Life and Travel in China

I was in a small town near ZhongShan for two days and I must admit that it is also developing and changing. Small shops have mostly turned into company stores selling Chinese brands of clothing, shoes and bags. Industry is also becoming better developed, poverty is practically invisible. I'm not saying that everyone is a millionaire, but you can see that people have jobs and can afford at least (if not a car) a good scooter, good clothes, and they can also eat in a restaurant. China is growing like a weed, maybe a little unevenly, but no cake is perfect!

Look how strange it is in this world. In Poland, we have baby mothers and fewer and fewer children are born. And in China? You can only have one son or two daughters - otherwise you pay incredible fines, for example with the third or fourth child. Another solution in China is forced abortions. I am writing about this because this morning I met a friend who already has two daughters, he says that if he had a third daughter, he would not have enough salary to pay these fines, there was no way he could have another child. What if a woman is pregnant? There is no option for a single mother - no consent for childbirth and forced abortion, unless she pays or has some connections. Because in China, you must have written consent before getting pregnant. This world is so twisted!

I'm a bit worried about the development of digital photography. I don't claim to be a photography expert, a great artist, etc., but at least I started with typical SLR cameras, I know what aperture, ISO, shutter speed are, etc. Most people who bought any digital camera took a photo of a finger, their own foot, a bottle of beer, or a photo of their brother in the garage and they think that they are real photographers and immediately post such photos to various photo galleries on the Internet. What for? Let them keep it in their family album! I don't know why they have such a sense of superiority, they all just have the souls of artists... and just any digital camera.

Several gentlemen from Poland came to Shanghai. One of them told me that they were shocked, they expected that China was a poor and, above all, backward country! They couldn't believe the cars, trains, subways, buses and huge skyscrapers surrounding them. Their first visit to China, of course they also visited smaller towns, not only Shanghai. We should thank the Polish media and our politicians for shaping this image of China! Most people from Poland are afraid to come here because of communism, death penalty at every step, soldiers with AK74, tanks on the street and hard work for a bowl of rice - good luck to those who believe in it. 100% of people who came to China for the first time were pleasantly surprised and surprised by the power, progress and development of the middle country. In Poland, bad things are written about China, and when good things are written only in numbers (God forbid we should praise something or model it on something): "natural growth... GDP... US-China trade..." such dry facts.

A Chinese friend invited us to karaoke. Imagine several dozen rooms with TVs and a karaoke system. Plus atmospheric lights, beer, fruit and girls (about 30 to choose from). I talked to one of them. 23 years old, of course her parents don't know how she earns money, her older brother has a job. I asked if she liked it here, she said no one liked it here. I asked why she didn't have another job, for example a waitress (she only finished primary school), she said it was a tiring job and there was little money. Sad but true... sometimes we end up singing and joking, other times we end up in bed with some Chinese or foreigner. Tomorrow is another day, another night, another men...