I am from Canada, and have had the priviledge to attend several Expos in the past, including Canada 1986. When I heard China was to hold the biggest one ever, a shining moment for China and for Shanghai, I was so excited that I bought a week pass.

The Shanghai Expo in itself is impressive to look at, has a number of interesting venues, and an amazing number of pavillions to investigate.

Only problem… it’s in China.

The behaviour of the common Chinese resident is that of a starving dog after the last piece of meat. They push, they shove, the don’t appologize for anything… ignorance abounding ignorance.

I’ve given up trying to go. I just can’t wait in those lineups. I don’t mind lines. I’m a pretty patient person, but start pushing me, and I’m not the type of person to keep my mouth shut. Needless to say I got in a few arguments.

It is not the China World Expo. It really is the World Expo visiting China. If you’re looking for any sort of respect or courtesy or just plain safe behaviour, this is not the place for you AND DEFINATELY NOT a good place for children.

Until the Chinese can learn to behave in public, I would suggest this is a wonderful site for them, but for the rest of the world, it’s just plain nasty.

Good luck to those of you who are planning on going. Let’s get ready to rumble!

It’s all coming from China. They just didnt invent it lol

You if your in one of those huge lines give it a go

– During the first day of such a big event, this is not a surprise to find this kind of issue, please understand that this is not a little party here, organisors must deals with billions of visitor…

– Hey American, how was it in Woodstock with “only” 300.000 people ?

– My experience is that in any country, during big event, the food is always extremely expensive, and provide hight quality food for this so hight number of visitor is just not realistic.

– By the way, i think that Chinese people here over react, and sorry but no, the new technologie are not done by Chinese, are you mastering in inovation like TV (England),Computers (hard to say, europe or US), INTERNET (USA), SpaceShip (First USA from Deutsh v2 technologie), Aeroplane (France) ??? No. Just take the fact, your computer, the keyboard, the mouse, the TCP-IP protocol you’r now using : nothing of that is comming from China.

–> But don’t think that i’m saying that China is a little thing, don’t misunderstood : i’m “western” (french), i love China (my wife is from Shanghai), and i think that your country will have a really great and powerful future, you just started a little bit after a lot of other country because of locked military-like politic…

I think this is referring to the little pool of water you have to walk through when you come out of the dressing rooms to where the swimming pool is. In theory the pool is full of disinfectant so it kills your foot and mouth disease, or athlete’s foot, or whatever.