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Forums > Living in Kunming > Moving to Kunming, today!

Try Salvador's Coffeeshop, on Wenhuaxiang just off Wenlin jie (street) in the old (original) university district, and/or several other cafes, restaurants and bars in that area, and keep up with the learning of Chinese, you'll be happier and a lot more connected and less confused by ordinary life here.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Biking in Wuhua

I'm sure there are blatantly faked accidents somewhere, sometime, but has anybody here ever had one? I don't think it's worth worrying about. As far as 'never happens to Chinese', I've heard of such, from the same sources I've heard of concerning foreigners - rumor, chatlines, etc. I don't get overcharged in my local market, but it does help to develop a sense of what things should cost (vegetables, meat, etc.) - yeah, it could happen, but I think people should be quite sure of themselves before they start self-righteously raising hell in public - a better reaction is usually just to suggest the price you want politely and then walk away if you don't get it - you'll get nowhere trying to make people lose face in public. I suppose I've been slicked once or twice, but I'm 'of European descent' and I don't feel persecuted here.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > vaccinations for children

I assume that, in general, vaccination is safer for kids than not having them vaccinated. That's a pretty gross statement and I can't prove it, but I don't have to deal with it as I don't have kids to vaccinate or not. If you do, I think you'd better look at the issue very carefully and from different scientific authorities and not just accept whatever opinions happen to be lying around in your social circle - you don't want to be killing your kids by not vaccinating them, etc.
Despite the fears of some, I don't think eugenics has anything to do with the issue. As for the ongoing population problem, note that it is the children of the more wealthy, not those of the less wealthy, who use up much higher percentages of the world natural resources, produce more pollution etc., and that 'modernization, which the relatively wealthy globally restrict access to globally, that everywhere reduces the birth rates. In other words, the rising global income gap is the major population threat and the class and national divisions of the planet threaten the future of the species.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > vaccinations for children

@HF Campo: thanks for the info, but it tells me that, as I wrote, nothing is 100% safe. The real question is, how often/how widespread and in which vaccinations do serious dangers pop up? And all this in relation to the dangers of not being vaccinated, and not being vaccinated against what, specifically.

I hold no brief for that %#@*& Kissinger, but the statement above concerning 'depopulation' is not clearly about killing people off with vaccinations - it could be about birth control, and doesn't necessarily imply the use of force - anyway, screw his advice.

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I kind of liked the atmosphere around the old Workers' Cultural Palace, and I'm not seduced by the identification of tall buildings with 'progress'. As for the name - "what's in a name"? Perhaps the state might ease off a bit about presenting us all with the identities that they would like us to have.

@ Tiger: as you say, for many societies. But the issue of wealth and power often seems to play a part in differing levels of religious attachment among different classes and subgroups within a 'people' as well, as well as in differing types and degrees of attachment.

Religions from 'abroad' have been accepted all over the place for a long time - e.g., the acceptance of forms of Christianity by Germans, Ethiopians, Mexicans, etc. at different times in history. The idea of climate change is different, unless you want to categorize scientific methodology itself as a religious doctrine, which can lead to an interesting philosophical argument, but I don't think we ought to go into it here.

@ octobersky: OK, but the fact is that religious beliefs change over time anyway, at least partially as a function of changes in material circumstances - e.g., rain gods are just not going to remain as important to people who, in their daily lives, are decreasingly reliant on rainfall. So I don't think it can all be seen as a simple matter of native-religion-appropriate/religion-from-outside bad - it's not simply some matter of 'brainwashing' imposed from the outside, since a real 'brainwash' would require complete control over local minds etc., which is always an impossibility, even with a lot more information control than any bunch of missionaries ever had.

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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.