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[Richard Pascoe]

Claudia - sad to hear your dream-holiday is turning into your worst
nightmare....

Good Luck 



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Von: Heeplist [mailto:heeplist-bounces at travellersintime.com] Im Auftrag
von Cláudia Leão
Gesendet: den 13 november 2013 09:24
An: Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in Time)
Betreff: Re: [Heeplist] (no subject)


Rick, 

I can't ask all my family and friends to join me on Weibo, I NEED to
connect to FB. I don't have a phone so the only way I have to keep in
touch with my relatives is through it. And The Great Firewall is also
blocking access to my wordpress blog.

About the people I've mentioned that never heard about the Beatles -
they were not teenagers, they were around my age, on their 40s.

I'm getting crazy here. After 8 months traveling peacefully, in two days
in China I was already ripped off four times (even in a convenience
store) and yesterday I was victim of a scam and I lost almost 2000
dollars. When I asked for help to the hotel's concierge to call the
police he told me that that would be a waste of time since I can't PROVE
what happened and I can't identify the ladies who stole me.

I've been dreaming about visiting China since I started practicing kung
fu more than 10 years ago, I was expecting that this would be the most
wonderful part of my journey but today I feel miserable. I've spent the
entire morning crying and I just don't wanna leave the hotel room. 
Do you know how it is to be 100% by yourself, without a connection with
relatives and friends, and having to learn that you should not trust
people...?
 
Best,

Claudia


On Nov 13, 2013, at 3:12 PM, "Rick Wilson" <futureprimitive1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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*Thanks for these videos Shawn!! Unfortunately here in China the access
to YouTube, Facebook, Google, Skype is blocked...  (The Great
Firewall!!) I'm trying to set up a VPN to cheat this prohibition and
hopefully I'll be able to watch them soon! Can you believe that because
of this stupid firewall the average Chinese people have no idea how The
BEATLES or The ROLLING STONES look like?!? Yesterday I went to a Karaoke
house and they do have a few Beatles' songs in their library, but
performed by chinese artists... Crazy!!! Cheers! Claudia*"

Excuse me, Claudia, but I have a bit of a problem with misinformation.
I have lived in China for nearly nine years now, and I use Google and
Skype daily without the use of a VPN service.  China has their very own
versions of YOUTube and Facebook, so do not need the xenophobic American
versions. www.youku.com/ is the Chinese version of YOUTube, and there
are no songs that are banned there, unlike in the West.  www.weibo.com/
is the Chinese version of Facebook, where any and every citizen of China
and the rest of the world are free to post tweets, etc. any time they
like with some censorship or common sense (no nudity), but with no
flaming or banning because they are Chinese unlike in the West.  Hell,
it took eight years for the guys here at the list to actually accept
that I was an American living in China and not Chinese to accept me
here!  Yes, there are many cover versions of songs in the karaoke clubs,
usually Russian or from Hong Kong, but any KTV, as the Chinese call
them, has a wide selection of Western music to choose from.  I have
sang, or tried to sing many a "Uriah Heep" song as well as tunes by
"Metallica" and even "Slayer" (Much to the chagrin and shock of my
Chinese students, I may add!  lol), all by the original artists
uncensored.  Ask anyone today who is a teenager in Brazil, the U.S. or
even in the U.K. who the "Beatles" and "Stones" are or what they look
like, and YOU will get many a strange stare, not just in China.  One of
my current students often wears a "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club
Band" t-shirt to class, so I am quite certain that she knows who they
are and what they look like; and, most any student of English can sing
"Hey, Jude!", "Yesterday" or "Let It Be".  Try to remember that China
has 1.6 billion people, there is more of everything here, and one cannot
judge a country with a population so large on the reactions of one or
two people. Lastly, I in no way wish to defend the Great Chinese
Firewall, but they only wish to weed out sites that are harmful to the
health of their citizens.  Yes, that is censorship, and, yes, that is
not something that I would condone, however, when I see television shows
like "Drugs, Inc.", and I see how drugs are controlling the lives of
thousands of Americans, then perhaps a bit of self-censorship on the
part of our government wouldn't hurt at all.  True freedom is not being
able to do anything that YOU want anytime, but it is being able to have
the means to ensure that all of us can enjoy life to the fullest aka the
pursuit of happiness.  Please, remember that before spreading
misinformation to others who have no idea. Thank YOU, kindly!

Rick
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