Yesterday we took the presentation in a lecture room. My classmates shared many interesting things about Australia and china throughout the whole progress. I was immersed and felt fruitful.

During that time, I also noticed a small episode: the wheelchair lift was moved by itself. At that moment, what I thought is that I had seen such facilities in ECU campus many times. However,  I haven’t seen this even once in my campus in China.

Another story took place on Perth’s buses. Once when we were waiting for the bus, we come through a disabled people with wheelchairs in lines with us. At that time, I just thought: gosh, how does he get in? I must help to lift him up!

And the bus came, just when I was going to help him into it, I saw the bus driver pressed a button, and then, a pedal slid out, and the disabled man managed his electric wheelchair into the car and said thank you to the driver.Yes in China I’ve never seen a disabled people take bus, maybe there is no pedal, nothing is convenient.

 In city center I noticed an old lady, maybe in her eighties. Her back was bent, she was feeding the pigeons alone in the square. People passed by, didn’t noticed her, as if it was normal, they thought the old lady is equal to us. We went into a shopping center. The clerks warmly welcomed us, and warmly said goodbye, we replied them with “thank you”.

I still remember that, when I was a primary student, my family and I went to a canteen and had lunch here. While we were eating, my father suddenly called a young waiter, asked him:” How old are you?” The waiter timidly replied:”15”. Hearing this, my father turned to me, laughing:”Listen huh? If you don’t study, you will end up just like the poor boy!” And the waiter just stand there, dared not say anything.

What can you get from that? In China someone thought that the service industry is inferior. Also, some waiters themselves even thought that they are truly lower.  Moreover, the infrastructures is still not completed. We seldom see disabled people walking on the street confidently, since the society is not very convenient and friendly for them.

These are the travails of China’s rapid economic development. The quality of our people is not high enough, our society is not civilized enough, prejudice constantly exists. We still have a long way to go before we can completely change them. However, we have the confident, we are making efforts right now, for the sake of eliminating discriminations against those who are struggling.

BTW, A developed country, not only depend on the amount of national wealth, but also on the quality of their citizens, the level of social development, and the construction of infrastructure. Hope we can get better!

Caesar

It was an ordinary day off, we decided to go outside to buy some ingredients, and also to have fun. 

The first station was PLAZA, a western style supermarket. As we walked around and explored, we found that the supermarket mainly provided food suitable for western tastes. For example, what can be noticed everywhere are milks, puffed food and breads. 

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later, we went to MCQ by bus. It is an asian supermarket, we found that MCQ provide much more spices and sauces than PLAZA, most of which are especially made by Chinese. Moreover, some snacks exported from China are displayed on the shelf and we can also see Chinese specialties such as dumplings and steamed bun. In the refrigerator, we found the whole fish and animal offal, which can not be found in PLAZA supermarket ever.

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To sum up, from different commodities provided by two supermarkets, we can conclude the differences about food cultures between China and Australia. Clearly, Australians prefer dairy products and bread, while Chinese prefer to try complicated with different sauces or odd-looking food like chicken feet or duck tongue. 

It is worth mentioning that even in the Chinese supermarket MCQ, we can still see people in white or brown, which shows that people’s food culture is not fixed, but changes in constant communication, which is also part of the cultural relation. That’s how the cultural relation reflect to the international relation.

Caesar

Firstly, I need to claim that I myself do not smoke:)

However, I still want to talk something about smoking culture in China and Australia.

1.Price.

One day, I went into a convenience store and asked the clerk the price of cigarettes for a survey. He told me that the lowest price for cigarettes here was 20 Australian dollars. This shocked me! Because in China, it’s almost the price of a pack of top-of-the-line cigarettes. The cheapest pack costs 1 dollar.

2.Package

The package of Chinese cigarette is very exquisite. There is fine gilt pattern above, famous mountain and beautiful flower, as if competing to tell the customer: I am very high-grade and beautiful, come to buy me quickly!

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The funny thing is that, even though the words “smoking is harmful to health” were printed on every packet of cigarettes, the words were even beautifully printed. And they usually hide in places that are hard to see.

