10-16-2012, 09:44 AM
No worries, Brad.
I visited Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing for business a few years back. HK was great. Everyone spoke English, they were polite, and I never felt unsafe. Shanghai was less-so, but my coworkers took care of me. Beijing was nuts. The guy who was showing me around the first day was a dyed-in-the-wool Mao-worshipper, who walked me around Tienanmen Square in 45* heat when I was wearing a three-season wool suit.
Then he takes me to a store to show me a packet of "dog" meat (could have been popcorn for all I knew), and then to lunch where we at pig's ear, catfish soup that was hotter than magma, and he regaled me with how "All Chinese" worship Mao as a god.
After a week of "Mess with the white guy games", I could not wait to finish my project and GTFO. I feel for you, man.
I visited Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing for business a few years back. HK was great. Everyone spoke English, they were polite, and I never felt unsafe. Shanghai was less-so, but my coworkers took care of me. Beijing was nuts. The guy who was showing me around the first day was a dyed-in-the-wool Mao-worshipper, who walked me around Tienanmen Square in 45* heat when I was wearing a three-season wool suit.
Then he takes me to a store to show me a packet of "dog" meat (could have been popcorn for all I knew), and then to lunch where we at pig's ear, catfish soup that was hotter than magma, and he regaled me with how "All Chinese" worship Mao as a god.
After a week of "Mess with the white guy games", I could not wait to finish my project and GTFO. I feel for you, man.
Fear is a liar.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -- Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -- Ernest Hemingway
