Forums > Living in Kunming > Smiles and China There are lots of studies and working papers about it:
www.china-mike.com/[...]
embots.dfki.de/mmc/mmc11/Luetal.pdf
www.plosone.org/[...]
jcc.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/11/28/0022022113513922
eview.anu.edu.au/cross-sections/vol6/pdf/ch08.pdf
And yes, you can blame it on Confucius. If you are inside the guanxi group, you smile. But you dont smile to people outside your guanxi group.
In 女子,女学 and 兒女英雄傳 it is described how a virtous woman is supposed to smile eg dont show your teeth...
The inside/outside guanxi thing also explains why Chinese poop next (and I really mean next to it) to the toilet in public toilets, but meet the hole and even flush the toilet in private.
Still, Chinese only pick and remember the things they want to. The above mentioned books also describe how a woman is supposed to behave, in which position to sleep, how to dress, how to approach husband and family and so on.
But to be honest, it's not a shame that a lot of cultural habits and traditions got lost during Maos time.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Cultural Colonialism The only authentic places on earth are the places where you cant buy coca cola: North Korea and Cuba
Forums > Living in Kunming > Cultural Colonialism The Chinese try to colonise themselves. The guy with the verruca took Karl Marx (German) ideas and opposed them upon his people. Obviously the people werent too happy about it. Besides, the real Karl Marx has nothing to do with what the Chinese understand. Well Chinese are very good at pick and choose. Every year a lot of Chinese travel to Germany to worship Marx.
==> colonising themselves
wear Italian clothes, drive German cars, drink French wine...
==> colonising themselves
still waiting for the sexual revolution in China though. About sexual education: China is lost, no hope
@blobbles: I havent seen that Chinese want to live like Americans. I hope they wont what a ecological disaster and there will be war all over the world (telling everybody that they have nuclear weapons instead of saying we want your ressouces, is not ok)
@laotou: Chinese always say that there have a 8000year long history, but that's there own definition. According to Western standarts definitely not.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Monthly expenses in Kunming rent: 2000kuai (fully furnished apartment in Green Lake area)
utility bills: 100kuai internet, 20kuai gas (cook every day at home), electricity 120kuai (no solar power only electric heater for water), water bill is only paid once a year
==> 2300kuai
Occasionaly eating out in Western and Chinese restaurants, but eat Western food at home (eg bread and cheese, cereal for breakfast) and buying a lot of fruit and dairy. Going out a the weekends to have a drink or two.
==> 2500kuai
plus travelling, clothes and so on
Forums > Living in Kunming > Cultural Colonialism Sure, forums are there to discuss things, but the way questions are asked reminds me of "The Sun".
And about transcending into other cultures. Maybe one day in the future, it will be normal for every Chinese to flush the toilet :-DD
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@HFCAMPO: I dont take drugs or smoke and never did. Back home I worked for an institution that takes care of drug addicts.
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@faraday: Now I see your point about khat. These sort of political decisions happen quite a lot. You never know if they were and to what extend they were influenced by the lobby.
Comming back to the point of discussion. I just believe, that no one has the right to decide who should live and who should be put to death. Especially supporting it by saying everyone should serve a purpose. That's faschist logic. I personnally dont think it's appropriate to say things like that neither in a forum nor in real life whether it's a joke or meant serious.
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@faraday: Khat is not harmless. There are a couple of studies from various organizations and from different countries that prove the opposite of what you just said.
And for HFCAMPO: Coming from a country without death penalty and where death penalty is also considered murder, your attitude makes me sick. But hey, only developing countries like Europe, Russia, Ruanda, Ukraine and so on banned the death penalty.
Well at least advanced countries like the States, Yemen, China and North Korea still keep it. And because Europe is not exporting lethal injections to the States anymore, you are even considering using the electric chair again and think it's ok to use some lethal injections without prior testing? As a convict has no right to get a painless death. C'mon even every vet from the countryside can put a dog to sleep...
And how do you define purpose? What about the obese, the sick, the disabled, the old, the homeless? The street children in East Europe and Russia sniffing glue and other things to life on the streets. People esp. women trapped in human trafficking are forced to take drugs to stop them from running away. Ampethamines and crystal meth were given to American, British, German and Japanese soldiers so that they can fight much longer and care less about the risks.
I suggest for next time, just think before you write something. It gets into this mmteacher kind of attitude.
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@HFCAMPO:
As I said before. You have to be very careful when you use sentence like "Get rid of the demand - just execute all drug users since they serve no purpose in any society."
This statement is inhuman! In my country the freedom of speech ends where human dignity is violated! Millions of people were killed because people said they dont serve any purpose. Shame on you, seriously!
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@HFCAMPO: Alcohol and cigarettes are also drugs.
'they serve no purpose in any society' you have to be very careful when you say somehting like that. It's very similar to what some people said between 1933 and 1945 in Germany about certain groups in society!