But there's so much more to see and so many ridiculous platitudes and assertions that have been thrown out by those who've really not gotten out and about and form their opinions based on a small sampling of such a wonderfully diverse and dynamic country.

So people who make negative assertions are suddenly "not gotten out and about" now? You seem to make a lot of generalizations yourself on people you've never met.

There was a prominent British Scholar who lived in Hong Kong with his wife of African heritage (will look up the name later if this post gets responded) who wrote about the excessively hostile and racist attitude that his wife received when she got really sick and had to go to a hospital. I think that folks still haven't grasped how some places can be described so differently as to make one think that they are two completely different countries from separate planets from individuals simply due to the genes that they carry which makes their skin, eye, and hair color different.

Some expats seem to have never matured socially enough where they can carry a long conversation with others. I have met these types and they would rather just sit back in every conversation and not get involved with thinking about anything. They get away with this due to fitting the "right" look with the locals with the stereotypical foreigner image. Being one of the beneficiaries of a corrupt system it is obvious why they do not bother coming out of their own shells of seeing everything as "wonderful" and "dynamic". For some of us, that is a luxury we simply are not allowed to have when we live in such barbaric places.