Comments by "Patrick T" (@patrickt49) on "China Lies About Everything!" video.

"The Chinese seldom lie with consistency, and never with ingenuity. Their production aims at quantity, not quality. Current American fiction ideas about the sinister cunning of the Chinese with their matchlessly clever deception is laughable after a slight amount of first-hand experience. They could rarely fool a bright ten-year-old after he had been in the country long enough to get the hang of their style." - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "We think of lying as a recourse a somewhat venturesome and usually reluctant expedient intended to maintain a deception until the crisis of a difficulty is past. The Chinese idea of lying first of all that it is an answer - a response of some sort, opposed to the bothersome or disagreeable actualities of the moment - designed to protract uncertainty in another person, or at least get rid of him. It may not even be expected to do this, but will be designed merely to parry the approach of the disagreeable. " - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend
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"With absolutely no advantage to be gained by lying, in a thousand instances where the explanation is of no importance one way or the other, a Chinese will relate the most absurd sort of cellophane lie. High and low, coolie, or general, they will lie naively, reassuringly, always affecting surprised pain at your doubts, when within an hour or so the truth is certain to crop out. " - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "It is necessary to recall that lying has not the disesteem attached to it among the Chinese that it has with us, and it is therefore a deficiency of character chiefly in our estimate of them, and not in their estimate of themselves. But it becomes important to us when we have negotiations with them, and is for that reason worth noting. " - "Ways that are dark" by Ralph Townsend
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