CHINA AND THE US

Many persons in the US have very ignorant conception of Chinese, derived in part from eating in Chinese Restaurants and seeing portrayals of Orientals, many of whom are NOT Chinese, in various movies, from the early silents to the latest Bollywoods/KUNGFU types. Most Americans could never learn even the simplest Chinese expressions not to mention the complete inability to write what they term as 'characters', which are,in truth, much more capable of expressing concepts and ideas than most English words or sentences! Believe it or not! More will be said about this. My struggles with Chinese are more far along than any of my struggles with Sanskrit! But I have barely begun to study languages which is a lacking side to my 'education' and that of most Americans who have been brought up to disdain all other languages in general for a number of reasons.