User Comments - user23050

Posted on: Fat Camp

Chongqing women are forced to hike up those hills,and are famous for hiking trips and mountian climbing.

Perhaps that accounts for those lovely rears and legs.

 A date is libel to be walking the malls.

Posted on: Money Values and Beating the Summer Heat

I like listening to Amber. She has some really down to earth conversations, that help us understand China.

I think her banter in English is well spoken. This is how 'everyday' Americans speak. Nothing pretensious.

Good for Amber.

Posted on: High Maintenance Girls and the Elderly

My wife is from Chongqing, I am from New York. I say that modern ladies in Chongqing really dress well. Infinetly better pressed, than New York's. 

 It is important to them,that the guy "had better" own his on flat, and have a good paying job.

They are too young to remember hard times, but their parents try to drum into them importance of education, style and saving money.

They are definetly 'high maintence' zor, and can speak for up for themselves to power.

Posted on: Chinese Identity

Many children of early missionaries spoke Chinese. Generally in those times it would be the local dialect.

Children are malleable,perfectly adapted to any culture.

When they get to the point of feeling 'proud' of their 'race'..it is nationalism speaking thru them. Windwalker, above, has a great understanding of what has become a national trait, proud to be Chinese.

Posted on: Chinese Identity

Often what we speak of as Chinese, is Nationalism.

With the introduction of a national lingua franca in

1949 it was now possible to speak of China as Chinese.

"Asia in the Making of Europe", Donald Lach, speaks of the great difficulty of the sailor traders in speaking Chinese. There was no central language, and hence only the Emperor represented 'China' to the Europeans. Not the geography.

Posted on: Chinese Identity

When speaking of Chinese I.D., as was brought out above, this thinking of ones self as Chinese is a recent attitude.

It was Mao that answer the question of Zhou Enlai's, "what shall we do about the Manchus"?

Mao answer 'all will be Han.' And, he added, the language will be Northern, Mandarin, future generations will not have the confusion of so many language's. So by official fait China now had an official language.

 And a identity as Chinese, not Cantonese, Shanghainese, Chongqing dialect, ect.

 Mao understood, that to run this large population it was important to have a lingqua that was understood, at least by future generations.

Many 'The long roaders' could not understand each other.. Now China is Chinese nationally. Thanks to Mao, who had great difficulty with Mandarin, and was very difficult for his officer's to understand and staff to understand his Hunan speech.

Posted on: Wait!

I live in Chongqing...where traffic lights are scarce, and very seldom do drivers pay any attention to them.

Chongqing is often referred to as the 'wild west'. When crossing the street you, indeed, risk your life.

I think this is because the average car owner today, has had little practice driving. It has only been ten years or so that the common person has had access to autos.

                               Ron

Posted on: The New Site and the Guided Plan

I am new to this changing ChinesePod. I think the

 the older system was easier for us beginners to navigate.

Maybe it is as John said, we are afraid of

change.  Let's see if that is the problem.  \

                                        Newbie, Ron