@Campo, I don't think anybody is going to argue about your decency in helping the girl pick up her bike, but not all of your examples are like that.
@Neddy: I agree with a lot of what you say, but saying that things are 'cultural' doesn't make them sacred - culture is in the process of change all the time, and there's nothing wrong with reasoning about what those changes might be. So I don't spit on the street, and nobody is offended by my not spitting. But I agree with you about not Commanding people to adopt what I may think of as better practices, first because I'm not so smart as to think I'll always be right in doing so and secondly because it offends people and is likely to be counterproductive.
And Campo, I'm not saying that you do this, but you often write as if you do.
None of this should be hard to understand. It's not cultural differences that have to be a problem, it's that cultural arrogance almost always is.
@Campo: I agree, everything within your perimeter is indeed your responsibility, but your perimeter intersects those of others at some point so that much of it is within their perimeter too, they may have different ideas about responsibility, and unless they've elected you General it's a good idea to work out what the responsibilities are collectively. IMHO.
@Campo: I didn't see anything about AIP, which sounds scary, on the site, but I didn't search it thoroughly. Although I'm not terribly worried about the dangers of vaccinations (although it seems the jury is still out on some of them), it does bother me when the state wants to be my father. Parents are, ipso facto bottom line, authoritarians, and sometimes act as if their children are private possessions; when the state assumes parenthood of the people (e.g., confucian ideology, which is not dead in China, and also among marxist-leninists), the people have little recourse, and considerable tendencies, to behave like children.
Then again, there is a significant amount of bad parenting around, and I think kids should be considered to have 'rights'.
Who's to decide these things?
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.
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.
Volunteers needed to help Lufeng schools
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