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By: will shoe

will shoe — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:17:06 +0000

I was just thinking of telling Kyle — “ask Mark, he would know” and then I decided to invent my own answer instead : )

I am excited about the trip. We cut huang shan out because the weather is supposedly not good this time of the year, and sadly they’re only spending a day in my city so there’s not much time for exploration. our mutual friend is not my teaching partner! but you did meet the other guy briefly on the way back to the hotel one night, another good friend of mine. I don’t know if I’ll make it back to vermont this summer; it half-depends on whether I get any students to take my class!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:04:40 +0000

Hi Will! It’s great reading your update. I’d love to hear about your visit to the orphanage. Also, have a GREAT time with your family. Yangshuo sounds great; is Huang Shan still in the itinerary? Will you hike Hutou Shan with your mother? More questions: Do your summer teaching plans involve our mutual friend?

Another part of the anti-cheese story (in addition to the biological lactose-intolerant aspect) is cultural: China’s self-centered agrarian empire always perceived the cheese-making non=Han pastoralists to their north as less than fully civilized, so there may be a lingering association of cutlural inferioriy with cheese. Of course, emulation of the West and metaphoric transference of a national need for development to the development of the body has led many parents to add milk to their children’s diet these days, hoping it will make them stronger and more competitive.

Oh–one last question: will you be visiting Vermont any time this summer?

By: will shoe

will shoe — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:50:05 +0000

It is interesting. Milk is ubiquitous and so is yogurt. Most of my students drink milk every day. And ice cream seems to be pretty popular. I dunno why cheese is shunned. But I’m guessing it’s just one of those things that’s hard to imagine…a culture like this just loves its own stuff, whereas we love our own stuff, I’m realizing. For instance, we love cheese, and drinking a cold beer on a sunny afternoon. But the Chinese think drinking cold things is bad for your health, and drinking alcohol without food is bad, so they won’t just drink a cold beer. they’ll drink warm beer only with food. which is disappointing if you love beer on a sunny afternoon. likewise, they literally love chicken feet. It’s considered a delicacy, like something you eat as a special treat. And I can tell you, chicken feet are not a special treat. There’s probably a more technical explanation of all this stuff but I think basically it just comes down to they never learned to like it, and the idea of putting something slimy and mushy like cheese inside their mouths and eating it (especially considering the low quality of cheese here — chicken and egg story, anyone?) is unthinkable to them.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:16:22 +0000

Explain for your idiot American friends back home why cheese is shunned. Please.