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pugwall
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 Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:01 am Post subject: |
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| Konglishman wrote: |
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| Mr. Pink wrote: |
| Oreovictim wrote: |
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The spitting is EVERYWHERE. The guy who said Korea is worse has no clue.
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Ah . . . but as I said, I was comparing Seoul and Shanghai. I haven't been out of Shanghai, so maybe your area has lots of spitting. |
Shanghai was the first mainland city allowed to have free capitalism, so it makes sense they would have a more cultured people who have had access to better education and employment. Also, since they have been developed earlier, I would guess they have less migrant workers than my area.
I am up north in the Beijing-Tianjin area and I blame the influx of migrant workers more than anything for the constant spitting I see everywhere. I was in a 5 star hotel and saw people spit in the lobby - I really wished I could speak Chinese as I would have asked the guy why he couldn't wait for 20 steps and do it outside, or look for a garbage can and do it there...I think many people are just so clueless and only thinking of themselves. People doing it in the elevator while others are in there is another massive thing that makes me want to ask the person why? |
Got to chip in and say that the first city in the capitalism experiment was Shenzhen |
That would be true if we are talking about the reintroduction of capitalism. However, you have to consider Shanghai's history as one of the major banking centers in the world due to some of the colonial powers controlling various parts of Shanghai. |
I guess we would be talking about the reintroduction of capitalism then as that would be the only definition that would make sense.
Furthermore,China had been proto-capitalist since the Late Ming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_of_capitalism . I really would find it hard to accept that capitalism in China began in Shanghai. |
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