You're right, people in China are aware of this - and they bring it up all the time... but God help you if <i>you</i> (as a foreigner) do.<p>It's a common mentality with the Chinese (speaking as one myself)... only you are allowed to criticize your kind, any outside criticism is presumptuous and arrogant. This attitude pisses me off, since it prevents us from learning from everyone else on this rock.