Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "China Observer"
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@MeiinUK China DOES have plenty of ice cream. Apart from popular international brands like Magnum, China has it's own brands: MengNiu (蒙牛), GuangMing (光明), YiLi (伊利), so you're really behind the curve in this respect. Ice cream is much loved in China.
And yes, you should be picky about your Chinese food. Don't let those restaurants 'westernize' their food too much. Genuine Chinese food is much better than the slop that is often served in Chinese restaurants in Europe.
Re. blocked websites: YT, Facebook, Google, Twitter, TikTok and basically all other foreign social media sites are blocked in China. However, many Chinese people use VPNs, even though it's not allowed. In fact, no VPNs may be hosted on Chinese app stores, so people get them surreptitiously.
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@PhillyKid07 Oh, I've heard about these incidents, mostly on AirBnB. Yes, it sucks. People will make inferences about you because you're the same race as perhaps some previous guest who trashed the place and was also black.
It's a major societal issue, and a psychological issue. People seem to find it difficult to see others as individuals instead of as members of a group. It's like if you see someone with a MAGA hat, it might be easy to suspect that he is probably a racist, but we can't really know that until we talk to him.
There is no quick solution to this problem, but we need to keep talking to each other, get up close with people who are different from us. Then, slowly, over time, will society improve. Until then, people like you, who belong to a visible minority, will continue to occasionally face this kind of adversity.
Best of luck. (PS: I'm not American)
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