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> based on its author's experience of living in China for more than one year.
> dishonesty is "the most prominent characteristic in the Chinese mentality as opposed to our own"
>Townsend gives many examples of him being lied to by Chinese employees, coolies, shopkeepers, and government officials, and notes that many other consuls were driven out of the service by this relentless and "aimless lying, with each lie merely a pretext for another".
>The other highly salient trait of the Chinese is their "indifference to fellow suffering".
>Townsend argues that the Chinese may be the only people in the world who are completely unable to comprehend the basic human impulses of sympathy or gratitude toward other people.
>Because the Chinese feel no empathy toward others, they behave in an unbelievably sadistic and cruel fashion toward one another, and they view altruistic foreigners as targets to be mercilessly taken advantage of.
>Other traits Townsend identifies as being typically Chinese are cowardice, lust for money, lack of a sense of personal hygiene, lack of critical thinking skills, insincerity, and obsession with hollow rites.
>these traits are as notable among China's leaders and educated strata as much as they are in the poor masses,
> Among the factions competing for power in China, Townsend believes that none of them, neither the leaders nor their men, have any fixed loyalties or higher motivations apart from desire for loot.
>United States had given at least $160 million in philanthropy to China,
>charities are subject to rampant looting, arson, and murderous mob violence by Chinese people
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