My experience from hitchhiking in China was that people are genuinely helpful to each other.
It was clear that if they see someone who could use and deserves help, they will give them all that is needed. Even if they cannot, by all logic, even afford to give that much.
If a Chinese person ever needs to go from Helsinki to Rovaniemi by train but cannot afford it, then I will buy them the ticket, no matter whether I can reasonably afford it or not. Because I know they’d do the same to me in China.
They are in many ways extremely vane, but still, a Chinese person can absolutely trust that common people around them do genuinely want their best, as long as they don’t prove themselves unworthy of that. It’s really weird that a people like that has managed to end up with a leadership that is the complete opposite of that!
Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (of these, Kyrgyzstan more than Kazakhstan) had a bit of the same, but Laos, Burma and India absolutely did not! Nepal, then again, did. And I think Thailand was also okay, although I didn’t spend enough time there to really get the feel of it regarding people’s helpfulness. These are simply my personal observations from hitchhiking those countries, not anything very scientific.
All in all, the map somewhat reflects my own experiences.
My experience from hitchhiking in China was that people are genuinely helpful to each other. It was clear that if they see someone who could use and deserves help, they will give them all that is needed. Even if they cannot, by all logic, even afford to give that much.
If a Chinese person ever needs to go from Helsinki to Rovaniemi by train but cannot afford it, then I will buy them the ticket, no matter whether I can reasonably afford it or not. Because I know they’d do the same to me in China.
They are in many ways extremely vane, but still, a Chinese person can absolutely trust that common people around them do genuinely want their best, as long as they don’t prove themselves unworthy of that. It’s really weird that a people like that has managed to end up with a leadership that is the complete opposite of that!
Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (of these, Kyrgyzstan more than Kazakhstan) had a bit of the same, but Laos, Burma and India absolutely did not! Nepal, then again, did. And I think Thailand was also okay, although I didn’t spend enough time there to really get the feel of it regarding people’s helpfulness. These are simply my personal observations from hitchhiking those countries, not anything very scientific.
All in all, the map somewhat reflects my own experiences.