Americans are becoming more familiar with China and US-China relations.
10 years ago about 18% of the general public was somewhat familiar with US-China relations. Last year more than 3 times that many people or around 60% of Americans were somewhat or very familiar with relations between the two countries.
Nearly ALL opinion leaders have some idea of what is going on. They'd better!
This is a far cry from people who used to think that Japan, Korea and China was all one big glob that was 'over there'. I don't how many times my Japanese/American kids have been asked, 'do you speak Chinese?" and my Chinese wife has been asked "do you speak Japanese, too?"
Americans are getting smarter, but we still have a long way to go.
What do you think?
Statistics come from the Committee of 100 Annual Survey.
This is not suprising to me at all. The world is much "smaller" then it was 20-30 years ago. With advances in travel, in eduication and of course the internet, we seam to be more informed about different cultures across the world. The Asian culture inparticular because there is such a large population in the bay area.
Posted by: Jenny | May 1, 2006 9:29 AM | Permalink to Comment