Japan vs China...some thoughts

The thing that will stick in my mind about China is not really something a country would want to be known for: the horrible smell. Now given that China has one of the biggest economies in the world I expected it to be modern, clean and very happy. That isn’t even close to what I saw. The people are so poor there. There are amputees sitting in the sidewalk everywhere, there are people doing whatever they can for money and it smells so terrible from the pollution. It actually resembles Mexico somewhat in that it is brown, dusty and pretty run down. The difference is the people. Chinese people seem so depressed. They aren’t friendly and the general undertone of society there is just sad. Its like the people go through the motions of their day without a single moment of happiness. Its so sad. It was SO different than what we saw in Japan. Also another difference is Japanese people don’t stare at people for fear of embarrassing you while that rule doesn’t apply whatsoever in China. They stare and point and whatever else they feel like doing. Also, in my opinion, Japanese people are much smaller and in better health than Chinese. Both countries people have very bad teeth…I don’t know that they have good dental care anywhere I’ve visited but I noticed it far less in Japan than I did in China.