Midterm Questions

For the religion question, I thought that the one we came up with in class was good. I liked that we focused on the main regions we studied the origin, migration, and cultural aspects.

For the agricultural question, I feel like it might be smart to include the same information that we did for religion. For this question it could include origin, how it migrated, who it migrated with, how it affected the culture and of course how monsoons played a role.

I just think that by keeping a similar format for the questions will help us with more structured answers. :) or you could just give us all A's and call it a day...hahaha

Chinese tourism law

I found an article on CNN.com about a new tourism law in China.  The law enforced is that Chinese travelers are mandated to read a booklet on proper traveling etiquette. The article states that these booklets, approximately 64 pages, are mainly for domestic travelers but they also have them for 'outland' travelers. The article showed the dramatic increase in Chinese travelers, and this law was issued as a way to project "a good image of Chinese tourists".  Personally, I think that it's great to enforce a travelers etiquette booklet and this shouldn't be exclusive to China. While I personally don't need to be reminded to say 'please' or 'thank you' but it would be nice to know the customs of different countries when traveling so you don't accidently offend anyone.

Here is the link, give it a read it's pretty interesting.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/03/travel/new-china-tourism-law/index.html?hpt=ias_c1