希望，有人害怕)。 19.每个人都必须学习中文，就像现在人们必须学习英语一样。
Carlos Fujita, Born in So Paulo, lived there my whole life. Stereotypical impressions about China, shared by most people I know, include the following:
There are lots of Chinese there. Like, more than one billion. We do not really know how one billion people look like but it must be a hell lot of people.
Because of the huge population, there is a very strict one-child-only policy.
They suck at football. But they are really good at stuff like table tennis and maybe gymnastics.
They are extremely determined and disciplined. This translates in the most beautiful opening and closing acts of Olympic Games. But they lack social skills.
They all look the same. And they also look the same as Japanese and Korean people (I am of Japanese descent, so I hear this all the time).
They manufacture most of the stuff we use. Like kitchen stuff, clothes, electronic devices. We find it funny, but are not totally surprised, when we buy souvenir from a Brazilian city we visited on vacations and it is also made in China.
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