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.
Kunming police now permitted to carry sidearms
发布者All worth considering, although it's all speculation. Anyway, although local cops may not particularly like foreigners, I don't notice anything I'd call the evil eye - just the expectation of possible verbal trouble if they have to deal with them. I think the implication that foreigners would be likely targets of choice in some melee is highly unlikely.
A glimpse into the life of a Kunming fruit seller
发布者I imagine sensualists of all stripes have noticed that it's now mango season. I think I'd buy mangoes on wechat about as fast as I'd order mail-order brides. My appreciation of these people, and the fine friendly lady who sells fruit on my streetcorner, for keeping life here several jumps ahead of unadulterated electronic supermarket culture - which, I guess, has its strong points, but not when it comes to mangoes.
Kunming opens province's first 'baby refuge'
发布者I would say the idea of the bonus was a good one, and might well be practiced elsewhere, if it were not for the fact that it discriminates against the poor. But then almost everything everywhere discriminates against the poor.
Interview: Environmentalist Li Yuan
发布者On not wasting water: a simple thing that anyone can do who has a bathtub is to leave the water for baths, showers, washing clothes, etc. in the tub and then using it to flush the toilet.
Yunnan dam structurally unsound, repairs in limbo
发布者Good time to start using less water and electricity - industrial 'progress' is clearly not the free ride it was thought to be some 150-200 years ago.