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.
Provincial authorities get serious about poverty
发布者This is all a bit unclear but seems to be a move in the right direction.
Earth's budget deficit at 160%, hope stems from trees
发布者Wouldn't be a bad idea for people to use their own brains and start not screwing up the planet, rather than continuing to do so until they are ordered not to and then complaining about the source of authority.
Tourist arrest in Yunnan underscores larger national problem
发布者The amazing thing is the degrees to which some tourists go in causing trouble over the smallest and most minor things. A commodity -ownership mentality ("I bought my visit to these exotic and weird people and I have a right to do whatever I want to with them").
I do indeed believe in the need to prevent the biting and slapping of tourguides, even though they are major players in the whole commercialized circus, which spreads its tents wherever there are packages to be sold and money to be made.
Friction of terrain: Cycling through Zomia (part II)
发布者So I'm not supposed to worry?
Earth's budget deficit at 160%, hope stems from trees
发布者@ Campo, I don;t think anybody's been lying.