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    Hi Daniel Otero,

    I think you are on the right track to say Hainanese population are more exposed to the outside world. Its proximity to Hongkong makes it easier for Hongkong tourists to visit Hainan.
    Also Sanya is a popular tourist resort. Most tourists come by air touched down at Meilan Airport near Haikou, and not direct to Sanya. Hence tourists will stay in Haikou (capital of Hainan) for few days and travel by coach to Sanya. The coach will stop along the way to have meals. So the local will have a glimse of how foreigners behave and interact.

    But I think most of the substantial exposure comes about through interaction with their relatives and friends who have emigrated decades ago to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and a sprinkle to America, and Australia, who now return to visit Hainan, and in most cases their former villages, if they still have relatives there.

    Human being is such a creature that they crave to experience something extraordinary or something rare -- only for a short time. So many stay overnight in the village houses of relatives.That is where the interaction and exposure takes place.

    If you take an imaginery string and join it from Haikou to Sanya, you will be surprised, to discover that the villages and towns East of the string has someone who have emigrated to the countries I mentioned above.

    Many of the rich from the northern provinces of mainland China flock to Sanya during the winter cold months to escape the cold. Hope you can join them one day too.

    Meanwhile enjoy Shaoxing -- small is beautiful!

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