Websites I have had easy access to can suddently be closed to me in my course of staying in China. This has yet to happen to me in other countries including ones like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia(I did have my side of the hotel's wifi turned off for some unknown reason there). The GuoAn is ever so vigilant in making everyone's lives miserable. If you are using proxy's then even more so. You may be older, but certainly you cannot say you are as well traveled enough where you can make comparisons.

As for blaming china for everything that is wrong with the world, I certainly wouldn't lower myself to that level of thinking. It's folks such as you who need to cling to my every word and examine how much I dislike the things you may have said to me and projecting them into funny ideas such as the possible fact that I blame China for everything. I believe people have a responsibility to back up their beliefs, and your diddling with other people's values on how one should behave would only serve me to believe that whatever environment you are living in has condoned and allowed this behavior to continue, therefore it must contain a lot of backwards ways of thinking. Since you are in China right now I can only draw out negative opinions of the place based on your statements towards me.

I don't smoke either, and I do appreciate those who do tread more on the side so as to not let the unpleasant secondhand backdrafts blow in my face. See, you can be sure how right you are with your opinions so long as you stick to them.