tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15935045.post3768359308350333437..comments2024-01-19T02:23:51.665-06:00Comments on Journal Wunelle: Guanaduwstachourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12447198404608861357noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15935045.post-68339886953655518862011-06-08T20:38:14.296-05:002011-06-08T20:38:14.296-05:00I'm wondering now if some of this smell I talk...I'm wondering now if some of this smell I talk about is a particular source of pollution. We always note how hazy and smoggy it is when we fly in, and I tend to think it's because of all the coal-fired power plants (the emissions of which are of course unscrubbed and unregulated). Maybe it's that.wstachourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12447198404608861357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15935045.post-90339118395049962432011-06-08T15:28:52.319-05:002011-06-08T15:28:52.319-05:00I love your travelogues. Keep up the good work. It...I love your travelogues. Keep up the good work. It's interesting how you begin your essay with that most primal of the senses: smell.shrimplatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08347542266047278227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15935045.post-66410733548153397152011-05-18T14:48:37.991-05:002011-05-18T14:48:37.991-05:00I love that as a food philosophy, and wish it woul...I love that as a food philosophy, and wish it would work for me.<br /><br />Alas, I'm unfortunately a perfect product of the very culture I'm coming to fear and despise: for years I've had no skepticism and have unwittingly fallen for all the heavily-marketed junk foods, my tastes weaned on high-fat, high-carb, low-nutrition junk that makes for "comfort food" to me. And for the life of me I don't know how to workably turn a corner from this.<br /><br />It ticks me off that I'm addicted (and that's what I think it is, really) to exactly what the big food conglomerates want me to be addicted to.<br /><br />Alas, I begin to sound a bit nutty, even to myself! ;-)wstachourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12447198404608861357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15935045.post-56332695043416498822011-05-18T12:16:16.366-05:002011-05-18T12:16:16.366-05:00"I try intentionally NOT to know exactly wher..."I try intentionally NOT to know exactly where I'm going..."<br /><br />I love that, Wunelle. I'm going to try to get lost more often. In your honor :-)<br /><br />Years ago I met with a nutritionist, who asked me what I wanted with/from my body. I told her that I didn't want to exercise or watch what I ate. I just wanted to BE and for that to be enough. I still feel that way. I want my lifestyle to sustain me. I don't want to be in a gym, on an elliptical machine, or counting the calories of packaged diet foods. I want my life to be lived smartly and for that to keep me healthy and active. It sounds a bit like the Chinese live that way.GreenCanaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16853115389272100845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15935045.post-72811526207920925172011-05-14T11:50:56.983-05:002011-05-14T11:50:56.983-05:00I think factories are in the outskirts of town all...I think factories are in the outskirts of town all around Guangzhou and the surrounding areas. Guangzhou proper has something like 19 million people, but there is no border between the city and all the dense populations surrounding; I'm told the larger valley around Guangzhou and Shenzhen and Hong Kong contains something like 400 million people, the largest concentration of people on the planet.<br /><br />We fly in and out of this area because, as you say, this is where everything is now made.<br /><br />I often wonder how people actually get by. The clerks at the little zillion empty booths selling iPhone accessories surely aren't paying their rent on these proceeds. So maybe the Communist government gives everyone a basic stipend and then they can work a private business for supplemental income. I'd be curious to learn the details.wstachourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12447198404608861357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15935045.post-28466299618426944592011-05-14T09:33:07.346-05:002011-05-14T09:33:07.346-05:00Interesting post! The obesity factor is truly Ame...Interesting post! The obesity factor is truly American. It is interesting that the Chinese, who make just about everything for us anymore, havent figured out how to make and package meals like we do and cut out the middle man. Maybe its on purpose, to make sure that more people have work. And what do all these people do for a living besides the work that you mentioned? There must be factories everywhere. Alot of our jobs are now there in China and more than likely in the bigger cities.Jonnoreply@blogger.com