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Good topic. Here's my own 1st hand account:

* My wife, from a farmers-turned-blue-collars family:
  - She's very aware of the low social standards
  - Her awareness expanded further after traveling abroad with me and working with other foreigners here
  - She feels absolutely powerless about it, thinking that she would feel miserable and very very depressed...

To what do you refer?

Aside from the websites that are blocked in China, service providers have their own list of blocked sites (Unicom is particularly bad), and depending on the provider, various sites will get hijacked by advertising. All these problems can be overcome by a VPN.

Internet speeds in China are generally poor, and service providers will...

They don't provide napkins in any restaurants in Xinjiang.  They did in Qingdao, but they sure as hell don't out here.

This applies to the expensive restaurants and the el-cheapo's alike.

If you want to use something other than the back of your hand, or your shirt, you've gotta buy a great big packet of napkins.

The price of these napkins is bugger all so...again......

They usually do this to make you feel that you are being served properly. Sometimes they overdo it because they are afraid of losing their jobs. You'd probably don't understand this but each morning their supervisors will terrorize them about customer service. Next time just tell them to give you a few minutes and they will go away.

You will need an internationally recognized qualification as a start. Then you will have to run the gauntlet of interviews with the immigration departments of whichever country you want to go to, assuming you have all the documents necessary to arrive at the interviewers' desk. In western countries, being fluent in Chinese doesn't mean anything. They've already got thousands upon thousands...

travelling around Europe, i have seen parents chastise their child in public for littering - no physically, just telling the child to pick the discarded rubbish off the ground and put it in a bin.

Solvenia have made it fun for children to get into the habit by making public bins in the shape of animals with large open mouths. 

it's not rocket...

Here's what they need in order to open accounts in your name (IN THE UNITED STATES, OF ALL PLACES):

1) Passport (counts as 2 forms of ID)

2) Date of Birth

3) Name

With just those three tidbits, they can screw you royally. No need for your social security number. Why? They have access to the entire database of social security card...

History is also written from the POV of the victor. So I wonder who the victor will be. An the political/economic arm wrestle between the US and China, who will come out the other side as the winner and flex their international muscles. 

I think it'll also be known as the period when many foreigners came and then many left as well. Maybe the beginning of the mass...

Victoria, I've never commented on any of your posts before. You know, if you want to ask people on the forum about your personal life, then be prepared to get answers of all kinds, rude, caustic, downright disgusting, nice, supportive, etc. This is a forum and not your personal circle of friends. You may not like them and they may not like you, but you did open yourself to attack. I've read...