I recently visited China, for business, and It was an amazing yet challenging experience. It was different from any other place I had ever been to, yet to similar to India. It was such a slam, and unexpected that i just had a hard time coping with the difference of language, food and culture.
Regardless of these petty challenges, I did make a lot of new friends. They would call me "Princess", and were amazed at my English skills, my American background, and my eyes.
Every morning they would flock towards me and want to take pictures with me. We exchanged contact information and they promised they would keep in touch and take me around China the next time visited, especially feed me delicacies!
Suki was very interesting, because she loves watching American shoes - Desperate Housewives, Vampire Diaries, True Blood, Big Bang Theory, etc. She also loves White men who are white, and have pink cheeks, and a cute fluffy belly. I told her belly's aren't considered attractive in general. So she pointed out to me that we might have cultural differences and thus what each considered attractive was different. So we began pointing out which men we thought were attractive, she thought my boyfriend was cute, but he needed more of a belly. She liked that he was tall. She was tall for a Chinese. She said her boyfriend was her height and had a nice belly.
In the picture with the camo team, they would come everyday to take pictures with me. they thought my eyes were amazing, and yet I thought their eyes were nice. Alice (the girl in the picture) was very pretty, but she didn't think so. This reminds me of how Caucasians like having tans, yet Indians are always finding ways to be fairer! We always want what we can't have! Straight haired want curls, curly haired wants straight!
Cultures are so amazing, and although I had a culture shock for the first 3 days, I began loving it! I recommend visiting China. It is different and amazing!
Keep an open mind and heart. Always!
Breathe!
Regardless of these petty challenges, I did make a lot of new friends. They would call me "Princess", and were amazed at my English skills, my American background, and my eyes.
Every morning they would flock towards me and want to take pictures with me. We exchanged contact information and they promised they would keep in touch and take me around China the next time visited, especially feed me delicacies!
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| Suki and I |
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| Crazy camo team and I |
Suki was very interesting, because she loves watching American shoes - Desperate Housewives, Vampire Diaries, True Blood, Big Bang Theory, etc. She also loves White men who are white, and have pink cheeks, and a cute fluffy belly. I told her belly's aren't considered attractive in general. So she pointed out to me that we might have cultural differences and thus what each considered attractive was different. So we began pointing out which men we thought were attractive, she thought my boyfriend was cute, but he needed more of a belly. She liked that he was tall. She was tall for a Chinese. She said her boyfriend was her height and had a nice belly.
In the picture with the camo team, they would come everyday to take pictures with me. they thought my eyes were amazing, and yet I thought their eyes were nice. Alice (the girl in the picture) was very pretty, but she didn't think so. This reminds me of how Caucasians like having tans, yet Indians are always finding ways to be fairer! We always want what we can't have! Straight haired want curls, curly haired wants straight!
Cultures are so amazing, and although I had a culture shock for the first 3 days, I began loving it! I recommend visiting China. It is different and amazing!
Keep an open mind and heart. Always!
Breathe!
With myself I have noticed that the older I get, the less I want in comparison to twenty year old me, oh yeah, I'm 39 right now. As far as attractiveness goes, I'm like Captain Kirk of the star ship Enterprise, I like all shades and sizes, but my wifes characteristics are by far my favorite.
ReplyDeleteI'm learning how important it is to accept things the older I get. The more I accept the better life gets. I'm not saying that we should abandon change either. They are both important.