TIC (This is China)

**Lao Jia Hou** · 09-21-2011, 01:58 PM

TIC (This is Canada) - with a Chinese twist

http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/stori...s-jealous.html

It seems that Chinese "culture" is being exported to my home town. I wonder if those boys would like to play a "friendly" game of ice hockey? We could let them experience some Canadian "culture."

**td_ref** · 09-21-2011, 02:29 PM

Ricers from Hong Kong have been racing the streets from Richmond to the airport in their souped up cars since the 90s. Occasionally they’re caught or somebody dies, and the local news has a field day. Mainlanders are 20 years late and still think they’re hot shit. Truth is, most of the rich immigrant kids have grown up and gotten jobs.

I believe every human races would be like these kids if they grew up in mainland China. Again, Canadian people had experienced Hong Kong rich kids before Mainlanders in.

**Lao Jia Hou** · 09-22-2011, 01:45 AM

Originally Posted by td_ref

I believe every human races would be like these kids if they grew up in mainland China. Again, Canadian people had experienced Hong Kong rich kids before Mainlanders in.

Yes, you are absolutely correct. Canadians, generally, like to keep their wealth hidden, and find the flash & bling distasteful. But perhaps the largest difference in culture is found in the universities. In Canadian culture, being a student means being poor ... and paying your own way via various menial jobs, regardless of the wealth of one's parents. Most Canadian parents (and institutions) believe that the demands of working & studying, and learning how to support oneself, is a crucial component of education. Any student showing off one's wealth would be regarded very poorly.

When I first came to China to set up a joint university program, I was absolutely shocked to discover virtually no student had a part-time job and was being entirely supported by the family. A huge difference in culture. However, I was also shocked to discover that most 1st year Chinese students had better math skills than me! Different culture.

**Lao Jia Hou** · 09-22-2011, 09:04 PM

China's 10 strangest rules & laws.

**MotoKai** · 09-27-2011, 08:38 AM

Photographer:Alaine Delorme

From Shanghaiist (Full Gallery Here):
<<Even the most jaded old China hand can still marvel and appreciate the perfect alignment of tenacity and physics that makes up China's incredible, mobile towers of junk. Photographer Alaine Delorme has produced an excellent gallery devoted to these cyclists, calling them "new totems of a society in complete transformation, both a factory for the world and a new El Dorado of the market economy." He has clearly edited the colors in the photos, something done to create what he calls "augmented reality.>>

Delorme's website has this to say regarding the role of these totems as they relate to the cyclist and society as a whole:
Their role is ambiguous, as they smother as much as they make visible the workers of the big city. On one hand the man is almost swallowed by the objects, he is their fervent servant; he’s submerged by this multiplication of the same object. The manufactured objects become the pagan idols of consumer society. On the other hand, these temporary sculptures seem to turn upside down the established order, the individual differentiating this way in the gigantism of the urban world. Identifying himself with this elevation, man isn’t himself interchangeable anymore and becomes singular in this multitude.

Read more about Delorme's work here.

**Fred** · 10-18-2011, 03:20 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/ch...192407296.html

**ChinaV** · 11-15-2011, 06:13 AM

I've been in China for many years, a large majority of that time has been spent sitting on this highway (the GuanShen Gao Su). Year after year, accident after accident, my life passes by as a piece of cattle stuck on a Chinese expressway.

At least I got to watch something interesting this time. I don't think anyone was in the bus, as it was parked in the breakdown lane with a huge crowd of mouth breathers staring at it.

Cheers!
ChinaV

**euphonius** · 11-15-2011, 07:06 AM

Sure hope there was no one aboard, and hope the happy couple in the wedding party didn't miss their nuptials. What, if not an accelerant and someone to spark it, would cause a bus to burn to a crisp like that?

Then again, just last month I came across this:

Driver said he had little time to react, and he suspected that a diesel leak dripped on something hot. This thing burned very fast.

And, yes, referencing another thread, I did stop to make sure everyone was safe. Here's the fire brigade almost being hindered by my KLR.

Sorry if a bit off topic, but dig that California blue sky!