总体上说，日本人很保守。

On the whole, the Japanese are conservative.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 总体上说 zǒngtǐshàngshuō
  1. looking at the big picture
  2. all in all
  3. all things considered
=2 日本人 Rìběnrén Japanese person or people
=2 日本人 rìběnrén Japanese person
3 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
4 保守 bǎoshǒu
  1. conservative
  2. to guard
  3. to keep