"I'd rather be the head of a chicken than the tail of an ox." "A loose sheet of sand, without any sense of sticking together." One can often hear sayings about the purported inability of Chinese to cooperate in daily life. This habit has led to the trend of "taking on the world with a single briefcase" and going it alone for many years now in Taiwan.
「三個和尚沒水喝」、「寧為雞首，不為牛後」、「一盤散沙，沒有團隊精神」，關於中國人「合作不起來」的俗諺在日常生活中處處可聞，印諸多年來台灣業者「一隻提包走遍天下」的單打獨鬥、殺價搶單形態，也似乎傳言不假。