欧美日看我们是不是就跟我们看印度一样？

我来自欧盟国家斯洛伐克，所以我可以告诉你斯洛伐克人对中国的看法。

很遗憾大多数没有到过中国的斯洛伐克人确实认为中国一定是一个像印度一样混乱的地方，他们不认为这是一个适合欧洲女孩居住的好地方。

在我来中国之前，大多数人对我说我要住在中国的反应都很糟糕。即使是我这辈子从没见过的陌生人也告诉我不要去。例如，有一次我在家乡政府办公室拿到一些文件，我告诉办事员我在那里，因为我要离开斯洛伐克。所以他脸上带着微笑问我“你要去哪里？”我说“中国”。他的笑容突然凝固了。他震惊了。他说“中国？！！你为什么要去中国？一直都是中国人来欧洲的，我们不去中国生活……”

即使我对他来说只是个陌生人，但他仍然需要告诉我离开欧洲去中国是个坏主意。人们真的不知道中国的生活是什么样的，他们在想象最糟糕的事情。

我想人们只是想象中国的生活质量不是很高。实际上在斯洛伐克我们有很多“中国商店”，他们卖的东西都很便宜，便宜的衣服，便宜的鞋子，便宜的耳机，都很便宜。而且这些商店大多看起来不太好，它们很乱，而且里面的气味也很难闻。

亚裔店主可能不会说斯洛伐克语，所以他们永远不会和你说话，很多时候他们甚至都不会看你一眼。当我还是个孩子的时候，我一直认为中国人真的很讨厌我们，因为这些店主的行为方式。

大多数时候，这是斯洛伐克人与“中国”之间唯一的真实互动。尽管这些商店的老板很多时候都不是中国人，他们是“越南人”！但这些商店总是被称为“中国商店”，因为他们卖的东西是中国制造的，所以每个人都认为店主是中国人。

我也可以给你们看一下斯洛伐克本地人开的商店：

在斯洛伐克，我们也没有机会在电视上看中国电影，而且斯洛伐克的媒体就像其它西方媒体一样，不断地在中国身上抹黑。就连我的爸爸最近也问我，中国的环境和空气太差了，大多数日子都不能出去，这是不是真的？我刚刚告诉他，杭州比斯洛伐克的城市还要漂亮，这里的环境真是太棒了，有很多树和公园，空气也很好，我每天出门都没有问题。他只是说：“我知道报纸一定在撒谎，至少我有你，这样我才能从你那里了解真相。”

但是大多数斯洛伐克人没有女儿住在中国，所以他们没有办法找出真相。他们相信中国一定和他们从媒体和斯洛伐克的“中国商店”知道的一样：到处都是讨厌外国人的粗鲁的人，那里的一切都必须是廉价和低质量的，环境一定很糟糕，无论你走到哪里都一定闻起来很难闻。

事实上，在中国生活了三年后，我感到很尴尬。因为我的国家的许多人仍然相信中国的许多不好的东西，而实际上许多中国城市的生活甚至比斯洛伐克的生活还要好。所以我未来的目标是向欧洲人展示中国人民的真实生活和真实的中国。

I come from Slovakia so I can tell you what Slovak people think about China. Most Slovak people do imagine China must be some messy place just like India and they do not think it's a good place for European girl to live. Before I came to China most people's reaction to me saying I'm going to live in China, was very bad. Even strangers I've never seen in my life before told me not to go. For example one time I was getting some papers in my hometown government office and I told the clerk I'm there because I'm leaving Slovakia. So he asked me with a smile on his face "Where are you going?" I said "China." His smile suddenly froze. He was in shock. He said "China?!! Why would you go to China? It's Chinese people that come here. We don't go live in China.."

Even I was just a stranger to him but he still needed to tell me it's a bad idea to leave Europe and go to China. People truly have no idea what life in China is like and are imagining the worst things.

I think people just imagine that the quality of life in China is not very high. In fact in Slovakia we have many "Chinese stores" where everything they sell is very cheap, cheap clothes, cheap shoes, cheap earphones, all cheap. And the stores mostly don't look very good, they are messy and also the smell inside is bad and the Asian owners probably can't speak Slovak so they will never talk to you, many times they will not even look at you. When I was a kid I always thought Chinese people really hate us because of the way these store owners behave. Most of the time this is the only real life interaction Slovak people have with "China". Even though the owners of these stores many times are not actually Chinese, they are Vietnamese but the store is always called "Chinese store" because the stuff they sell was made in China so everyone just assume the owners are Chinese. In Slovakia we also don't really have have a chance to watch Chinese movies on tv, also the Slovak media just like western media keeps smearing a lot of dirt on China. Even my dad who really likes China recently asked me if it's the truth that the environment and the air in China is so bad you can't even go outside most days... I just told him that Hangzhou is even more beautiful than Slovak cities, the environment here is really amazing with many trees and parks, the air is also very good and I go outside every day without problem. He just said "I knew the newspaper must be lying, at least I have you so I can learn the truth from you."

But most Slovak people don't have a daughter living in China so they have no way finding out the truth. They believe China must be the same they know from media and from "Chinese stores" in Slovakia: full of rude people that hate foreigners, everything there must be cheap and low quality, the environment must be awful, and everywhere you go it must smell bad.

Actually now after living in China for 3 years I feel awkward that many people from my country still believe so many bad things about China, when in reality the life in many Chinese cities is even better than life in Slovakia. So it's my goal for the future to show European people the real life of Chinese people and the real China.