I’ve seen a postcard in a shop today, it was written there “The famous Balinese rice fields”. Have you ever seen rice fields? I have. In Nepal, Thailand, on other islands of Indonesia. There are also rice fields in China – huge in territory. What is it so special about rice fields of Bali that makes them famous? I’ll tell you. Just these writings on postcards and tourist brochures. The Balinese rice fields are beautiful – but you must understand that they are really same as anywhere in Asia. You may not believe it but such words as “famous, world-known, etc” have a great hypnotic influence on our mind. In fact you can take anything, say that it is world-famous, print booklets about it – and you’ll have a tourist site out of nothing. One of
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