What are the reasons why China people in Europe would rather wash dishes than go back to China?

In the long river of history, Eurasia has always occupied an extremely important position. Chinese civilization, ancient Greece, Rome, Arabia and other civilizations were born. However, due to its vast territory, it is often expensive to reach the English Channel in the west from the East China Sea coast.

Even Kyle Polo walked eastward along the Silk Road under the instructions of the Pope, and it took him almost two years to reach China from Europe, during which he also crossed Gobi, desert and grassland. The hardships of the journey often make the communication between the East and the West only stay on the trade of the Silk Road.

However, with the arrival of the great navigation era in the15th century, the world began to get smaller. Europeans began to take risks around the world. China, on the other hand, has gradually become a backward and vulgar country in the eyes of westerners because of its closed door.

This also makes China people, even in Europe, often treated differently with colored glasses after being opened to the outside world by foreign powers. Can't really integrate into the mainstream European society.

Even today, China is becoming stronger and its economic development is much better than in the past. Although many China people can only do odd jobs such as serving food in restaurants and doing manual work in factories in Europe, they are still unwilling to return to China for development. Why?

China people living in Europe work hard.

In fact, in the development history of thousands of years, farming culture has been deeply imprinted in the blood of China people, who are deeply attached to their hometown and land, and will only consider crossing the ocean to make a living unless they have to.

Therefore, several times in the history of China, China people went to sea because of war, famine or the passive choice of excessive population pressure, which was found all over the world.

The arrival of large-scale Chinese in Europe began to appear in Europe during the First World War. During the First World War, a large number of adult laborers in Britain and France were requisitioned as soldiers, which drastically reduced their own labor force. In order not to affect their own economy, they found China, who was also an ally at that time. China sent a large number of laborers to help Britain and France enrich their labor work, and later even participated in war work such as building fortifications.

After World War I, most of these people left Europe for home because they were homesick. Only a few people stay in Europe, form families with local people or live alone for a lifetime, but their efforts have also been recognized by Europeans.

Since then, after the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the reform and opening-up, more China people have come to Europe.

And these China people came to Europe with the dream of getting rich.

Chinese life in Europe

Although Europe is an open region, due to the long-term strict immigration policy with China, even today, only about 2 million China people live here. Compared with tens of millions of Chinese in Southeast Asia and America.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), except for some people who came to Europe through normal channels, quite a few people eventually became European citizens through other channels. This process seems simple, but it is full of twists and turns and dangers.

When they arrive in Europe, they often find that their work is not as good as others say. Europeans tend to treat China people with deep hostility. After all, in the past few decades, the western alternative propaganda and the arrival of China people will compete with local people for a few job opportunities, which makes them wary.

This makes most people in China living in Europe have to serve dishes in restaurants and do odd jobs such as manual labor in factories to make a living.

However, due to the hard-working nature of China people, most of them can survive the most difficult period.

Although they are doing the lowest-level jobs, it is these jobs that European locals are unwilling to do that give them room for development.

However, with the acceptance of many refugees from Africa and the Middle East in Europe in recent years, the local social environment has changed to some extent. Some gangsters know that China people have the habit of saving, so they often take China as the target of robbery.

Why are European Chinese unwilling to return to China for development?

In recent years, with the rapid development of China, the China market has provided a lot of opportunities for the whole world. However, although most Chinese in Europe will choose to return to China to visit relatives, they will not choose to return to China for development.

Why are European Chinese unwilling to return to China for development? Many people don't understand that what they do in Europe is mostly bottom-level work. What's so good about it? Why not go back to China with more opportunities and stay in Europe?

Actually, there are two reasons for this.

First of all, these people went through many hardships in those years and finally took root in Europe, became European citizens and gained the status of earning euros. It's embarrassing to have them back now.

Just like a story, someone sold their ancestral quadrangle and struggled abroad for 20 years. In this way, the assets they earned after their successful career are not as valuable as the original quadrangle, which is also an embarrassing situation that they try their best to avoid.