Life and Travel in China

...and going back to yesterday's thread, something like American Idol is currently playing on Chinese TV. Why is the whole world so Americanized?

Major inspections begin today in Chinese internet cafes and record stores. It is mainly about checking the legality of software and media, as well as controlling access to prohibited websites (mainly pornography). If a store has more than 100 illegal CDs, it will be closed for some time and will of course be charged some kind of fine. And this is the answer to the question... why there are no Playstation games on sale anymore. I also wonder what the owners of a nearby store will do, where 50% of the goods are erotic and porn CDs?

I saw a particularly pathetic argument today. Well, while I was at a large railway station, waiting with thousands of people for a train (no one waited longer than 30-60 minutes), I saw a man arguing with a woman sitting next to him about a place in the waiting room. The exchange of insults became so intense that about six people got involved, and two women even started pushing each other. If it weren't for the intervention of the station staff, there would probably be a regular battle for a seat in the waiting room. It's very pathetic how people are at each other's throats over a stupid seat that they will leave in a few dozen minutes and go their separate ways.

Today, the supermarket ran out of chives, and since they are usually added to fish soup or steamed fish, sometimes also to other meats, most Chinese quickly bought green chives. One boy, seeing that we were looking and asking him where he got the chives, took pity on us. It turned out that he didn't have any more bunches, so he gave us his chives, and he and his friend bought another vegetable. Beautiful attitude! Give your chives to some white man!

In Poland there are holidays and holidays, and in China everyone works. Most people don't have any holidays at all, and many don't take them either because they're afraid of losing their job or having a lot of backlogs at the office. There are no holidays in factories. And the children? Most of them take additional classes (English, piano, tutoring and preparation for exams). In the middle country, no one is idle! Most people don't have time to rest, and that's probably why China is developing so much, and Poland isn't... Here, you can relax, even at work.