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Forums > Living in Kunming > Real Catholic Church

@ vicar: I don't get what you mean by 'sinner donations' or the existence of a huge market of them. I gather 'not a real' Catholic church means because it doesn't recognize the pope's authority?

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Incredibly rude floor staff , Chinese Eastern

Again, I'm not doubting anybody's stories, but I've just flown Kunming Chiangmai-Kunming on China eastern and observed nothing that anybody would call rudeness. No other hitches either - plane had 2 wings, arrivals and departures were precisely on time, etc.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Real Catholic Church

Geezer may well be right, and I agree with cloudtrapezer about the issue of internationalism - or should we substitute the doctrine of nationalism (either as the doctrine that the species is irretrievably and metaphysically divided into nations or that any one nation is an entity demanding religious or pseudo-religious recognition as a matter of Faith) for Catholicism? I don't think so. But note that I hold no particular brief for the Pope or papacy either.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > This is crazy. What's next?

@ liumingke: I agree, face scanning to prevent theft of toilet paper, crazy. And such a control-freakish tendency is indeed ominous, as well as ridiculous. I suggest the bog-roll-provision people learn to roll with it once in awhile, rather than to try to pin everybody down like bugs. If they are going to be obsessed by this kind of real serious first-degree thievery, what else are they likely to get obsessed by?
Given this kind of opportunity for convenience, I'd much rather just go on carrying my own toilet paper around and wait for the state to get real.

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True about how Laos has little credit, but it seems you're comparing Lao-Chinese national relations with those of brothers, and I think that kind of metaphor is a bit overused - national ruling classes, who make or break agreements and devise policies etc. in the name of 'nations', have interests, not friends, as has been famously stated by...who was that guy? Sometimes these interests coincide, at least for a while, but there is usually a dominant partner/class group.

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A little confused, not sure how to think about this - seems to me that both Chinese and Lao interests will benefit from the RR - so why should Laos have to pay for ALL of it?

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Sounds okay so far, near as one can tell - but an open question: who benefits most, in terms of money and/or power (or, or that matter, anything else), from the creation of such tourist spaces and cultures, and where do they live? Is it all win-win? And how might it be calculated?

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Went there once and found it interesting just to wander around the surrounding area on my own - plenty of interesting limestone outside the designated area, & people you meet are neither tourists nor people trying to sell you tourist experiences. And of course it's free.

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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.