Chaos of Expo Shanghai 2010

I translated this article from Chinese to English in order to let more people know what a real China and Shanghai Expo are.

Original Chinese Edition:http://www.xcar.com.cn/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=12006757&extra=page=1

It is the first day of the “testing operation” for Shanghai Expo 2010.  I visited the Expo Park for a whole day and expirenced Chinese people’s personal qualities again.

People looted the guide map of Shanghai Expo when they just get into the Expo Park.  They all rushed up to volunteer who have maps on their hand. People who did not get the guide map run to the next volunteer to ask for guide maps.  Each volunteer’s guide maps had been carried off by the crowd people.  To my surprise, aged people such as grandfathers and grandmas run as fast as F1.

Today there were only a few pavilions opened for the “test operation”.  At the gate of opened pavilions, a number of people lined up to wait for entrance.  Because the line was too long, some people started to jump the queue.  By my obverzation, the majority of people who jumped the queue are men and women aged 40 and elder.  The fact was when one jumped a queue, the others then followed them in hot pursuit.  I felt that they beleived if they did not jump aqueue, they maight loose a big amount of money.  People who jumped the queue did no response to the others’ criticism.  Some even argued with people who pointed out they were jumping the queue. Italian pavilion’s glass wall was smashed by the crowed people.  Foreign employees had never met the sense, I considered that they were frightened and become crazy.  Soon the German Pavilion closed, and then the British Pavilion closed, finally the Australian Pavilion closed its door.

Beside this, the drinking area became garbage heaps and no one could drink there.  The most important point is that visitors today are all Shanghainese(Citizens of Shanghai).  As we all know, the personal quality of Shanghainese is not the worst in all Chinese people.  How can we image the situation when the Shanghai Expo open for all the nation’s people in May 1?

Some photos taken from the Shanghai Expo Park

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