As a Chinese person, I find this comparison between cultures very interesting, and very true (at least on the red side)! Credit goes to Ms Yang Liu (thanks William Hogan for the link!), a Chinese lady who was educated in Germany. These pictures were part of an art exhibition in Germany held in June 2007.
Update 1: A comment. I do not intend for this post to say that one culture is better than the other, cause division or be insulting. Personally I view it as a very wonderful way that we humans are so diverse and unique.
Update 2: I have moved the pictures to Google’s web share because my website is going to exceed my web hosting bandwidth limit.
The left (blue) side refers to German culture, and the right (red) side refers to Chinese culture.
Update 3: I have just received an email from Ms Yang Liu’s publisher. These pictures have been published, and as such it is not appropriate for me to share them here with you. I have removed all but 3 of my favourite ones.
These pictograms are published in the book “Ost trifft West” (East Meets West), Yang Liu, Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz, 2007 (ISBN 978-3-87439-733-9).
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October 6, 2007 at 11:17
LOL this is nice. A few I don’t get though.
Adino: Hehe, yeah I thought it was good to share
October 6, 2007 at 14:51
clever!
Adino: I can’t take credit for this, it’s done by someone called Liu Yong. Thanks for visiting my blog and leaving a comment!
October 6, 2007 at 19:54
does not it remind the flash animes of bruno bozetto comparing italy to eurpian union….i like both of them very much….congragulations to liu
Adino: I haven’t seen that… do you have the link?
October 6, 2007 at 21:41
This is an extroardinary, albeit rather tongue in cheek look at two very different cultures; what is interesting to me is that this explains why the cultures seem so different. Ultimately, as you can see from “perception of each other’s culture”, even the processing of stereotypes is the same, it’s merely a mirror image. What stands out is the perception of family, the concept of punctuality and really time itself and most strikingly, the idea of problem solving. While the problem solving could have been perceived as a slight on european culture, I’m not sure it’s inaccurate.
Very interesting character study of two very real and very difficult to summarize cultures.
Adino: I agree… it’s very impressive what he did, and he has good powers of observation.
October 7, 2007 at 02:42
This is really insightful. It’s the kind of thing that makes me wish there was more choice on stumbleupon. This would be under the Love it choice. Genius, and really well put together.
oh, and Adino heres the link for EU vs Italy:
http://www.lifeinitaly.com/flash/
Adino: Thanks for the link!
October 7, 2007 at 04:15
Oh god, A previous boss was chinese Every single picture I was thinking, “It’s Her!”
Thanks for finding these They cheered me up.
Adino: Hehe… glad you could find them relevant. Thanks for visiting my blog!
October 7, 2007 at 16:27
well, better waste $ 19 on brain next time… jesus, what a jerk (so much about attitude towards problems ;).
BTW, the pics are really funny, I like them - I wish there were more also for other cultures.
Adino: People have the right to their opinions… and this diversity makes our world interesting. Don’t worry, this post was not meant to say anything bad about any particular culture.
Thanks for visiting my blog, and leaving a comment! 
October 7, 2007 at 18:43
I hate chinese people
Adino: I’m sure you have your reasons… and I do have to admit that the Chinese have some annoying habits too. Perhaps you could share any bad experiences you had?
October 7, 2007 at 21:20
Adino: Thanks everyone for visiting this page and leaving your comments. This post seems to be quite popular in StumbleUpon, Digg and Thoof. Unfortunately I won’t have the time to moderate post comments for the next few days, so I will have to lock comments for now.