Forums > Living in Kunming > Chinese tourist in Paris I don't think France has sold its soul for Chinese money, and whether it has opened its doors to immigration or not has nothing to do with Chinese tour groups, which are not groups of immigrants. Seems spitting on the floor by mainland Chinese tourists is already on the radar, however.
I doubt if many Chinese have immigrated to Paris, or that those who have are the ones spitting on the floor.
I have a friend who is a Chinese tourguide and has taken groups to Paris, who affirms that there is very little interest in French culture among them and that little if any is provided by the tourguides. The main thing seems to be shopping.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Chinese tourist in Paris Group tourism strikes me as only slightly more educational than the average tv show, and usually a good bit less than a BBC documentary (or - my God! - a whole book!) Just another consumer item, promoted by the consciously or unconsciously cynical for profit.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Chinese tourist in Paris I don't like it either.
Especially seems disgusting among people from cultures where it is considered disgusting.
Forums > Food & Drink > Foreign takeout delivery service @ Geezer: Elliott is in Shanghai importing wine.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Leaving China ...only ordinary problems, the main one being the incredible boredom and phoniness (it is this I find 'grueling') of commercial air flights and their plastic atmosphere when it lasts more than about 1&1/2 hours (airports are very similar), and less than 1&1/2 hours they're both unnecessary and ecologically damaging. Felt the same 40 years ago. Doubt if I'd like Michael's problem described above either, but for me that's not the main thing.
When I leave China it's on the surface, unless I'm crossing large bodies of water. Looking for inexpensive (as it should be but isn't anymore - costs the shipping company virtually nothing beyond meals) passenger-carrying freighters.
Life in Kunming: A cabbie's perspective
发布者Understanding how the benefits of a society are distributed tells you things about that society. Cabbies and English teachers aren't excluded from any useful analysis. This article is about cabbies.
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@HFCampo: the Buddhist viewpoint is indeed a good one in many ways, though I'm not sure I agree about the reincarnation or necessary addiction in yr next life - however, the Buddhist idea is pretty much that its all about an addiction to life, per se, in the material realm etc. Not too far from that of the US writer William Burroughs, who was a serious junky and a serious writer - his sometimes hard-to-read literary approach used his own addiction to junk as a metaphor for life itself - it's all addiction (to sex, food, money...you name it). Trying to break out of the cycle of birth & rebirth etc. - all about karma, both within one's present life and within any rebirths. However, in these terms I'm still addicted to life and so am neither quite convinced nor unconvinced of the validity of this argument nor, at any rate, enlightened enough to get beyond it.
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@HFCampo: If your wife likes coca-cola and drinks it regularly and you never do, is she stealing from the family?
Life in Kunming: A cabbie's perspective
发布者Twelve hours is a long time. Cabbies in Oslo seem to do 12 hours also. How much to Aussie cabbies take home?
Nowhere to kowtow in barren fields
发布者P.S. Taiwan was long called Formosa by English speakers - from the Portuguese language.