let's share

I am sure that on this matter many people are like me. Whenever I read something extraordinary nice, I always have this desire to share with others. If you read anything nice about China. anything, let's post it here. Hebrew, English, or Chinese, share with others in our garden.

The first one is written by Ori Maoz, visit his website, you will find more

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When travelling, you get to meet lots of new people and have lots of conversations with strangers. After a while you start realize that many conversations are very similar to each other� for some reason, this is especially true for conversations with Chinese guys (girls tend to be a bit more creative).

A typical conversation would invariably begin with a �ha-lo!�, which might be thought of an attempt in English. Once in a while a brave Chinese, vaguely recalling his highschool English studies, follows up with an English �where are you from?�. At this point they get really stuck, because Chinese pronounce country names differently than the way we pronounce them in the west so there is no way in hell they can understand my answer of �Israel�, and we must switch to Chinese. The next part of the conversation is also quite easy to anticipate, and all of it can be summed up by this �Top 10 Conversation Topics List�:

1. Ha-lo!
2. Where are you from?
3. Ah, Israel! Israelis are Muslim right?
4. Oh, Jews! Jews are so clever!
5. The prime minister of Israel is �Shalon�.
6. Israel is currently fighting a war.
7. Let me tell you everything I think about the political situation in the middle east.
8. Do you have a wife/girlfriend?
9. What do you of Chinese girls?
10. Great! Then I�ll hook you up with a Chinese girl. Here, [randomly pointing at some passing girl], how about this waitress over here?

Regarding #7, you might be interested to hear (especially Fili who writes about this sort of stuff in his blog) that although the formal Chinese stand in the Israeli-Palestine dispute is supporting Palestine, it seems that the general population tends to take Israel�s side. One of the opinions voiced to me was that all the problems in the Middle East would be solved if only everyone would simply follow Confucius�s teachings�.

http://blog.orimaoz.com/