有意思的文章啊

Thanks, Prof, Lu,
It is true, from me; whomever I talked with, it seems all West people knows only this city than others, except Beijing as a capital, and maybe there are too many stories about it; a place where the party held meeting the first time historical speaking; it reminds me your another posting about smaller city in the coast of East China sea; it seems 'shanghai' has been a 'English’ word already, though there is little negative sense too, as ‘Mandarin’ in old China.

However, as to me, the majority people in the west, knows still very little about China, which needs marketer not only for economy, but diplomacy as well; surely including cities like Shanghai, as to me, I also see other ancient cities like Wu-han, and Tian-jing as very historical one and strong in cultural influence too; but for many reasons, they leg behind only economic wise, or for a time being resulted from less-balanced economy.

On the other hand, there is no perfect cultures exist in the world, since we are also responsible for all the human activities, as to its negative effect on natural environment as whole. cultures are particular, and unique, so my thinking goes to the mentality of see beyond the cultures scoping only at cities' level, but a nation as a whole, since as other countries, see China as whole, unless, mentioning those cites as an individuals. And now, China needs little more internationalism too.

If we stand on that, I think it is safe to say that of ‘absorbing all essentials of cultures, no mater cities’ or nations’ could be a far-reaching mentality beneficial for us and our next generations. If I am not wrong,

So, 海纳百川，so nicely a proverb in Chinese, could be and should be, regardless cities’ boundaries, an attitude for man and woman, ‘Shanghainese’, ‘Wuhan-ian’, or ‘Tian-Jing-ger’, whatever namely, at locations that he or she stays, even a nation shares with all others in this world for a better planet to live in. Surely, it is easy said than done some times.

Added, your posting, is really interesting in respect of sub-cultural diversity within China which is so vast a country; as I can feel it, together with your previous posting regarding to the smaller cites, and globalizations it forms a interesting topic to me….hope to other readers too; and quite provoking and inspiring!

Thanks, truly,
@@John-Sha, on far-side of the world.

noted:
有关上海人的专著超过中国任何地方的人。普通的外地人对上海的议论更是不绝于耳，上google搜寻引擎，有关"上海人"的条目多达１７０００项。

Thanks John Sha for your comments on diversity of cultures. :)

Very interesting one. The reason that Shanghai is so unique and fansinating is because of its people. Good or bad:):) Just came back from Beijing and Shanghai, these two cities are quite different. I think Shanghai is much better and obviously much fun to visit and live. This is why the cost of round trip flight from US is much more to Shanghai than to Beijing.

Sorry, we have no time to visit school during this trip. I will try next time.

In term of your preivous Lawyer article. We have a saying here: IF a town is too small to have enough work for a lawyer, bring two so they can litigate each other:):)

I will consider purchasing my plane ticket to USA from Beijing then. Thank you for the information. :) Be sure to visit USST next time when you come back to China.

在上海很长时间，在学校这个环境里碰到的都是好人，这是很幸运的一件事，学校就像自己的家一样，大家看你和自己人一般，很温暖，或许这是学校历史所具备的海纳百川的特性，毕竟学校的发展一开始就是各类人的聚集之地。在学校之外，辗转过很多租房的地方，和很多的上海房东及邻居打过交道，感觉不是太好，很少有人微笑，很少有人真正地对你信任，这种不信任对人的伤害很大，自己是皮厚之人也是敏感之人，觉得这种不信任像打在墙上的球一样同样会从我的身上回到她们那里。
我们不能苛求太多，上海已经是个满好的城市，在包容性上来说，在上海的十几年是有亲身体会的，文化的冲突肯定会有，但有冲突才会有活力。
上海的部分优越感和部分小市民中对老人的态度自己是有看法的，在孝敬老人上觉得内地很多城市的人们要更恪守这基本的为人道理。
谈了很多，肯定会好的，好的东西会保留下来，会越来越好的。

是的，全世界的大学大同小异，种族歧视、地域歧视、性别歧视，所有的歧视，在大学内部都缩小到不能再小，因为，这里是社会的良心所在。