Timisoara, Romania
Adriana Vulpan, 25, Sales Manager
In my opinion Romanians are characterized by their developed sense of hospitality. So with a little bit of help from the authorities, we could develop an exemplary tourism sector, because, after all, nature was very generous with Romania.
Andrés Pinto Espinosa, 26, Student
We are very quiet but cheerful and friendly; we are also curious about people and things that come from the outside. Chile is a very large country, with different climates and environments so people are different from one part to another, but generally we are very lovable, as is the rest of our continent.
Ora Binur, Musicologist
The common characteristics of people in my country are: warmth towards each other; very caring in friendships; they are quite involved in politics; not polite enough; quite nervous because the need to survive and not really supportive to other people’s success.
Amjad Chaudhry, Age 38, Information Technology Sector
A common characteristic I find all Pakistanis to have is that they adhere, they are committed to their beliefs and opinions; those beliefs and opinions are derived from the community in which they dwell.
Miriam Seirmannova, 19, Student,
I think Slovakians are a very joyful nation. They know how to enjoy themselves and can see beauty in simple things. They have a natural gift for music, so we have very lovely traditional music instruments. On the other hand, I think they are rather conservative and it's difficult for them to accept anything new. Regretfully, my impression is that they are still influenced by the spirit of the former [communist] regime. It is manifested on their way of raising children.
Luca Arrostini, 50, Driver
Italian people? Italian people are skillful. We are good people but on the other hand, Italian people lie. This is not, for example, how English or German people are. Normally when English and German people say “yes” it is true, but when Italian people say “yes”… there are different sides and faces.
Paul McCormack, 36, Manufacturing Jeweler/Business Owner
Australia being a multicultural country, it’s a very difficult question to answer in regards to the fact that there are so many different people from so many different parts of the world. And I think everybody is quite individual so it would be a very generalizing type of statement, if I am to make a comment on that question. I’ve traveled a lot and I think that people normally hold Australians as hardworking, but then again there are a lot of people who don’t like hard work as well. Probably fairly easy to get along with as well, Australians. We tend to be fairly welcomed in most countries wherever I’ve traveled in the past. We’re fairly friendly accommodating sort of people in general.
Athens, Greece
Anastasios Koutsodimitropoulos, 69, Retired Aircraft Mechanic
Greek People always like to have fun till late at night and have long conversations among friends.
Taipei, Taiwan
Chuang Hungwei, 30, PhD in Finance
Being sincere and simple, keeping one’s word, putting value on friendship, being frugal, working hard. Because I grew up in a farming family, and I think Taiwanese people are very dependable.
Look for the Global Q&A column every week, when Epoch Times correspondents interview people around the world to learn about their lives and perspective on local and global realities.
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