Comments on: Poll: What’s Holding You Back from Traveling to China? http://chinablog.cc/2010/01/poll-whats-holding-you-back-from-traveling-to-china/ The Timeless China Blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:59:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jensen Liu http://chinablog.cc/2010/01/poll-whats-holding-you-back-from-traveling-to-china/comment-page-1/#comment-1564 Jensen Liu Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:44:35 +0000 http://chinablog.cc/?p=1399#comment-1564 <a href="#comment-1563" rel="nofollow">@Zhu </a> lol, Zhu, thank you for your comments. It's really helpful here to have a French Canadian's personal experience. You know quite a lot about China, and I love your humorous "excepts". Chinese are somewhat like Italian as compared in this funny video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SDggGCciDg @Zhu
lol, Zhu, thank you for your comments. It’s really helpful here to have a French Canadian’s personal experience.

You know quite a lot about China, and I love your humorous “excepts”. Chinese are somewhat like Italian as compared in this funny video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SDggGCciDg

]]> By: Zhu http://chinablog.cc/2010/01/poll-whats-holding-you-back-from-traveling-to-china/comment-page-1/#comment-1563 Zhu Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:30:15 +0000 http://chinablog.cc/?p=1399#comment-1563 I went to China quite a few times actually so I'm just waiting for another chance to go! When it comes to the money factor, people have to remember that even though the flight may be expensive (depends where you are from), life in China is still quite cheap. These days, it's even easier with new hostels opening all the time. When I first went to China in the 90s, there was no hostel and no "backpacker" place. We used to rent rooms at local universities during the summer. Other than that, it was business hotels Western style (much more expensive). People have these crazy stereotypes about China. What I can say as a Westerner is, go with an open mind. Most Chinese are very friendly (expect when queuing :lol:) and are not exactly "brainwashed" by the government. Politics is not a taboo and people are usually open-minded. Keep in mind that China is super safe (except when crossing the streets!!!), that pollution won't kill you (I mean, come on, there are some long terms issues but most countries are quite polluted). As for human rights... yes, the government should improve. That said, the USA still has death penatly, Saudi Arabia treats women like cattle, France doesn't have a great record of treating foreigners right, quite a few countries around the world are guilty of imperialism... so sure, China is not perfect but don't believe everything you see on TV. I went to China quite a few times actually so I’m just waiting for another chance to go!

When it comes to the money factor, people have to remember that even though the flight may be expensive (depends where you are from), life in China is still quite cheap. These days, it’s even easier with new hostels opening all the time. When I first went to China in the 90s, there was no hostel and no “backpacker” place. We used to rent rooms at local universities during the summer. Other than that, it was business hotels Western style (much more expensive).

People have these crazy stereotypes about China. What I can say as a Westerner is, go with an open mind. Most Chinese are very friendly (expect when queuing :lol: ) and are not exactly “brainwashed” by the government. Politics is not a taboo and people are usually open-minded.

Keep in mind that China is super safe (except when crossing the streets!!!), that pollution won’t kill you (I mean, come on, there are some long terms issues but most countries are quite polluted). As for human rights… yes, the government should improve. That said, the USA still has death penatly, Saudi Arabia treats women like cattle, France doesn’t have a great record of treating foreigners right, quite a few countries around the world are guilty of imperialism… so sure, China is not perfect but don’t believe everything you see on TV.

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