Try Salvador's Coffeeshop, on Wenhuaxiang just off Wenlin jie (street) in the old (original) university district, and/or several other cafes, restaurants and bars in that area, and keep up with the learning of Chinese, you'll be happier and a lot more connected and less confused by ordinary life here.

I'm sure there are blatantly faked accidents somewhere, sometime, but has anybody here ever had one? I don't think it's worth worrying about. As far as 'never happens to Chinese', I've heard of such, from the same sources I've heard of concerning foreigners - rumor, chatlines, etc. I don't get overcharged in my local market, but it does help to develop a sense of what things should cost (vegetables, meat, etc.) - yeah, it could happen, but I think people should be quite sure of themselves before they start self-righteously raising hell in public - a better reaction is usually just to suggest the price you want politely and then walk away if you don't get it - you'll get nowhere trying to make people lose face in public. I suppose I've been slicked once or twice, but I'm 'of European descent' and I don't feel persecuted here.

I assume that, in general, vaccination is safer for kids than not having them vaccinated. That's a pretty gross statement and I can't prove it, but I don't have to deal with it as I don't have kids to vaccinate or not. If you do, I think you'd better look at the issue very carefully and from different scientific authorities and not just accept whatever opinions happen to be lying around in your social circle - you don't want to be killing your kids by not vaccinating them, etc.
Despite the fears of some, I don't think eugenics has anything to do with the issue. As for the ongoing population problem, note that it is the children of the more wealthy, not those of the less wealthy, who use up much higher percentages of the world natural resources, produce more pollution etc., and that 'modernization, which the relatively wealthy globally restrict access to globally, that everywhere reduces the birth rates. In other words, the rising global income gap is the major population threat and the class and national divisions of the planet threaten the future of the species.

@lawlzomg: I don't think foreigners are targets for intentional accidents.

@HF Campo: thanks for the info, but it tells me that, as I wrote, nothing is 100% safe. The real question is, how often/how widespread and in which vaccinations do serious dangers pop up? And all this in relation to the dangers of not being vaccinated, and not being vaccinated against what, specifically.

I hold no brief for that %#@*& Kissinger, but the statement above concerning 'depopulation' is not clearly about killing people off with vaccinations - it could be about birth control, and doesn't necessarily imply the use of force - anyway, screw his advice.