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Error in Western Media Report about Tibet I believe that CNN, BBC, and many others are definitely biased, but I feel that this whole mis-captioning fiasco has been overblown. I say this because back when the protests had only been going on for a couple days (before the Lhasa riot), my friend in China asked me to find some pictures online of the protests to send her since the GFW prevented her from finding that stuff. So I looked, and all I could find were pictures from Nepal and India (probably because press wasn't allowed in Tibet). The captions clearly stated that the images were from Nepal and India or I wouldn't have known. (I'd know they weren't from China, but wouldn't have known from where exactly.) I don't doubt that some news organizations made stupid mistakes and labeled them as China, but I personally did not encounter any of those mistakes in my search. All the photos I was able to find were correctly captioned. Yes, bias in news is a bad thing, but portraying "Western media" as a whole as biased is itself biased also. |
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Why I Didn't Cover About Tibet @wonton: You like pretending that your comment wasn't insulting? Or do you just have the same habit as the CCP of denying the obvious? Look up the history of Taiwan yourself. I have no more to say to you. Cheers. |
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Why I Didn't Cover About Tibet @wonton: You're very impolite. 1. Taiwan was never given away? Before you accuse anyone of not understanding the situation, make sure you yourself understand it. 2. Read my post again – I said every nation uses propaganda. Don't be so sensitive. And don't be so quick to insult people in a friendly discussion. |
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Why I Didn't Cover About Tibet Nobody ever seems to talk about Mongolia when talking about a united China. I believe people in China don't care about Mongolia because the CCP doesn't call it an "inalienable part of China". But since the CCP calls Taiwan and Tibet "inalienable", everybody gets all patriotic and calls those places inalienable and forgets the fact that Mongolia was once part of China too, but was given independence. So my belief is that Chinese people's desire for a united China has very little to do with history, but more to do with national pride guided by the CCP. (Ok I'll just say the ugly word – propaganda. Nothing to be ashamed about. Every nation uses it.) BTW, I lumped Taiwan and Tibet together above but I understand that their situations are totally different. One of them has been self-governed with remarkable success for half a century. The other, well, hasn't. |
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Expression to Appropriate Impression That's pretty impressive that you're able to get around San Jose without help from a GPS. I live in the Bay Area and without a GPS I'd still get lost all the time in San Jose and San Francisco. |
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Map of Motel 168 @jerry The Extry & Exit Bureau didn't let me extend my L Visa without the pink paper. But of course maybe this policy isn't always enforced. If I had been wearing a business suit, maybe they wouldn't have told me to go get one from the police station. |
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Map of Motel 168 Oh and I brought that up because it seems a lot of other motels don't provide that paper. (At least that's what they said, but maybe they didn't know what I was talking about.) |
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Map of Motel 168 I think it's also worth mentioning that Motel 168 provides foreigners with that pink paper (Temporary Residence Permit). You're supposed to get it within 24 hours of entry to Shanghai, though you probably don't need it unless you know you'll need a visa extension later. |
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Yifan's New Year Photo Cute! He looks ... Korean. Haha. |
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Foreign Job Seekers Move to Shanghai Darkdukey, I think it's more than that. I'm an ABC but oftentimes when someone in China realizes that I'm of Chinese ancestry and that I can speak a little Mandarin, I'm treated like I supposed to denounce America and love China. One university student blatantly told me, "You're Chinese, not American." |
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Photography Technical Details of Night Scenes You forgot to mention what the ISO was set to. :) |
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Heading to San Jose Tomorrow The weather was a little odd yesterday around San Jose. All other days for the past week have been about 18-30 degrees C, and it looks like today and the next couple days will be the same. Might take a while to get down to 14-23 C, so be sure to bring some t-shirts. :) |
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Mac Cannot Access Internet in China I'm in Shanghai and on a Mac. No problems for me so far. |
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Beijing is Cold. Life is Warm I'm from SF. I was in Beijing last week. I'm in Shanghai right now. :) |
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Best Buy Opens Store in Xujiahui They sell Macs at Best Buy here? Neat. I don't think they do in the U.S. |
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Night Scene of Xujiahui These are beautiful. That first one especially. How are you getting such clear shots at night? |
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The Great Well in Jinmao Tower Wow, neat. I'm going to Shanghai later this month. Will check it out. Happy new year! |
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Suggest a Topic Traveling in China during Chinese New Year. |
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40 Minutes for a Taxi at Hongqiao Ummm ignore my last post. Was supposed to go in that "suggest a new topic" post. |
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40 Minutes for a Taxi at Hongqiao Traveling in China during Chinese New Year. |
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Is Beijing Ready? 55 RMB trip?? Did you mean 15 RMB? Or am I confused...?? |
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Lining Up for Metro? But how do you enforce penalties (fines) when most people are poor or don't even have IDs? I have to say Shanghai's "messiness" (can't think of another word at the moment) surprized me when I visited for the first time, but I guess it's understandable when you see how many people there are. Sort of. Well it definitely felt like a city in transition. And I thought those rules for Chinese tourists are hilarious. First time I saw a "No spitting" sign was inside a train in Beijing (a year before I visited Shanghai). I can't read Chinese so I had to guess from the picture, but my friend told me that it in fact was a "No spitting" sign. I'd have never thought anyone would spit inside a train but I guess anything's possible in China. :) |
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Shanghai is Coooold Wow... A topic about weather turns into a discussion on national pride... Strange, as TingLi pointed out. :) Anyway, I'm from and I live in Fremont (close to San Jose) but I check Shanghai weather often because I was there this past summer and I'll be going there again next month. The numbers for degrees generally look similar to the degrees here so I always assumed the weather in Shanghai feels like the weather here, except for the extra rain. I never thought about humidity being a factor in how cold a place is. Thanks to those of you who brought that up! |