Oh, I agree, and I don’t complain. I enjoy bad weather, I just like talking about it. :P

Which reminds me of a story–

I was teaching English overseas. A top student cornered me after a class to ask an advanced question. He told me a joke in English. He said, “I’ve heard that in America everyone always talks about the weather. But no one ever does anything about it.”

I laughed and said, “That’s really quite funny.”

He asked, “Why?”

…it wasn’t quite crickets but explaining why that joke is good took a long time and was, to someone raised in a Confucian culture, completely unconvincing.

You mean they don't have this guilt culture of "do something or burn in hell"?

That's indeed very typical of Abrahamic religions.*

I've been told that it's not that easy to explain the differences of Judaism, Christianity, Islam in China.

(The more flavours of above "religions" I encounter the more similarities I see)

Cheers Rolf
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*) Not sure if there is hell in Judaism or at even Samaritanism.