中國人真的是世界上最現實的嗎大綱
A new survey claims that in China, peopleidentify their success by the things they own more than in any other country inthe world. But is this so unusual in a developing country?
一項新的調查稱，中國人比任何國家都傾向將物質財富作爲衡量成功的標準。但是這在發展中國家會少見嗎？
A recent survey conducted by globalresearch firm IPSOS across 20 countries, found that a whopping 71 percentof Chinese say they gauge their success by the things they own. That’ssignificantly higher than it was for every other country included in thesurvey.
全球調查公司益普索集團最近對20個國家進行了一項調查，調查發現多達百分之七十一的中國人以自己的財富作爲衡量自己成功的標準。這個數字遠遠高於其他受調查的國家。
The tendency to equate material goods withoverall success seems to have, at least in part, surfaced from societal ese were also the most likely to feel pressured to be successful and makemoney.
這種將物質財富等同於成功的傾向至少有部分是社會強加的。中國人也最可能會有成功和賺錢的壓力。
Chinese shoppers are the now world’sbiggest buyers of luxury items, accounting for nearly a third of globalpurchases, according to consulting firm Bain & Co. Five years ago China accountedfor little over 10 percent of global luxury purchases. Even amid a governmentcrackdown on corruption and lavish government spending—which once accounted fora good deal of the country’s luxury purchases—China’s taste for fancy things has remained strong. That’s inpart because Chinese are buying luxury goods overseas, with some two-thirds oftheir luxury purchases now outside China. China’s tastefor luxury is such that even its funeral industry is moving to capitalize on the trend.
據貝恩諮詢公司，中國現在是世界上最大的奢侈品消費市場，其購買力佔了全球的三分之一。五年前，中國在全球的奢侈品購買力僅略高於百分之十。儘管在政府鎮壓腐敗和鋪張浪費行爲期間——這是該國大量奢侈品的消費源頭——中國對奢侈品的追求勢頭依舊強勁。一部分因爲他們是在國外進行購買，他們現在約有三分之二的奢侈品是在國外購買的。中國對奢侈品如此趨之若鶩，以致殯葬業也趕來利用這一市場趨勢。
On the whole, there appears to be acorrelation between the stage of a country’s development and its tendency toequate money with success. China,India and Brazil, threeof the world’s most noteworthy developing countries, were all among thelikeliest to measure success by material belongings. In fact, a deeper diveinto the data shows that while Chinese agreed most that success ismeasured by the things one owns, Brazilians and Indians were actually morelikely to “strongly agree” with the statement. Developed countries,like Germany, Japan, the U.S.,and the U.K.,on the other hand, were among the least likely by all measures.
總之，國家的發展階段和將金錢等同於成功的傾向似乎存在這聯繫。中國，印度和巴西這三個世界上最顯著的發展中國家位居最可能將物質財富等同於成功的國家之列。事實上，更深入研究這些數據後會發現，雖然中國用物質財富來衡量成功的人最多，但有更多的巴西人和印度人“堅定地贊成”這一方式。相反，德國，日本，美國和英國這些發達國家則是最不可能有如此衡量方式的國家。
