If you've not lived outside your own culture, before, the first 6 months or so are usually the hardest - some adapt faster than others. Best not to overprotect yourself with familiar things too much, at least for a time, & realize that cultural differences are also psychological differences and the formation of appropriate habits and not about what you might take to be 'common sense', which is not culturally neutral and not a matter of conformity to some objective standard. When you find yourself obsessed by minor annoyances, chill out & realize you've simply got a way to go before things will begin to fit together comfortably. Minor annoyances will become just that - minor. But zillions of people manage to do it successfully.


China hands out happy city awards, Kunming sad
发布者Social cooperation is also hard-wired into the individuals of an innately social species such as ourselves, without which the individuals of our species would not have survived to pass on any genes..Rouseau's 'noble savage' never existed, both he and Hobbes were wrong.
China hands out happy city awards, Kunming sad
发布者Subjective reports of happiness mean something, but I'm not sure what.
Kunming smells part II: The good, the bad and the ugly
发布者You get used to it all after awhile, as most of Kunming's 7 million inhabitants surely have.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
发布者@nnoble: don't follow - who or what is rotting? I can think of various candidates, but I'm not sure which one you're talking about.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
发布者There are economic issues concerning education in China for very poor communities, which obviously need a bigger share of the economic pie than they are getting. Yet China's 'socialist market economy' is increasing the overall level of economic resources within China.
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