"If you think of it in a stereotypical way, for those asians who work hard and receive good uai, they would prefer to stay in sydney and melbourne even if they couldnt make into highly demanded unis like unsw and usyd they would choose to go to macq and uts instead of going all the way down to canberra so they can keep in close contact with their families since family value is very important to asians. For those asians who got "educated" by "young and dangerous" they wouldnt make it into anu."
Dude, I came here in 1996, so yeah, if I come here to study, I guess I'll be one of those anomalies.
bikapika said:
unless you go to some really remote chinese country towns in tibet(dalai lama disagrees that tibet is a part of china though), otherwise you wont see squatting toilets (its not japan) nor dirty atmosphere. man seriously go to shanghai, beijing or hong kong once b4 u judge chinese. those documentaries about china that your teachers showed u at high school were 20 years old and the chinese gdp is growing at >10% per annum, 2~3 times of the us economy and the australian economy, or u can say 10 times of the japanese economy. in 3u maths you can see the different between e^(0.1t), e^(0.03t) and e^(0.01t).
That I fully concur with the above post, whilst I came from Shanghai and never visited it again since 2002, my rhinitis I developed in Australia due to hay fever, got much worse from the dust in China whenever I visited, and people spitting phlegm everywhere doesn't help either. With regard to the squatting toilets, it's not that they have been reduced, it's just that there are so many newer ones, that the old ones are much harder to find for you if you're a traveler, they're still quite common to the locals though. Quite rarely though, residents in houses that don't have a toilet flush still use "toilet buckets" to "deal" with the wastes and even though the underground railway construction in 2000 cleared most of these areas by compulsory acquisition and moved residents to rural areas giving them much nicer apartments, some still remain.
"Mission Impossible 3" kind of showed these areas, but that was about all of which in Shanghai that is like that. The infrastructure is certainly way better everywhere else in the city.