Posts Tagged ‘culture’
Coming to Kashgar means coming to a completely different kind of living. You are confronted there with a mixture of arabic-islamic-chinese-russian-turkey lifestyle, and I am sure, there is much more. However, life goes pretty normal there. What is really nice when you go there: People are not used that much to tourists and when you [...]
When I came to Shanghai, I was confronted with an environment that was completely neutral. Nobody knew me, nobody saw me before. As I described earlier, it was a good feeling and I could start a new life here. Of course, as time went by, I got to know more and more people – and [...]
I will not judge what happened, because I do not understand Chinese culture that well, but for all the other cultures I know, this would be a shame for somebody to do. What happened?
Before I left Shaoxing, I talked to Jane about having dinner together in Shanghai. Both of us liked guo tie, so there [...]
Austria is a very small country with a population of just about 8.5 million people. However, there is no place in this world, you cannot find Austrians somewhere. I do not know why and how, but until now, everywhere I went to, I found Austrians, who were established in this region already. The same thing [...]
Celebrating your birthday in Shanghai seems to be a funny thing, especially if you are born there, are snobbish, have no idea of the world outside downtown, are a bit not that intelligent and your only goal is to find and have sex with a man who is rich so that you [...]
Visiting the Lu Xun Museum (“Lu Xun’s native place”) can be a tough undertaking, especially if you visit the museum in August which means: heat, more heat and even more heat. You walk through an open-air museum with nearly no possibility to have a rest under a roof or somewhere, where there is a [...]