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.
Nowhere to kowtow in barren fields
发布者What I'm saying is, that in the current situation the political significance of the name is more important than whatever the British decided to call it. And accepted English politic-geographic names do change (e.g., Bombay is now Mumbai in English, Persia became Iran (the name that Iranis themselves use)). It's all okay with me, but you are right to consider the political significance of names.
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发布者The name by which the country should be called should be left to the people of the country. The opposition to the name Myanmar within Burma and outside of it has come mostly from politicized people who oppose the governments of the past few decades, who renamed it Myanmar. I'm not sure how much this is an issue for those people today, but I'll be happy with whatever the people decide.
Foreign names for countries, including English names them, often have odd origins and this is rarely a real issue for anyone concerned, but in the Myanmar/Burma situation they have taken on political significance. I usually call the place Burma, because I really think that, in the last 52 years at least, the government has been little short of horrible. If you say that 'Burma' is the preferred term for the country among its inhabitants today you may well be right, but I really don't know.
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@HFCampo: Your description of smoking/nicotine addiction is ok but most smokers do not continually need to smoke more & more - I don't smoke any more now than I did decades ago.
Also, I don't understand why this is stealing from one's family.
I agree with you that nicotine addiction is a problem, and that this legal drug (nicotine) does more damage than some (not all) of the illegal drugs that you are so against.
Seems to me that, if, as you say, we cannot define which drugs should be illegal and which illegal, as the governments that you don't respect have all the power in this regard, it would also be the case that we have no power to oppose drugs like nicotine that are legal.
So - there are problems with drugs, both legal and illegal. What to do?
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发布者Introduction to the article: the CEF troops were not PRC government military forces operating outside the PRC's borders because the PRC did not then exist. Neither was the CEF a Communist Party unit, though there may have been a few individual communist troops within it.
Nowhere to kowtow in barren fields
发布者On translation 'Burmese': the clearest way to distinguish ethnicity in the country once called Burma is to use the word 'Burmese' to refer to all citizens of Burma; the majority ethnic group in Burma are best called Burmans. Other ethnic groups are Karen, Kachin, Shan, etc.