小红书: CurtExplores 🇵🇸
Beijing, via Birkenhead
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Chinese people aren't always polite...
You can walk into a 7-Eleven or Lawson, get a sad sounding, scripted "huan ying guan ling" or maybe just silence, no "ni hao" at the counter, buy your Nongfu Spring water and baozi, and walk out the door.
But if you ever need help, you'll have an army of cleaners or bystanders team up to find the place you're looking for, spending 20 minutes to get you there.
Which actually happened to me a few years ago...I had a cleaner helping my find a store in a business park, we couldn't find it so she recruited a few other cleaners to help 😂.
My girlfriend on the other hand, she'll go into a fruit and vegetable shop and have a conversation with the shop assistant for minutes, both laughing with me standing there wondering what's going on.
No one needs fake politeness that makes you cringe with every word you exchange. I never want to hear;
"How's your day going?"
"Nice weather today, isn't it?"
"Any plans for the day?"
Ever again.
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Chinese people ARE some of the friendliest and chattiest people you'll ever meet.
China, you have it right ♥️🇨🇳
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Wrote this for The Guardian on a crazy Chinese title race and, potentially, the biggest choke ever in Asia.
Also crazy are the posts in Chinese football forums saying that I didn't write the article at all but it was submitted it to The Guardian by local journalists.
Not sure if it is meant as a compliment or not, but will take it as one!
theguardian.com/football/202…
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Masoot Murtazaabad, Hunza Gilgit-Baltistan 🏔️ 🍁 🍂
Same place with different seasons ... – at Tajikistan
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🧱A new discovery is adding a missing chapter to the history of the Great Wall in Beijing!
🔎Archaeologists have uncovered the first Sui Dynasty (581–618) Great Wall remains in Beijing, at the Dalinggou site in Changping district. A Sui Dynasty wuzhu coin and a porcelain fragment helped confirm the dating. The nearly 5.5-meter-wide stone wall suggests early frontier defenses were more substantial than previously thought, requiring considerable labor and resources.
#ChineseArchaeology #GreatWall #Archaeology #SuiDynasty #AncientChina
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Beijing comprises 16 districts - some urban, some rural - & each district is itself further subdivided into subdistricts.
& for some daft reason, I've decided I want to visit each of these subdistricts.
It won't happen. It's stupid. But there's (probably) no harm in trying🧵
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Comment Etiquette@commentiquetteNov 4
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BREAKING: We've just confirmed that Israel's stall at the World Travel Market in London is advertising tourism in the illegally occupied Palestinian territory.
@Ed_Miliband promised he would ban advertising like this. Will he now stick to his word?
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Israel killed eight people including a child in Gaza this weekend as they continue their genocide.
After a weekend of arresting pensioners for protesting against this horror, Labour has today collapsed local agreements putting Israel far above serving our local communities.
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Okinawa Times replaced its usual back page with all document cases of sexual violence and other grave crimes involving U.S. military personnel in Okinawa, Japan, since 1945.
371 documented cases, but the real number is probably much bigger, as most cases go unreported.
