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Shanghai Diaries - July 05



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The upside to living in a place like this.
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10 responses // Shanghai Diaries - July 05

  • Hooters...I wish I had one near to me (even though I´ve heard there is at least one here in germany...).
    Here in germany we can criticise the government to our likings and man we do...so freedom of speach, we who have it are lucky...and if you have a lawyer like Allen your even more lucky. If you have bad luck you get Danny Crane as your lawyer and his partners are in vacation...
    I love watching Boston Legal!
    excuter
  • I wonder how much of the funky stuff people like eminem do on Stefan Raabs TV show "TV Total" is reported about in the US. That is actually an interesting thing that you have the free speech but censor your TV programs...that´s something I love about the German TV: no matter what someone says or does on TV you get it as it is...the counterside is that you see stuff like Jarod from the Bloodhound Gang naked... but there music is great ^_^
    excuter
  • Aric,

    Very good show and you express my sentiments exactly.

    I have lived in several places in the world including 4 years in Germany. Growing up in the US, you are told you can be anything you want to be and you are free to make any expression you wish to make.

    You cannot really appreciate these statements until you live for extended times in foreign countries. Many countries call themselves free and "people's" countries but none are as open and provide the opportunities that one finds in the US.

    It is too bad that you need to leave the US to appreciate what we have in the US despite our problems.
    wolson
  • no blonds? no fake racks? sup with the hr practices in that hooters?
    ever been to the hooters in san antonio? or newport beach??
    bawong
  • Reminded me of the time two colleagues dragged me into the Hooters in Clarks Quay in Singapore, watching Chinese and Indian girls with hula hoops while eating buffalo wings... pretty surreal. :)

    Being American, as the world power we get put under the microscope more than anyone else, but that's got to be expected. China is on the rise but hasn't gotten used to having a spotlight shined on their culture and political structure. Well, better get used to it 'cause nothin's gonna change, it'll just get more intense as time goes on.

    I think expats hit a phase where we realize "you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" and learn not only to appreciate the culture where we live, but the culture we call our own.

    Weird thing is... when you get back home you feel caught between two cultures, not completely fitting into either one. Reminds me of the old movie "Local Hero" when the guy gets back to Houston, hangs up his photos of that small town in Scotland, and in the last scene he's calling the only phone booth in town, trying to keep hold of those memories.
    SDSteve
  • Hi Aric,

    Glad to see you got togetherat the Hooters in Shanghai for July 4th. When my wife and I were on our honeymoon in Beijing a couple years back between Xmas and New Years, she was actually looking for a Hooters there to no avail. She wanted to see if all the girls would have blonde hair and the other attributes of the Hooters in the States. Glad to see it was not the case.

    Great post and so true that we don't realise what we have in the US until we spend time elsewhere.

    Still looking forward to that podcast on dating in Shanghai, its something my married friends and I never discuss.
    SantaFromNorth
  • Aric I agree. Although I travel a lot and now live in China, my most prized possession is my Australian citizenship and the knowledge that when things are tough I always have the option of returning to a safe island at the 'arse end of the earth' (a phrase coined by an ex-Prime Minister!).
    Paul_Flynn
  • I will admit, that while we skipped out on fireworks and stayed in to make crepes with a bunch of frenchies, I had to take some time out to appreciate... freedom.
    leahl
  • You are so right that is something to think about, what people in the free world have and don't appreciate, specially the freedom of speech, is really horrible to make a comment and have to check your back afraid of what might come.
    mundosanto
  • aricsqueen, I think you got a bit muddled up after the part about Obama with feminine features - you said "in what other country can you do that so openly, openly criticize the government (...)". There are a lot of countries like that :), not only the US. I suppose that's what you meant, but still... Sounded kinda funny...
    piotr_pl

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