@Elisa.
This might help to answer your original question:
"Mainland industries bribing their way to quality-control certification"
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@Haali:
There are all different kinds of smiles in every country.
It's part of some of the working papers and studies I mentioned before.
@ifoundthetuna:
I couldnt agree more.
Cultures are developing all the time. People reevaluate and rethink values, habits and customs. Even if there is influence from outside, the people themselves still decicde what they want to give up and what they want to preserve.
India is a good example. They were a british colony for around 150 years. The british banned the cast system. After independence the cast system was also banned. But even nowadays the system is still present.
Language also reflects culture and concept of thinking. According to that only, Chinese are rascist and sexist.
Just imagine the following scene in your own home country.
Shouting "black people, black people" while touching the skin of the person to see if it's real.
"foreigner foreigner!" when seeing a Chinese.
"Beautiful girl! Such a yellow skin! Your skin is so yellow" while touching (without permission) the persons hair and skin.
You are in a club a man comes up to you "You and me sex tonight?! How much does it cost"
"What do you mean, you are not that kind of person?! I thought all Chinese are open (minded)!" (their 'knowledge' is based on porn movies and foreign girls working in KTV and in clubs.
In my home country in these cases you would call the police or security. In China, other foreigners (!) think it's ok and try to find excuses for this behaviour...
@mmteacher
Question:
Is foot binding valid?
Is 重男轻女 valid?
And about rape. In a lot of countries, rape inside a marriage is not considered as rape.
@mmteacher: Sorry, but not all cultural habits are worth preserving.
Read the above mentioned books and we can talk about whether those habits had any legitimation to be preserved.
One good thing about Mao, he finally banned the foot binding
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havent been there in months, because I wasnt too impressed. but some friends and I thought we should give it a try again.
This was definitely the last time we went there... very unfriendly staff who dont pay any attention and the owner asking you whether you cant squeeze in the last slice of pizza when she cleared the table...
About the pizza, very oily and low quality products used for making it
Kunming neighborhoods face water rationing
Posted byAs I said before: Complete mismanagement and ignorance. What really makes me laugh is, on the one hand it's drought, but they still water the plants in my xiaoqu with tap water and of course in the afternoon when sun is at it's peak. On the other hand when it's raining, and heavy rain is very common here, everything is flooded within minutes.
By the way, who helps the elderly people to carry their water buckets into their apartment?
Life in Kunming: A cabbie's perspective
Posted by@magnifico: In China everyone asks anyone about their income. Also about your age. Back home a no go, but here absolutely fine.
Plus, it's a general question about this particular industry. Might even be the case, that taxi drivers here in China have a good income not like the ones back home.
Still waiting for the answer of the question: How much does a taxi driver make per month?
Kunming neighborhoods face water rationing
Posted by@Elisa: Good question, because for watering the streets 中水 (reclaimed water) is used not tap water.
Kunming neighborhoods face water rationing
Posted byThe questions is: What causes the drought? Is it the vast destruction of the environment (cutting down forests, removing whole mountains, building dams and so on) or is it only because of climate change as some Chinese government 'experts' say. If you know the answer, you can solve the problem instead of just cutting the water supply.
Second question: Does Kunming and Yunnan use up more water then they posses?
Growing agricultural and flower sector (plants need water and animals use up huge amounts of water during their lifetime), changing life style (cars, meat and so on), mining, construction sites (you need water for mixing concrete and while the concrete dries) and so on
Are there ways to use the water more efficient and not waste it?
Non leaking pipelines and more clarification plants...
I clearly doubt, that any of the government officials would ever think that far. Beijing is the best example. They havent got enough water, so they redirect water from the Yangtze river which is just 1500km away. Not considering the vital consequences...
Kunming neighborhoods face water rationing
Posted byThe problem is not the drought. It's the complete mismanagement of precious ressources. Instead of spending money on the construction and maintainance of the water system (pipelines) and the waste water system including clarification plants, Yunnans officials rather spend it on prestige buildings. Why? Because the officials on the next higher level will only judge on what they see, meaning above surface.
It's very easy: If you already havent got enough of something, dont waste it.