China: Guangdong to Beijing

re: the wrong impression
Hi NYCKid. Thank you for leaving a comment. I have no doubt that a sizable section of Chinese students study abroad and that a respectable number of those who do excel in the institutions they attend. Moreover, having been travelling for 9 months, I have had the pleasure of engaging with many wayfaring folks, many of whom have been Chinese and indeed of those, many I now call friends. So I can personally vouch for the Yuan's mark on global tourism. If my entry has been taken to suggest gross indifference or insularity on the part of the Chinese, this was not my intent. My entry is an account of what I faced in China. Sadly, as it so happened and without any real exception, those I met while in China expressed no interest to travel beyond home frontiers. In fact, on more than one occasion, the suggestion of foreign travel was met with real disdain. Not once, not anywhere, have I ever encountered such an attitude. In my experience, the prospect of travel invariably excites. For the first time, I was actually pitied: that I didn't have a magnificent homeland like China, indeed so marvellous, that I wouldn't wish ever to leave! Such exposure, so out of the ordinary, had to make me wonder just how prevalent an opinion this was.