All I'm saying is that giving white people preferences and privileges feels like we're taking a step backward. The "White is better" attitude is RAMPANT and we don't need to do anything more to encourage it. And please don't give me another metaphor comparing civil rights and equality to using the ladies' room. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

I'm tired of the B.A.ness and negative attitudes coming off from some of you people. That includes you Piers and your blasé attitude that says "Oh well, we don't need you people as customers anyway." This is actually a more serious topic than you realize, and if you were Asian, I guarantee your perspectives and opinions would be different.

BTW, if I were you, I'd tell your boss that this is a bad business strategy. Foreigners are not going to go back without free alcohol unless they actually like the club and it has decent parties. Plus, the Chinese money is what you're after anyway. They're the big spenders in Kundu.

PS Even though I don't see what the connection is, I'd just like to point out that people who are good bargainers and savvy shoppers probably are not going to get ripped off that much, regardless of their foreigner status. China has an extreme bargaining culture and sellers want to make money while buyers want to save money. Have fun with it.

Ironic how the only people getting their panties in a bunch are the ones saying it. Calm the heck down.

I think that the original ad (for the first night) did say free beer for foreigners, which is what started out this whole topic in the first place.

It's not being PC or not PC. I know that the organizers of Cargo club are going to offer the free beer to everyone and that it's a business strategy, but think about it...

Would something like that fly in the US? You can tell foreigners apart pretty easily in China so advertising free beer for foreigners is basically being anti-Chinese. When foreigners get special preferences or deals or promotions, it really drives me crazy. Chinese people should be your market, so why have them pay when foreigners one table away are chugging a free bottle of liquor? That's why I don't go to Yunjoy Coffee, which has been extremely racist in the past.

Kudos to Alyssa for helping in this club promotion, though... Please don't take this as a criticism of you, I'm just jumping in on the discussion :)

Additionally, I did Joy in Action a year or so ago and it was amazing! www.joyinaction.org/eng/jia_03.html

Here are three summer volunteering programs in education for those who are interested:

www.ruralchina.org/site/ Rural China Education Foundation

www.dreamcorps.org/ Dream Corps

www.zigen.org/index.html Zigen Fund (they used to have a program, but I'm not as sure about now)