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Forums > Travel Yunnan > What exactly is a backpacker?

@forlorn, all of the characteristics you've mentioned really pop up, but your stereotype of the average backpacker is absolutely ridiculous. I don't know where you've been or what you've done, but I know what you haven't.
It does seem to me, though, that more & more of them have been behaving like bubble-tourists over the past 15-20 years, and are admittedly not as tame/sheeplike - in Laos on tour buses, for example. Sad and annoying. I agree that a backpack does not a backpacker make.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > PayPal scam

Yeah, I did a dumb thing, not thinking clearly, but didn't give away passwords or anything - usually I'm smart enough to just avoid these things, but I guess the lesson is that if you're bombarded with enough of them over a long enough period of time, one day your brain won't be fully engaged because you're out of coffee or something and you'll hit the wrong key or just be curious or something and whoops finito bongo.
I think mass advertising works on the same principle, except instead of just being robbed you wind up with something you didn't want and can't afford, like say a statue of Queen Victoria for your living room...

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I read Winnington's book - pretty sure the guy was a British Communist - and I disagree about the comparison with Kurtz in Heart of Darkness, which was sheer colonialist racism (fictional, of course).

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Dai, Lowland Lao and Thai peoples all have ancestors from China - not all within China became 'sinicized' - the Dai did not, though they have been becoming increasingly sinicized more recently. Until recent centuries, and even into recent centuries, contact between the Dai and Lao and Thai and other Tai groups continued - modern nationalist borders are more strongly established, and the areas within them more culturally colonized, than those of former empires and kingdoms.

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Try other night market areas in Kunming, the one on Wenhuaxiang has gotten...weird, over the last 4-5 years. I have a feeling many of the folks who go there, mostly in their 20s & 30s, to 'shop', think of it as somehow a 'fashionable' place.

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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.