Sep 14, 2007, 03:42
although these are not exactly great shots, I feel like I want to show them .
I was always apalled when we stepped literally just a few meters outside the main tourist centres of the towns we visited, a stone through from the new rich Chinese going crazy shopping,
to find the most dire poverty.
This mother was feeding her baby with bits she dug from other peoples garbage,
and there are lots and lots of old people, some of them might have had other jobs they retired from and now live on a small pension, who pick the trash for recycle material they can sell for a few cents.
Instantly you are reminded of the fact that China is a developing country, even if in places it looks like just like any touristic centre in the west. rationally fully aware of the growing gap between rich and poor at this stage of development, I always find it hard to cope emotionally with this sort of phenomenon.
Uli
I was always apalled when we stepped literally just a few meters outside the main tourist centres of the towns we visited, a stone through from the new rich Chinese going crazy shopping,
to find the most dire poverty.
This mother was feeding her baby with bits she dug from other peoples garbage,
and there are lots and lots of old people, some of them might have had other jobs they retired from and now live on a small pension, who pick the trash for recycle material they can sell for a few cents.
Instantly you are reminded of the fact that China is a developing country, even if in places it looks like just like any touristic centre in the west. rationally fully aware of the growing gap between rich and poor at this stage of development, I always find it hard to cope emotionally with this sort of phenomenon.
Uli