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Q: After being home a couple of years ask yourself ,So how is China looking Now?
WARNING the following rant was not Beer induced
Had a Bad Australia Day in fact a Bad Australia Month
Customer service is at a all time low .
proof in fact that Australians are the laziest Bastards on the planet
Even in China they fake some interest in dong their job.
because they know if you do not buy ,they will have no income.
then you have minorities dictating what you are aloud to do on holidays that are part of your own culture
and shop keepers that panda to them so as not to offend he poor little ass holes
at Least in China they are delt with if they make trouble for the majority.( now we are down the rabbit hole)
sign me up for the CCP and instead of the jacket I ordered on Echina 2 years ago send me a Blue Mao suit extra large.
Now where is that magic unicorn or those mushrooms for my coffee
END RANT
Now your turn to tell us the plusses of leaving your home country (yes we know she is wonderful so tell us something else)
I reckon the Chinese system of Government has many advantages over Western democracy.
But most Westerners are too brainwashed to see it. This thread could turn out to be a good debate....
DrMonkey:
So a few guys deciding all things for you with no feedback from the people (apart from rumors and cliff notes from your police services), no accountability, and with no problems to rewrite/mute history... It does not sound like it's going to be self-serving and fail at justice, equality, welfare ? You are completely happy with the levels of censorship here ?
If it was working so well, why censorship like that is needed ? And don't tell me that the level of censorship in China is equivalent to what you would see in the West. Great Fire Wall, a long list of taboo topics, journalists are overlooked by an administration. Why the idea of a bit of decentralized power creates so much hysteric reactions here ?
ScotsAlan:
Yeah, the censorship is bad. But I was really talking more about the democratic system versus the technocrat system.
Politically, I am left wing. But at the same time I also understand why the right think as they do.
Recently I found myself reading about Sarah Palin. And it struck me how true her reasons were for not running for Governor of Alaska were. She spent all her time dealing with people who were taking her to courts to stop her delivering on her manifesto.
Democracy goes round in circles and nothing really ever gets done.
Unpopular things that need to be done are impossible under a democracy. Nobody will vote for it. No politician will ever suggest it.
I am not saying China is perfect, far from it. But I reckon the Government system here should not be dismissed offhand.
ScotsAlan:
Put it another way. America has a president with no power. All he can do is an executive veto.
People voted for him. He won the election. He promised health care. People want healthcare so they voted for him.
Can he deliver? No. Because the opposition say no. They don't want it, and Fox news says Obama is a twit. hey ho. What's the point?
Democracy is good. It works. But only if the losers accept the election result.
That's the problem. Left and right....never the Twain shall meet.
rasklnik:
According to Jacques Barzun the failure of modern democratic governance is the fault of modern day post-great war decadence, that is "the desire for change with the failure to act." The fault does not lie with one-man, one-vote but rather the failure of the electorate to think
-If only 1/3 third of people show up to vote, than 2/3 say they " have no power" you have to wonder what is going on in their mind.
I've just returned from my second trip to Australia in a couple of months and both times was struck by how friendly and helpful all the service people were....shops, restaurants, public transport. Even random people walking along the street were quick to say g'day. But don't just take my word for it...my wife and daughter, both Chinese, were almost overwhelmed by the friendly and welcoming people we encountered in everyday situations.
True story.
philbravery:
Wish I cold say the same thing
Brisbane must not be copeing with the hot weather
maybe if they were on commission they would be more helpful
Bye the way Brisbane is a ghost town due to G20 this week end
Too hot for protests 40 plus deg lol
Love my AC 
Yeah, right. Spend 2 months in Harbin now teaching to tuhao kids. Then move to a large industrial Hunan town, and be stuck there. Brisbane will totally suck in comparison, you never wanna come back.
philbravery:
We stay in Mudanjaing when in China and I would not want to have a -47c winter in Harbin but -6 s ok ....lol
Hmmmm, I woke up this morning mildly hung over after a night out last night at a pub that does brilliant beer, then strolled around the harbour to a cafe that serves high quality coffee. After a visit to a bookshop I did my grocery shopping for clean, safe food and walked through my local park, where the sky is blue every day. I'm in for a quiet night, but I'll go
to the beach tomorrow.
Nobody was rude, although it does happen.
Brissy must really suck right now. No way I'd go back to China, although Bangkok would definitely tempt me, and I'd jump on a plane to Europe with pleasure any day.
Englteachted:
Yesterday, I saw a worker on campus (national level university) take a crap on the grass (not in the bushes, in clear view) during the middle of the lunch rush. I was the only person to react to it. and people looked at me as if I was nuts. As the worker got up from her squat (a few feet from the library and classroom building that both have bathrooms) I could clearly see that see should wipe her damn ass. But she didn't.
If the OP would like to trade his place for a place in China he'd have 1.3 billion people offering everything they owned (including daughters) to take his place and for good reason.
philbravery:
AHHHHH
Thanks for reminding me about what I was missing
OK instead I will just tell the lazy barstards to their face how useless they are
Hope the magistrate is in a good mood.
