Shanghai Slappers…

Who said China was a communist country? Who said China was full of cabbage growing peasants with rosy cheeks and ungroomed eyebrows? Not me, that’s for sure.

Shanghai women are slim, beautified and well dressed – they have a LV (no, not luncheon vouchers) for every day of the week and they certainly know what they want – a Rich Guy. Hell, me too! In a country where the average size is a UK6, I was looked at upon with pity at being so grossly obese and unattractive. My dress was too casual, my tummy too large, my hair hadn’t been groomed for months and my skin exposed to the sun a tad too much. Everything about me was wrong. When I asked for a bigger size, I got pitying looks and a wide eyed shake of the head. Nothing is more embarrassing or condescending than that!

Ah well. China is no communist country, there is no uniform of green clad boys & girls, proudly holding their red books aloft, there is Prada, LV and Coach. Everybody is not equal, there are some more equal than others and Shanghai is especially very multi-cultural. I was amazed at Shanghai, it’s traditional and modern, communist and commercial, it’s polluted yet spotless – it is just truly amazing. loved it and would I go back? Yes, definitely!!!

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