Replies: 35 - Last Post: 12-Nov-2007 21:25 Last Post By: Tokyo_girl
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fucking hell. uh, no, you're not crazy. crazy would be iraq or somalia. china has a well-established tourist trail if you like that sort of thing, and if you don't it's easy (if sometimes a pain in the arse) to get Off The Beaten Track. You'll be fine.
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China is a huge country -- and covers the whole spectrum from ultra clean and modern -- all the way to medieval backwardness. Depending on how and where you go -- you can have a totally "civilized" trip -- or totally "adventurous".
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Have your friends ever been out of their lil' ole town? If not, it's not use explaining things to them as it would go right over their lil' ole heads.
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Yeah so your non-travelling friends don't travel. So how on earth do they know what China is like since they've never been here? Tell them (nicely) to not talk nonsense about somewhere that they've never visited.
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If your friends are apallingly provincial, and they are, well you aren't exactly worldly either to even pose a question like this.
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BORING. Next!"Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable those Europeans to cut each other's throats with greater facility."
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Your friends voted for George Bush didn't they?
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If you starve its because you dont like the food, not because you cant get any food. China is not an unsafe place and even at the more remote places these days seems to have electricity and mobilphones. Places like Beijing and Shanghai is probably more modern than most western cities.
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I don't think going to China is crazy or especially adventurous. Now, French Polynesia and their atolls, that would be different.
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Besides. China is hardly a Third World country any longer.
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I went to China alone for my first backpacking trip.
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Hahaha, good thread! Funnily enough, it's always my Chinese friends that are the most sceptical when I say i'm going to China, they seem to think that it would be impossible for any westerner to get by without great harm coming their way. One of my friends was even telling me about a scam where they throw a dead body in front of your car, call the police and say that you ran the body over and have you locked up, she seemed to think that this was commonplace for westerners. :-)
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Yeah, China has changed fast and is now kind of tame. Parts of it are actually far cleaner, safer, and more sanitary than the USA. Don't worry at all, I spent two years wandering around China and I have never had any problems anywhere.
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