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Forums > Living in Kunming > How does one meet nice Chinese women?

Some Chinese girls are impossible to approach. But going by majorities and as a Westerner in China, they are a lot easier to approach in general than most Western girls back home. I aren't sure why this is, it feels like here most Chinese girls will just treat you like another person if you start chatting to them. In the west they seem to believe that you want to jump in their pants or that you are some sort of sexual miscreant or just a "creep" simply by the mere act of talking. I am the sort of person who will have a chat to anyone if they are around me and I find a topic of mutual interest, in the West that goes down as some sort of attack or that I have cynical motivations (even with guys), here it seems to be no problem and people chat back.

Maybe its a conformity thing? Often people in public situations in the West are almost always alone with a smartphone/MP3 player taking their attention and the West has a strong "don't talk to us if we are a couple, respect our privacy" mantra. This seems to extend from our sense of ownership and ideas of freedom of thought which have been taken to the extreme and corrupted. Combined with the overt feminism that a lot of Western women exhibit, it makes a casual approach difficult, nearly impossible unless you are a male adonis acting in exactly the right manner.

There is always a wall in the West too, people aren't honest or open, they seem to often have a "public face" which they display, devoid of emotion, highly critical and very defensive. In order to see the true person underneath it takes a long time to break this down.

In China it seems people accept you as a normal person first, then see what you are like by chatting then express interest on a base level with honesty and openness. As such making friends is easier as is finding a girlfriend. Just my experience.

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Well that degenerated quickly. The "loser laowais" that I have seen probably only make up about 5-20% of the foreigners I have met, the higher % if you include the short time tourists who come here to chase tail. A small, but noticeable portion. Not sure about the ones yankee sees, the vast majority? Don't know about that... Well, as the girls I have been in relationships with before marrying a Chinese gal looks like a UN conference, I must not be one. Or maybe that makes me one? Damn, I think I might be in that group? So hard to define I guess.

I guess we are all losers in our own special way??

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Who said science can't be wrong? The entire point of the scientific method is to be wrong at least half the time! Testing hypothesis and finding it to be right in one instance, then later finding it to be wrong in another instance is the whole point. Even when science is wrong, it's right! This is why people still test concrete theories like general relativity, they think it might not be right given x, y, z, so find new and innovative ways to test it. And usually they end up supporting the lore, sometimes they find something new, or very rarely cause a paradigm shift of knowledge - a watershed moment that fundamentally changes our understanding of the universe.

How media interprets science and it's relationship with scientists is what most people don't understand. If you read anything about a new scientific advancement in the media, don't trust it. This is because MSM is only interested in controversial stories that will sell more papers or get more clicks. Go to the source and learn the truth, don't take some idiot reporters word for it as they have selectively chosen facts for their own purposes. Posting articles like you did Magnifico in claims that scientists have a screw loose or that science is plain silly.

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So I was just driving East a few months ago from Colorado into Kansas, with my 3 buddies who were all smoking their perfectly legal joints. Police stopped me just before I crossed the border on a minor traffic infringement and saw my friends smoking their joints. He asked if I was smoking, as the driver, and tested me with a breathalyser which showed I was well under the limit. So he didn't care, gave me a ticket for my broken tail light, which I told him I would fix when I got to the next town. Coming up to the border my friends all chucked their joints out the window because we knew it was illegal in the Kansas. Little did we know though that Lisa had spilled some leaf when she was rolling her joint!

Crossed over the border into Kansas, drove around the next town looking for a auto shop. But a cop pulled me over AGAIN for my broken tail light. I got out of the car to try and explain I just got a ticket and he smells pot, pulls out his gun, slams me to the ground, arrests me and my friends, searches my car and finds a tiny piece of leaf on the floor.

