Wednesday, 7 January 2009

Tai Da Le (太大了)

The title of this entry "tai da le", means "too big", and is something I hear a lot when discussing China with Chinese people. It usually starts by me saying that I prefer England to China because (diplomatically) I don't like big cities and English cities are smaller than Chinese ones. This usually leads the Chinese person to smile (maybe even laugh) and make the comment "中国太大了" ("China is too big").

I can see an obvious solution to this problem, which would also please the Dalai Lama and countless Uyghurs in this region ;)

Funny how no one in China seems to draw the same conclusion (ha ha).

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

But it isn't the west that's the problem, it only has 2-3% of China's population.