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Forums > Travel Yunnan > hotels in Yunnan

Is there a wide range of hotels open to booking online? I don't know, have never booked a hotel online, at least not in China .

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Forums > Living in Kunming > We're going to be ranked and categorized.

JanJal has probably got it - mostly an attempt to streamline a complicated system. Whether you like the system is another matter. Good idea to get qualified and certified, as Campo says, makes sense. I take Goldie's point as well - obviously, it is a matter of discrimination in favor of the more highly trained (and also in favor of those with a lot of cash under their supervision), and it is a national policy and a matter of national competition, but I don't think it means any upswing in xenophobia. I don't think it's got much to do with socialism either. I expect discrimination on the basis of nationality will continue, as it's pretty much standard operating procedure within the widely-accepted global regime of competing nations.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > We're going to be ranked and categorized.

Do many governments do something like this? Many certainly discriminate on the basis of nationality. I'm not sure what it will mean that one's categorized qualifications will appear on the resident permit itself, but I don't think it looks good. Apparently Shanghai doesn't care how old you are if you have something to do with managing or directing large amounts of corporate capital. Might this be called socialist(?) class discrimination, with a mercantilist hangover?
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Forums > Living in Kunming > Hump, Obama and a punch

Peter, you are no longer discussing your own subject, which was hump/obama/punch - or, rather, your own subject is always the same: Badshit is gonna happen in China, and foreigners better look out.
Thanks for the warning.

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Then there were French racist 'scientists' who thought that Algerians' head shapes showed they were likely to become criminals - this after decades of French colonization, discriminatory laws, lack of political rights, etc. When the Algerians made revolution, which rarely is carried out without breaking laws, this was interpreted as proof. See Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth.

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@Magnifico: Nonsense - crime is simply that which is against the law, and laws are socially created, not genetically defined. You can't be hard-wired to break laws - your genes can't possibly know what the law is.

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@laotou: I agree, though it's also important to pay attention to what else comes aboard when you have an anti-corruption drive, and also to the situation which causes corruption to keep popping up - e.g., the ideal is not to have a society in which everybody who breaks the law is in jail, but one that does not produce crime. Probably impossible, but moving in that direction will get you closer to that goal than not doing so.

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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.

As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.

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Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.

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Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.