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This photo was taken during the afternoon in Beijing, right around rush hour, and shows how influential traffic can be dictating people's time in China. The endless nature of Chinese traffic was something we experienced in brief, but clearly a feature of living in a large Chinese city as certain to occur as the sun rising in the morning. I found it interesting that in other areas, such as cutting people in line, Chinese seemed to have no patience, yet so many people are willing to wait in traffic for multiple hours a day.

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Traffic

I new traffic would be bad, but there were times when I wanted to get off the bus and just WALK to get places because the speed of traffic was so frustrating. That is definitely a daily aspect of China that seems counter-productive.

It was my impression that the

It was my impression that the Chinese are very keen on being able to get places quickly, but I was surprised that given this mentality there wasn't more road rage or frustration from citizens about traffic.  It’s as if they have accepted crowds and traffic as a part of life and that’s just the way it is.  In the states we complain and have a lot more confrontations.