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Forums > Living in Kunming > hilarious article

'Kunming is worse'...what are you talking about?

What's hilarious about this article? It's about what I'd expect, though I haven't witnessed the Chinese in Paris lately.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Does your gf pay rent?

@Haali, I pretty much agree with you. However, if the woman is expected to take care of the house & kids, there's a practicality to it that empowers her somewhat in a situation and advantages the man (he doesn't have to worry about details he can't understand) where she cannot work outside the home (e.g., before modern times in China), so you can see how it became the major cultural practice.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Do NOT marry a Chinese woman

@mockingbird So education means 'the process of learning'? How can you either have or not have that? What kind of family culture and values would you look for? Why do you think 'educated women' (those who are engaged in the process of learning...something..., right?) are 'more sensible' (by this term I assume you mean sensible in relation to ordinary daily living' or something, would that be it)?

Actually, I'd figured you were talking about people who've had a good deal of formal schooling, which can be (but is not necessarily) a real aid in trying to understand the behavior of people from elsewhere - although I think it's perhaps more important to have a we-can-work-it-out attitude, which I don't think comes from formal schooling.

It must be remembered that a foreigner in China is in a much better situation in terms of possibilities for learning about Chinese culture behavior etc. than a Chinese person had for learning about anywhere else and has rarely been out of the country. Now, I think 'ignorance' is as dodgy a term as 'education' - but how many foreigners here take advantage of their advantage and learn?

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@Dazzer: But I am interested in answers, and what they indicate (e.g., when few people acquire enormous amounts of wealth, influence, power and publicity and then give some of it to causes that THEY choose, what does this indicate? And what does it indicate to recognize that they can choose NOT to do so and be protected by the law?).

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@HFCampo: in your history research you might notice a number of changes in the world over the past 2000 or 200 years, or perhaps over the past 2 minutes, and that even history written by 'the rich' makes a note of these changes.
@Dazzer: the system that put all that wealth in the hands of the people you mention is the same system that created the problems these people now have been empowered to decide to influence, as THEY choose, in one way or another. I didn't choose to give them this power to decide where money should go, did you?

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It's not that the poor play the lottery because they're greedy, it's that greed is the basis of the whole system of exploitation/'suck-cess' and control of production/distribution that assures there will be few rich/powerful and many poor/weak. So the poor pay for gym equipment in parks for the elderly, who are not too well-off either.
@HFCampo: what makes you think the world doesn't change? When did history stop?

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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.