I do my absolute best to speak with them and frequent restaurants where there are no English menus and no one but me speaks Chinese. I have met wonderful people there and have nothing against individual Chinese people...but in my comparison to the ant farm, that is how I see the way society in the big cities at least functions. I am not calling the Chinese people ants, I am calling that same collective mentality of always drivng forward in the quest to work, work, work all the while never challenging the fantasies sold to them by the Party--but then again, they have nowhere to really learn the truth.