I can say that the box of Australian cigarettes is very simple, even disgusting. Because every packet of cigarettes is printed with the diseases caused by smoking, with the slogan:“smoking causes……(mouth cancer/unborn babies)”

According to a survey, Australia takes cigarette warnings very seriously. They also have the largest number of package warnings in the world, 75% for the front and 90% for the back. The horrible picture of the box covering such a large area made many smokers lose the desire to buy.

3. Smoking Culture

In China, tobacco is not just a consumer product, but has been integrated into the traditional culture and customs, as well as human relations and accidents. In China’s tobacco culture, people of lower status will respect people of higher status by smoking in order of hierarchy. When a group of strangers meet at a party or for other reasons, they would also get quick relation from each other through smoking together.

However, Australia has never had a similar smoking culture. Instead, its smoking population has almost halved since 1991. I think the reason for this is the horrible pictures printed on their cigarette packets. Cigarettes are not fancy, so people do not give them away as gifts, and people themselves reduce their desire to buy cigarettes.

In short, compared with Australia, the number and proportion of smokers in China are far more than that in Australia. Although smoking is never the right thing to do (in my eys), the reason for this fact is not only due to the influence of traditional factors, but also due to different regulations—-In China, buying cigarettes is an important way to boost consumption and raise taxes.

At the same time, compared with Australia, China has more people engaged in manual labor and rely more on some functions of cigarettes to maintain production and life.

it is something I have get about smoking culture from my life experience and researches. And lastly, I would like to advise you not to smoke, cause that’s harmful to you health!

From Caesar

Last Friday, we took a brief trip to ECU Joondalup campus and had a joyous time there. Under the guard of Mr. Zhang, we visited the whole campus, including the splendid wooden gate and two other award-wining buildings.

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Across the visiting, I found a interesting fact about the campus in Australia. Comparing them with china, none of them has walls or borders.

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In china, with an aim at separating them from the commercial and residential areas, nearly every university would build walls. In some way, this policy resulted in criticism and blames, people censure that the domestic university is never as open as foreign university. As a result, although our students have become a adult legally, they are still in bandage of different rules and couldn’t learn to be independent.

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However, just as a coin has two sides, this issue also gets two aspects to think about. Basically, those who study in universities are called students, bachelors, masters, doctors and professors, whose task is to conduct academic researches. Important and precious as they are (whether for society or country), they need to be protect to maintain normal study and research life.

Besides, in china we university students are widely expected to give feedback to their family and society, even country(so they need to be protect). It might be another reason which can answer why most Chinese university have walls or fences.

So we can not simply generalize but to discuss this issue dialectically under the influence of specific national conditions and cultural characteristics.

It is this week’s blog, a little thought towards the cultural difference between china and Australia’s university, about the walls.

WRITTEN BY CAESAR

9. 9. 2019

31.07.2019

In the early morning, we had a simple breakfast and went toward city center by bus.

Different with china, those in the bus are always someone who ride alone. As a result, nobody chatted, few sound in a space. Another phenomenon which surpirsed me is that when somebody got off, they would say “thank you” or “good night” to the bus driver. This might be an difference in ideology between these two different cultures.   

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After arriving at the Fremantle transportation, we met our Russian teacher Jane who teaches us English. It is interesting. Along the way on streets in Fremantle we can meet people in different colors and with different languages passing by. I just wanna sigh with emotion: how multi-culture it is, man.

First stop is Fremantle Prison. Keyword quiet, grand and…… strange. We can see the  Australian architecture in early stages are flat and simple. The gate is like a castle, but inside the prison most buildings looked weighty and depressive. I dislike it.……Anyway, who would like a prison 🙂

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Here we are in the Round house—another scenic spot in Fremantle.The buddy who looks happy in torture instrument is my friend Allen. Which deserved to be point out is that in our culture(China), taking photo with tools like that seems infelicity.  So maybe you wouldn’t see any torture instruments in any scenic spot in China : )

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Group photo!

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Anyway, we had a joyous time here, sometimes we just stand on the street, watching pedestrian passing by, sometime we strolled around the beach, looking for into the distance and seeing the tide rise and fall. Everybody was happy, since they had tasted different kind of culture and landscape, ether did I !

WRITTEN BY CAESAR

23. AUG. 2019

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