As China's economy has grown to be the second largest in the world, the media in the United States has paid greater attention to China and Americans are slowly becoming slightly more aware of China. However, after living in China for a while, on top of several visits prior to that and reading dozens of books about China, I realize that a lot of what Americans (and other Westerners) think we know about China isn't completely accurate (and is sometimes completely inaccurate). One thing that I find amusing are all the so-called (and usually self-proclaimed) China experts that keep cropping up in the media. The latest I've come across is actor Richard Gere. In an article entitled "Richard Gere Labels China the Largest Hypocrisy in the World," Gere labeled China "the largest hypocrisy in the world right now." Exactly how he came to that determination or what evidence he has to support it is unclear. I've lived most of my life in America, but the past few years in China and to be honest, I see hypocrisy in both places in somewhat differing ways, but maybe not to a dramatically differing extent.
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