meaty meats Hi, Lis -
Speaking of meat, how much of it do they consume over there? You mentioned that food prices are comparatively higher. What are their diets and eating habits like? Just curious.
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//L
NZ great place to live Glad your finding NZ to your taste's it is a fantastic place to live and overall pretty safe but do be careful hitching even here can be a bit dodgy. If your looking for great places to visit and things to do while your here try http://www.dosomething.co.nz its full of what we as locals like about our country. Have fun and be safe.
Foreign Interest God, Lisa. I love your blog. That closing paragraph's a killer, and I agree with that last line completely. The more I look into the efforts to preserve indigenous cultures (including my own), the more I'm realizing that those interested in preservation have to give the people of that culture the right to choose what they think is best whether it means maintaining the natural beauty of a place or leveling it for commerce and industry.
The right to choose becomes a touchy issue, however, when that industry affects global health as it does here in the US and, increasingly, in China and India. "Unemployment is a greater risk than pollution right now" captures that mentality perfectly because it literally becomes a decision about who lives and dies. It's easy to see the effects of unemployment. It's a lot more difficult to gauge the long-term repercussions of environmental damage. As a bonus, quick fixes and gratifications tend to cast better light on politicians.
Sigh.
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thank you for your comment! Hi, this is lisa from Yangshuo. thank you for sharing your opinion of my writing. part of the reason i am in china is to understand and decide for myself about China. As you say, western media is distorted. I agree, but don't you think Chinese media is also distorted? That is why I want to learn for myself so I can make my own judgements. And I agree that my opinion that taiwan and tibet want to be independant come from western media sources. But I think the only way to know the truth is to travel to tibet and taiwan and ask those people for themselves.
I was also wondering, you mentioned the internet as a source for Chinese to know about the world, but what do you think about Chinese government's censorship of over 10% of all web content? Don't you think that this firewall is to keep the Chinese people ignorant about anything that might contradict or weaken the communist party?
Thank you again and I hope to hear your response to this!
kind regards,
lisa
I love you blog.
I am sorry about the story of bike(The school also organizes a trip to one of the tourist attractions every weekend, at a fraction of the price that the tourists pay.). In fact i do not think this is common now in China. You visited Shanghai, Beijing and Xi'an, the prices of sights are the same with Chinese, right? So, do not use one place to cover all China. The regulations in China are not perfect, so they change from provinces to provinces, from cities to cities, even from street to street.
I do agree with your students that China must be united. I do not agree that Tibet and Taiwan want to be independent. Actually some want to be independent, Not all.
I do not agree "This is also what keeps the Chinese public ignorant to what goes on in the rest of the world." What I want to say is Chinese know more about US than American know about China. Every yeas tens thousand Chinese students go abroad to study, about 30 millions Chinese travel abroad. Today internet is also very convenient to know the rest of the world.
As you say, actually westerns pay more attentions to politics.
In fact, I am in USA now. I am angry to western medias that distort the news about China. But i can do nothing. You are a very kind person, I suggest you to learn more about Chinese history(very complicated) if you want. But do not fully based on the western medias.
I am very sad that American are very sad to the death of 4000 US soldiers rather than 500000 Iraq people.
So I do not accept western values( This does not mean i do not trust western people! In fact most of them are very friendly.).
Thank you. Have a nice trip.
Words out of my mouth. Hey Lisa we met onboard the ship from Osaka. Just wanted to say I totally agree with your observation of Shanghai, especially in light of time spent in Japan. Great article.
Tom
*sniff* I feel like I'm going to miss Japan now too. No more Lisa in Japan adventures surprising me in my inbox. No more amusing stories about Japanese traditions that are strange to us. No more pictures of gorgeous landscapes. Well, for now anyway. Safe travels, Lisa. Miss you + can't wait to see you!! x//L
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great post mate. A true traveller's tale! Not sure if you planned it, but funny how it all worked out