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I lived in Beijing before I moved to Chengdu. And here I noticed that people are kinda more relaxed and easy going and are not in a constant rush like folk in Beijing. I also heard from friends in China that Sichuanese have the reputation to be lazy.
What I saw so far: in Chengdu sometimes it takes quite a while until you have your meal in a restaurant. Also at my work here in Chengdu as engineer partly I have to work with ancient outdated master data, because as we all know keeping data up to date is actual work… And yeah I saw sleeping people as well in office.
c) The serious problems with humanity as I mentioned are greed, hate, indulgence… etc. Tech will never solve those problems, no matter how much you ‘like’ something on facebook. Animals kill because they are hungry, not because they want a leather jacket or a pair of Air Jordans.
Hmm I’m happy not to live my life as medievil peasant. Considering the age of our species, it isn’t long ago that most of us had to do extremely hard physical labor their whole short life, could potentially die of caries and had absoletely no entertainment gadgets whatsoever… If you ask me, it is awesome to belong to a species that is in the position to do cruel things for petty and shallow reasons. And why the good old “humans suck and animals are morally superior” argument? Newsflash: we are animals as well. We are rather smart naked apes. And apes are cruel animals as well. Chimps rape, murder, steal and go to war with one another. Humans just have this huge culturual baggage that we call civilisation.
I recently went to Qingcheng Mountain. The small traditional village there would be totally overcrowded, if 500 people at the same time would show up. You go up there on narrow roads in small mini vans. One van can transport 20 people and from the nearby train station it takes 30 to 45 minutes to drive up there…. Overall it is simply not possible to organize this event for 500 people.
I know in Beijing it is at least 1000 Yuan among the middle class. Although personally I have not been to a wedding in China, I know my ex gf had to pay this amount twice for attending wedding ceremonies of coworkers and she wasn’t part of the rich upper class in Beijing. So I guess it also depends where the wedding takes place. I can imagine you could be considered a miser in major cities like Beijing or Shanghai by just giving 300 Rmb.
Yeah sorry. I was just stating my opinion. And I have seen this kind of stuff elswhere before and hence I suspect similiar stuff here as well. On a first glance it just appeared fishy to me.
