No one ever wants to go to china. But sometimes they have to for business or whatever. I just want to warn all frens not to go or you could wake up in a pit next to winning the pooh
Honestly I've always wanted to go just to china and parts of Europe just to see the countries, experience different cultures of the world. Over the past 5 years I no longer want to visit those countries. Thanks for the warnings.
Visiting China and Europe taught me so much about how good America is.
I expected to be overwhelmed by China and realize they were going to overtake the US. I visited Shanghai and in their largest mall their escalator banks were all screwed up meaning the people going up/down had to shift from the right side to the left before getting on the next bank of escalators. Just now a real deep understanding of fire to do things right. This was omnipresent.
In Europe we spent all day on trains to get to some church that my European family wanted to see. After hours and hours of travel we were on a bus that broke down probably 2 miles from the church. We could see it. The bus just offloaded us and left everyone to fend for themselves. They decided just to go back home. I couldn't understand accepting failure like that. Get an Uber. Finish the job. I didn't even care about the church but let's do this. Then go home. But instead they just sit at train stations smoking, waiting for the late mass transit.
Haha sounds like a crappy Church outing. Go back to Europe, especially Italy. Just do random stuff, eat and enjoy cool history & hang out. Helps if you can afford more that $1/day tho.
I went to Munich on business a couple of months before the world ended, and rented a car to get to some of the more out there places. It went very well - I went to Neuschwanstein Castle. Didn't get to go inside because Chinese tourists bought up all the tickets, but I got to take the classic picture from the bridge.
Many people there were complaining that they had to leave soon because it took 3 hours to get there by train (It's an 80 mile drive). Remember, this is in Germany, which generally has good trains, but not to out of the way places. It took only about an hour to drive there...
Ironically, most of the people who were complaining about this were American liberal exchange students...
I was choosing between Shenzhen and eastern Europe for school abroad. (Cheaper to go). I chose Eastern Europe. I shudder to think of the other timeline I went to school in China
Best advice on this is if you want to experience traditional Chinese culture (Confucianism, Taoism) go to Taiwan. The people are way friendlier and you don't have to worry about the CCP.
It's a very neat place, I'd love to be able to visit again some day, but even a decade ago it was extremely dangerous. I'm hoping the younger generations will turn things around over there- there's a lot of discontent with the Party over censorship, harsh punishments, and the little problem of 30 million more men than women in the millenial generation.
If you’re white the danger is less as China likes to focus on arresting Asian Americans, especially Chinese Americans when they return to China. Went with a dude that said he looks like he’s from HK and he was strongly considering cancelling his trip just because of the danger of looking like a HK native.
At least at the moment China knows they need to rely on America to keep getting manufacturing, so they tread carefully but it may not always be the case.
No one ever wants to go to china. But sometimes they have to for business or whatever. I just want to warn all frens not to go or you could wake up in a pit next to winning the pooh
Honestly I've always wanted to go just to china and parts of Europe just to see the countries, experience different cultures of the world. Over the past 5 years I no longer want to visit those countries. Thanks for the warnings.
Go to Europe. It's supposedly as good as the US. You'll see it isn't. And then you can skip the chances of dying in a country with no law
Visiting China and Europe taught me so much about how good America is.
I expected to be overwhelmed by China and realize they were going to overtake the US. I visited Shanghai and in their largest mall their escalator banks were all screwed up meaning the people going up/down had to shift from the right side to the left before getting on the next bank of escalators. Just now a real deep understanding of fire to do things right. This was omnipresent.
In Europe we spent all day on trains to get to some church that my European family wanted to see. After hours and hours of travel we were on a bus that broke down probably 2 miles from the church. We could see it. The bus just offloaded us and left everyone to fend for themselves. They decided just to go back home. I couldn't understand accepting failure like that. Get an Uber. Finish the job. I didn't even care about the church but let's do this. Then go home. But instead they just sit at train stations smoking, waiting for the late mass transit.
Americans would never tolerate that.
The last time I was in Europe, I was thinking, "Shit, my bathroom is bigger than your kitchen, or any of your bedrooms."
Haha sounds like a crappy Church outing. Go back to Europe, especially Italy. Just do random stuff, eat and enjoy cool history & hang out. Helps if you can afford more that $1/day tho.
I went to Munich on business a couple of months before the world ended, and rented a car to get to some of the more out there places. It went very well - I went to Neuschwanstein Castle. Didn't get to go inside because Chinese tourists bought up all the tickets, but I got to take the classic picture from the bridge.
Many people there were complaining that they had to leave soon because it took 3 hours to get there by train (It's an 80 mile drive). Remember, this is in Germany, which generally has good trains, but not to out of the way places. It took only about an hour to drive there...
Ironically, most of the people who were complaining about this were American liberal exchange students...
Hell, 2 miles? Just walk lol.
I was choosing between Shenzhen and eastern Europe for school abroad. (Cheaper to go). I chose Eastern Europe. I shudder to think of the other timeline I went to school in China
Best advice on this is if you want to experience traditional Chinese culture (Confucianism, Taoism) go to Taiwan. The people are way friendlier and you don't have to worry about the CCP.
For now
This is actually true
The ROC did a Underground Railroad type deal and got a lot of the artifacts out of China and in to Taiwan. The National Museum in Taipei has so much stuff they can only display 3% at a time. I spent 3 days there and only saw like half of the 3% they had out. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_retreat_to_Taiwan#Smuggling_of_treasures_from_the_mainland
In general communists erase culture until they realize they can sell pieces of it for their treasury or use it as a tourist trap for revenue.
I share your vision of a world in which visiting China is cool.
It's a very neat place, I'd love to be able to visit again some day, but even a decade ago it was extremely dangerous. I'm hoping the younger generations will turn things around over there- there's a lot of discontent with the Party over censorship, harsh punishments, and the little problem of 30 million more men than women in the millenial generation.
I loved going to China back in the 90's. I did many trips to Guangzhou and also Hong Kong. Today? Not so much.
The CCP is the same type of criminals as the Nazis. That’s it. That’s the comment.
The Nazis glorified German culture.
China has no culture in 2020.
The "Great Leap Forward" destroyed Chinese culture in China.
Artwork, statues, temples, religion, history, all destroyed. What still exists is a pathetic tiny fraction of what was there.
If you want to see China go to Taiwan while you can. Taiwan is China without the CCP.
Chinese history is fucking sad and depressing. They have no culture. They destroyed it. Multiple times.
China is not one of the most ancient cultures in the world. Don't buy into Chinese propaganda.
One China for 5,000 years has always been a lie. And even if you took that at face value, they destroyed it in the last 60-70 years.
edit
Chinese history may or may not interest you, that's fine. But China erased its own culture
If you’re white the danger is less as China likes to focus on arresting Asian Americans, especially Chinese Americans when they return to China. Went with a dude that said he looks like he’s from HK and he was strongly considering cancelling his trip just because of the danger of looking like a HK native.
At least at the moment China knows they need to rely on America to keep getting manufacturing, so they tread carefully but it may not always be the case.