Forums > Living in Kunming > New Coronavirus Laws, morality, philosophy etc could be considered just another dimension of competing against other nations (or whatever teams, or even individuals) that lack such. Increasing stability of our society to give us edge against less stable societies. Just a more advanced extension of our biology and primal urges.
Developed countries, or citizens therein, may slowly be moving beyond whatever, but that could mean just moving the goal - not changing the game.
But I give that eventually it's better to compete against others with cleaner environment or fairer society, than wheels of industry or weapons for example.
Forums > Living in Kunming > New Coronavirus As far as the problems surrounding definition of "greatest nation" go, personally I believe that for most part it is competition that got humanity this far. It brought us most of both the good and bad that we have, or what we are.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Possible free 2 month visa extension I want to clarify this - do you guys really go to local police registration offices for visa extensions rather than to the Entry & Exit bureau on Tuodong Lu? I thought that's the only place it can be done in Kunming.
I'm pretty sure our local PSB can't do anything but housing registration.
Forums > Living in Kunming > New Coronavirus I think it'll be like what goes around comes around.
China will lower defenses and get hit by the curve ball heading back.
To continue on something I mentioned earlier, which is that now there are lot of people stuck in their apartments among themselves, and birth rates later in the year will go up.
These babies might grow up with face masks on right out of the womb, and in general in more sanitary environment than babies only recently have.
However, the first year in newborn life is crucial in coming contact with environment and building up resistance to more common nasty things (than Covid) that surround us.
So I speculate that while we might see more babies born this and possibly next year, we might also witnes that generation suffering more from asthma and/or worse sicknesses, that in more developed nations have generally been attributed to over-clinical environments in homes.
Update: Officials fired after school stampede kills six
Posted byIn extreme poverty, people will even limit survival to that of their own person.
This has been reported, for example, from DPRK prison camps with family members turning on each other to survive.
In today's China you cannot make this comparison to DPRK, but China's history has left its marks in people's behavior today.
Update: Officials fired after school stampede kills six
Posted byThe staff of the school, from the top to the janitor, was trying to increase their profits by not implementing proper storage for the sleeping mattresses.
Update: Officials fired after school stampede kills six
Posted byIf I interpret Mike correctly, he is referring to general attitude of average Chinese person toward other human beings, nature, and generally everything other than himself and his immediate family.
For long time China was poor country, and it still reflects in many parts of the society. One is, that average Chinese will always put his own survival and benefit first.