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Shanghai is Still Highly Polluted a comment about smoking, if i may .. from what i hear, health authorities in this country, have washed their hands out of public health care. smoking generates lots of taxes. that's one valuable income. there is a MORE SUBSTANTIAL effect, in the chinese experience, is that the horrible diseases inflicted by smokers on themselves, and those around them, represent an economical stimulus. patients (CUSTOMERS) in need of hospitalisation and medicines (EXPENSIVE PRODUCTS). that require, of course, a HUGE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY. in practice, all hospitals are private entreprises. health authorities have washed their hands out of paying for health care. they do some good things, such as, forcing a cap on some medicines prices. there are calls for the government to try to better legislate against exploitation of patients' vulnerablity. but, are they interested in prevention? are they interested in protecting people from second hand smoke, or in curbing smoking? no evidence of those things. yes, they've signed treaties with WHO for proctecting the populace from 2nd hand smoke, many years ago .. the result? the results: MORE PEOPLE SMOKING UNCONTROLLABLY!!!!!!! acceptance of smoking, in this land, is hardwired into the collective mind in such a way that any anti-smoking campaign is done for mere publicity. Practically, anti-smoking campaigns are a complete waste of money in this country! from what i see, i would say, 99% of no-smoking signs represent reminders for smokers to smoke. evolution have turned people into human chimneys (smoking machines??). i've also read that some surveys, in Shanghai, showed that those studying medinice do NOT know the extent of damage, to the body, caused by smoking. tabacco companies can cheerfully have a EVEN BIGGER grin hearing this 16 y.o young girl, from shanghai, exclaiming with perfect intonation: "smoking is cool!!" and surely, this land is SMOKERS' PARADISE! |
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Discrimination Against Foreigners in Shanghai? Hey dude, very often I get comments from people from other parts China saying things like "Shanghainese think so highly of themselves that they believe they are "developed" unlike other parts of china" (dismissing cities like Beijing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong altogther)...and apparently they are so disillusioned that they believe Shanghai is the best and most developed city in the world far surpassing cities like Tokyo or New York etc. I wanna have your opinion on this. I am not from China and have never been to China. I might be wrong but I believe China to be under-developed (understanding that it is developing but in no way close to what we would alknowledged to be "developed"). My boyriend was born in Shanghai but left the country when he was little. He too is of the opinon that Shanghai is developed and rich (probably world riches) and looks down on everyone who is not of the "Shanghainese stock" including Amrican, Europeans and other Asians. Not surprisingly he looks down on other Chinese! I am very fed up with such nonsense and short-sightedness of people from Shanghai and would like to hear some honest opinon. I am anti-racist and frown upon the ethno-centrism of foreigners in China but am shock and disgusted to know that the ruth is the other way round!! Please shed some light on this silly ignorant from Shanghainese!! Elaine |