Life and Travel in China

For some time now I have been cooperating with Radio Kraków, which presents my photos. We also prepared a presentation together - an audio postcard from the city of Shenzhen. If anyone is interested in details, please visit:
http://cnd.radiokrakow.pl!!!

In our neighborhood, a house, a center for the elderly, was demolished. A small building, surrounded by fish ponds, trees, benches, a small park. What will be built in this place? Another nightclub (read brothel). I admit that this already annoys me. On the entire street there are massage parlors, KTV clubs, discos... anywhere from a dozen to several dozen girls of easy virtue. I understand, two or three such places... but the whole neighborhood? And now again, before the new year, the police will close it (they will put tapes on the doors POLICE and TAX OFFICE). The owners will pay bribes or change their signs and go back to business. The authorities are theoretically fighting prostitution (these girls are usually targeted, not their bosses), clubs are closed and reopened, the right people are caught and everything continues. It's a pity about this park and the old people's home... money rules the world.

I come to the conclusion that the Chinese behave very selfishly and thoughtlessly in their everyday life. They don't think about others, they don't care about others. For example, they can drill walls at 1 a.m. or play mahjong blocks all night long (and the sounds of mixing these blocks are terrible). They park their cars on pedestrian crossings, sometimes there are even barriers, so people have to squeeze through, or preferably fly over. They block the escalators, stop at the entrances and think about something. When using a cell phone in public places, they shout as if there was no world except them and the phone. They can shout in the street, behave loudly in a restaurant, and simply ignore others. They never let anyone pass or apologize on buses. They learned to live in a group like this, these are the rules of the jungle. It's a pity that it looks so hopeless in our eyes.

We are so delighted with the Dalai Lama's visit to Poland... I wonder why? I guess it's just fashion? Are we Buddhists - no. Is this some new pope - nope either. Do we gain anything by defending Tibet - no. I understand ideology, solidarity, compassion. I don't have the slightest reason to like the Chinese government either. But from a political and economic point of view, we will miss Tibet. We received thanks from the Dalai Lama, and we will receive a fig from the Chinese. I was recently close to Tibet, I saw how people there live in harmony with nature. They have their own faith, their own customs, the Chinese (Hans) can actually destroy them. But what role does Poland as a country play in all this? I don't understand... Maybe we will fight for the Basque Country or help the Kurds? Why not? If we can do it in Tibet, why not in other areas?

I spent some time recently in Chinese bookstores. I came across books for learning foreign languages, of course there are English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, even Portuguese. I'll ask why there's no Polish? You say, who needs Polish? But... imagine that two shelves were occupied by books for learning... CZECH. Ha ha! No exaggeration, but Polish seems to me more useful in the world. I managed to order books for learning Polish (Chinese version) through a Chinese online store and I also bought The Alchemist (Chinese translation) as a gift. Besides, I came across our comedy Vinci, also a Chinese DVD release. Still, there's not much of it. Our politicians are so anti-communist and anti-Chinese that it is ordinary people who lose the most. Culture, art, tourism are losing, there is no exchange of knowledge and views, there are not many materials about Poland in China. And then be surprised that the Chinese want to visit Germany, France, Prague in the Czech Republic, and know nothing about Poland. They don't know whether we have mountains, lakes or some sea, what language we speak, and among the cities they only know Warsaw (Hua-Sha). How much do we lose on this! We are becoming a third-rate country in Europe for Asians. And we live in times when Asia has to be taken into account, probably even more than the USA.