Just a few China myths for you, courtesy of the New Yorker…
My favorite?
“The Internet might be censored but it can never be rolled back in China”
and
“China is a land of no siblings.” (People always ask about that one).
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2009/12/top-ten-china-myths-of-2009.html#ixzz0ZrkhjSiB
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As I hopped on my bike yesterday to head towards home, I couldn’t understand why everyone was riding in such an insane fashion.
Now, riding a bike here in the beginning was a harrowing, white knuckle experience. I’m trying to come up with an analogy, so let’s say, picture the entire city of Montreal on a [...]
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As much as I enjoy the food here there are things I miss.
Cheese.
Oh cheeeeese. I love you so. My cheese experience in Uganda was rather lacking. My cheese experience in China has been slightly better. There is a large selection here of cheese if you go to the fancy import stores, but you have to [...]
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Every day when I come home, there is a small group of elderly women and men waiting for me outside perched on a strange assortment of chairs that have been rescued from the trash bin. In actuality, they’re not waiting for me, per se, but they are hanging out, drinking tea and occasionally playing checkers [...]
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I’m finally at this brilliant point where I’m starting to understand what people say to me. It’s a fabulous feeling, even if I can’t say much back at the moment besides a whole host of random words and phrases (such as “sir, can I have 10 dumplings?” which is very useful I’ll have you [...]
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This photo makes me want to cry.
One of the things I most looked forward to, when coming here, was the food. HOT DAMN there is some amazing food here. Honestly, I would say my failure rate of food (which, I think in North America is at least 50 per cent) is about 10 per cent [...]
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A “level 3″ stare…
Fine, fine, it’s not a game. I couldn’t come up with a title. I’m lame.
At any rate, I do want to talk about staring. Now, I am stared at here. Is this a surprise? Not really, considering my height and the way I look. I’m stared at here on a level that [...]
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The dollar bill game lives on!!! (and yes I have bed head. stuff it)
A reporter friend and I used to play this game called the “dollar bill game.” Really ingenious name, I know. Basically the gist of the game was that for every new country we traveled to, we stuck a $1 US bill in [...]
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I went for a walk near my apartment the other day and found these sweet little birds.
They’re everywhere in Beijing – usually in tandem with a group of older retired men. Sometimes they play cards (the men not the birds).
I don’t know very much about birds, but I think the ones I normally see are [...]
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