Anyway, I am writing this after my last meal while the priest delivers my last rights, just before I am led off to be strapped down for my lethal injection. My friends have all been executed already which makes me pretty upset when I think about it. They killed Billy, Lisa and Ken for something that is legal only 300m away! I wonder why the line between state sponsored killing and simple drug control has become so indiscriminate? I keep telling them that I wasn't under the influence and wasn't even smoking anything, but the THC drug test showed trace amounts in my system because my friends were in the same car and I guess I inhaled when I shouldn't have. Oh well, I guess I deserve this, I have to accept that I am a hardened criminal that has to be got rid of. I am the same level as serial killers, murderers, war criminals and child rapist/killers.

I heard this idea came from China! I hope whoever suggested it is happy.

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We went on Saturday. It was totally packed out! The new subway stop helped a lot with this I am sure, it seemed like most attendees were using it.

The sellers love to see a foreigner because heaps of them speak English, especially those from Pakistan/Sri Lanka/India. If you are from a cricket playing nation, you get bombarded with players names etc when talking to them!

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Clearly a lack of training. Armed police all over the world are taught to only fire in situations where the public is not in danger from stray bullets.

It looks like my comment above is coming to pass...

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But you feel safer right yuantongsi?

Having an armed gang of untrained idiots running around the streets vs the occasional threat of terrorist activity (which incidentally is likely to still happen, it might just not involve as many civilian deaths... or may involve more as a result).

One thing I do know - if you are around any criminal activity (i.e. you see someone doing something illegal, a car chase or the police trying to catch a pick pocket etc) don't hang around. Run like hell the other way or lay flat, I can just imagine some young police try-hard yanking out his pistol and spraying the suspect and anyone else around them with as many bullets as he can. Then boasting to his mates later in the station about the great work he is doing and not receiving any sort of punishment for killing/maiming civilians. The civilian deaths will be written off as "accidental discharge" no doubt.

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The more damns they have on a river, the more potential for catastrophic failure. You can imagine what would happen if a dam in the upper reaches of a river experiences catastrophic failure, the resulting surge of water to the next dam will likely cause that one to collapse creating a massive domino effect with an unparalleled level of cascading destruction. And the Jinsha river is set to have 11 damns on it, with another 11 on an upper reach of the river, the TongTian, extending into Tibet.

To hear they are building dams that cannot even handle the amount of water that occurs in the first year causing a potential collapse is mind boggling. What happens when they get a particularly bad rainfall year and/or and earthquake? Utter devastation awaits...

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Wow, just wow. Possibly the best Chinese food I have had in Kunming. And in one of the nicest, traditional courtyard style restaurant I have been in. A woman dressed in traditional qi pao playing a gu zheng just adds to it.

We had okra, mushroom soup, dried beef and chou dofu. All top notch with the bill coming in at just over 250 kuai. But we could have fed 3 people for that so not too bad at about 80-90 kuai each. Not the cheapest but for the quality, it's damn good.

If you have people visiting and want to take them to a traditional Chinese style restaurant with Yunnan style food, or want a romantic night out with a gal, you can't go wrong here. Close to Green Lake (down a little alley) for a romantic walk... Just perfect.

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Pretty good place for getting all your documents translated and/or notarised. Note that there are a number of notaries in the building which you can find by going up the stairs (the elevators are impossible). But you have to find the stairs to do so... go in the door, head over to the right, go up the big wide stairs which head up a floor, turn right then right again into the elevator area and right again into the stairwells. Whew!

One point off for the elevators never being available and having to hike 7-9 flights of stairs (not good if you have to go 3-4 times a day like I often did!)

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This does not stop at the Jinanya hotel at Da Shang Hui as the flyers state (and is on the images tab here). They need to have another stop in the same area or else they are missing out on covering a big chunk of the city.

You can take another bus, the 919C, I believe, if you are nearby Da Shang Hui, which leaves from the bus station on HeHong Lu, nearby the Qianxing road intersection. This bus goes every hour and is white, found at the western end of the station. It is operated by a different company and takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to get to the airport due to a large number of stops especially near the airport.

Great bus though if you can catch it!

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Friendly people, even got to the talk to the vice consulate, who told me she had done a stint in Malaysia's Siberian Consulate!

English is spoken by some of the Chinese girls working at the desk who are pleasant to deal with. I assume they do Visa's as well but I wasn't here for a visa, this time!