and @yankee, its not just plantation behavior. I know numerous rich Indian, Thai and Chinese families who think their sons having a white girlfriend/wife is a trophy, but their daughters/other women marrying a white guy is tantamount of betraying their entire culture and race.
@Alien, yes I've heard it many, many, many times in China and North America. Pretty common complaint for multi-racial kids whose mom is "white" and dad isn't. Whereas all my friends who had the reverse situation with a white dad and non-white mom usually got comments about how cute and exotic their mother was.
Not sure its a witch hunt... most people couldn't care less where anyone posts online or doesn't post. If someone wants to return on a site like GK over and over again, no harm done as it's an open forum. Personally I just find people's netiquette amusing, particularly the types who make a big show of being offended and leaving and then heading back to repeat the cycle. Regardless of motivation in returning though, welcome back to tomman/MM/lala/wtf.
Random point, but humans do not all digest food the same way. Different groups of people inhabiting different areas of the globe have evolved to extract different nutrients from different sources. In this case, some ethnic populations can be quite healthy with a vegetarian diet, whereas other ethnic groups who have historically had higher protein/dairy diets may sometimes find themselves malnourished from the same veggie diets.
@Matt,
Considering you've changed your name 3 times (tomman, mm, and now this one) and keep saying that you are done with GK, only to then come back with a new user name, there doesn't seem to be much of a conspiracy theory as there is a statement of reality. Moreover, your posts are largely the same, and do not often seem to come out of any logical place (IE, why start a thread about where to meet Chinese women when in the past you have posted at length about living like a king/local with your Chinese girlfriend; why ask about why foreigners eat bad food only to say that you know all the reasons and that all other opinions are subordinate to yours, because you are a chef/teacher/sociologist/psychiatrist/gastronomist/scientist/guru/ who obviously knows better).
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Slight unrated update here... I was in again and spoke to Sandra's partner, and he agreed there could be a greater selection of items (especially meat/cheese-wise) so he mentioned that several new products would be coming out shortly. So, not to say that dudeson's review was inaccurate (given his description, it's an entirely fair assessment from his experience), but mostly just to report that there should be some things worth going back to try.
Police shutter black market Kunming noodle-maker
Posted byBut it's authentic (ergo delicious) because its noodles, right?
Burger King Kunming grand opening and giveaway
Posted byIt equally seems inappropriate that in a country where people struggle to get adequate nutrition that by you have people driving jaguars & BMWs and innumerable Gucci/Prada/Louis Vuitton boutiques...not to mention the obsessions with smartphones.... c'est la vie I suppose.
Welcome to the new GoKunming!
Posted bySo, after a few weeks of trying to get over the shock of the site looking so different, I have to say I still am loathe to come onto GoKunming with the new look. Don't get me wrong, there are great improvements and the site design has some pluses... however, it is not a site design that works with large multicolored advertisements running everywhere. The dark background of the older site made these seem less garish, but the new light color gradually just means that all I see is the ads.
As a second (related) note, this site does look nice on touch devices, but the lack of framing (like the old site had) can make going through the forums or classifieds an irritating experience.
best of luck in the growing pains.
Kunming observatory plays role in China moon shot
Posted byjojio,
yes, the observatory is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is open for educational visits to the public. They have a great observation tower with a sun telescope you can view (which is 7 flights of stairs up an old Maoist era tower—very cool), as well as an older but still cool IMAX dome-style theater where you watch some films about movement of the stars in Yunnan (all in Chinese). There aren't any foreign staff, so the tour would be entirely in thick Kungminghau. There is also a great hole in the wall museum with old astronomical instruments, some meteor fragments and a few exhibits on Chinese astronomy.
When I was there 2 months ago, the old road the connects the observatory to the city had been torn out and we had to drive on muddy clay. It's also pretty far out (near the airportish), and the facility is OLD. Most of the scientists/their families/support staff are really friendly, and most had never seen a foreign visitor before.
If you have enough people who are interested, we could get a minibus and arrange a tour via their sister Zoological institute on Jiaochang Donglu.
Kunming observatory plays role in China moon shot
Posted byI wouldnt exactly call all non-Euro/American principles of land ownership fair and equitable either. Many cultures have cut up the land they lived on and turned oases into deserts—definitely not a new "western" phenomenon. That said, in general the issue of the moon has been settled in principle by international conventions, but enforcement wasn't really included because no one has yet figured out how to extract resources from space and get them back to earth at a reasonable cost. Out of sheer curiosity though, what would be terrible about a country/company owning an asteroid and mining it? Don't get me wrong, seeing the coca-cola logo on the moon wouldn't be fun, but we are not nearly into that realm yet.