Talk Talk China Will Say No More For Ever
88s laments the demise of the China blog Talk Talk China, formerly a regular stop on my blog-reading daily tour as well.
I had a feeling the end was nigh. TTC's postings became less frequent and less biting, and you have to wonder whether at one point they just got sick of being cynical. Who knows?
Someone will fill the niche- there is an enormous reservoir of material, lord knows.
Also: when traveling you meet a lot of people who refuse to criticize whatever country they're in because "we're guests in this country, and they're not going to change, and we don't understand their cultural, and blah blah blah".
These people drive me nuts. First, they say these things in a vain attempt to act superior to all of the other travelers who deign to utter an honest truth about a particular place. Second, not everything is relative- what is the value of traveling someplace if you refuse to assess it honestly?
Talk Talk China felt no shame in laying into the less pleasant aspects of Chinese life, and even if their criticism wasn't always spot on, you had to commend them for that.
