Shanghaiist: Africa in Shanghai

taihanasie

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:51:01 +0800

"but pretty sure grinding on girls in clubs is an African American thing only..." While I find LCLT's comment to be a bit broad, there is an element of truth to the grinding on girls in bars comment. When I was in Shenzhen, the Africans had reputations for doing that precisely. Many many many times I saw groups of them corner or surround women and commence the grinding. I actually saved one Chinese woman once from excessive grinding and was promptly told by one of the Africans that I should not move in on his territory, as if she were something to be owned. I was not interested in her actually. I just felt bad for her, and I could tell she was grateful that she had been liberated from the grinding.

larboard

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:29:30 +0800

What a waste of tax payers money. That money could have use to help the dirt poor peasants in rural areas of China.

xiaochensu

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:16:42 +0800

@LoveChinaLongTime: nicely said...but pretty sure grinding on girls in clubs is an African American thing only...

LoveChinaLongTime

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:09:49 +0800

Every day is African Appreciation Day here in southern China. They are so friendly and kind, always offering their drugs to passersby and showing their warmth by grinding alongside girls in crowded, sweaty dance clubs even if the girls specifically ask them not to. They are misunderstood, revolutionary, third world compatriots that we Chinese need to nurture, though without interfering in their internal affairs.

taihanasie

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:18:14 +0800

While I welcome any effort to help Chinese people learn about the rest of the world, I do wonder about the effectiveness of a museum that covers art from 20 African countries in 400 square meters on an (annual?) budget of 1 million RMB. You would really need a multimillion USD museum housed on several floors run by world-class curators to do the continent justice. And then you would need plenty of advertising to build interest in the museum's collections. Imagine putting "Asian art" in a museum of similar size with similar funding in a foreign country where knowledge and interest in Asia is low. Still, opening the museum is a nice sentiment.