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We are more or less indoctrinated everywhere to celebrate all sorts of things from a self-congratulatory perspective. However, it's not impossible to adapt different, more useful perspectives.
@Magnifico:Nope, I don't expect it, but it's not impossible to, at the least, bring people to the awareness that there can be more to history, and therefore to an understanding of the present, than the fairy stories we've been brought up on. So eat the turkey if you want (sorry, Gompo) and use yr head, and that will be one more person with a little more clarity. Ignorance of the past means inability to understand the present and inability to act for the future, which is not set in concrete but which grows out of what we do or don't do daily. Everything has consequences, as the Indians who took up the offer of the Pilgrims who threw the party found out - we should, and can, know more now than they knew then.

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Forums > Study > ABC coming to Kunming, looking to improve Chinese

@jhding: If your main goal is improving your Chinese, I suggest you 1. take classes and 2. hang around your neighborhood, friends and any family you might have - hell, there's no problem finding Chinese speakers in Kunming. Learning Chinese over foosball at Moondog strikes me as weird; I'm not too sure about museums & concerts for learning to speak Chinese. Drinking in bars where virtually all customers are Chinese might be a good idea.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.