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Q: anyone else been 'changed' by China?
without wanting to play the numbers game are there any people out there that have had there intentions - good or bad - changed after a duration of time spent living in China? In other words, the BS got to you and changed you irreversiably or altered the way you think about stuff? lets have a debate on this:
Yeah, I have. Sometimes I make myself sick the way I can't stop pointing out all the ridiculousness around me. I go on a rant about the complete idiocy and bastardry of the drivers, the disgustingness of the spitters and the shitters (only saw one today, right outside a building on a busy street he was. Cunt!), and so on.... Only for the person I'm ranting to to reply "but THIS IS CHINA!"
It does my head in sometimes. I mean, what is wrong with these people!!!
I have become a cynical and much less trusting person. I can no longer take people merely on face value. Even when I'm not in China, I now look for ulterior motives in everyone's actions and always on the look out for dishonest behaviour.
In some ways i have become more patient - knowing that the simplest thing might take hours, not minutes.
BUT
I am less tolerant of obvious BS, and i look more closely for hidden agendas.
I've become more political...there is a joke around this forum that China turned me into a Fox news watching Republican.
Hopelessly cynical....I've lost all hope in humanity and governments in general.
I see the local drunk back home in Vancouver begging for change...and I get pissed off by the audacity of a man living on welfare begging for beer money after the shit I see everyday in China.
I trust no one now except close family and friends...I have no hope in China anymore after watching dada Xi bring china back to the cold war propaganda quagmire that sank the Soviet Union back in 89.
Yes China has made me a cold, pessimistic dark man.
Yes, I've changed but mostly for the better I think. I have learned a lot here and feel I'm more mature and open minded than I was before I came.
I definitely appreciate what I have at home more now, I took a lot for granted before.
I am a lot more cynical, I lost the new guy naivety pretty quickly after I arrived. I don't think that's necessarily all bad though.
Yeah, I have. Sometimes I make myself sick the way I can't stop pointing out all the ridiculousness around me. I go on a rant about the complete idiocy and bastardry of the drivers, the disgustingness of the spitters and the shitters (only saw one today, right outside a building on a busy street he was. Cunt!), and so on.... Only for the person I'm ranting to to reply "but THIS IS CHINA!"
It does my head in sometimes. I mean, what is wrong with these people!!!
If somebody is smiling and walking towards to me, i know that they will ask for something for sure in China.
I have changed China. A small cog in a big machine. My technical knowledge has been passed on. My passion for learning has been passed on. China is now innovating thanks to my time here. My daughter, with her Chinese passport,Is part of the future of China. I will work for her future. Has China changed me? Of course. For the better, not the worse.
Noel05:
Whatever you do may be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.
I've been forced out of my comfort zone, so I've grown a lot.
I've met people with different lifestyles, so I'm more open.
I've used the squat toilet, so I ALWAYS have TP. ALWAYS.
