>>44379>too mid Nah man I think this is just the typical doomer self-inflicting mindset from imageboard culture you're hitting yourself with, the standards for beauty, especially for westerners, is lower in a place like China than what's probably the standard of your locality. You just have to understand and work with/against the fact that you thereby are a bit objectified in that way as an "exotic" thing within the foreign context.
If you do the bare minimum of maintaining basic routines for keeping yourself healthy (maintaining basic egoistic self-interest) by eating healthy, showering daily, sleeping regularly, grooming and working out a little (and in this context practicing the [target language] a little) you're good in most contexts and don't have to doubt yourself / hindering yourself.
>too brokeNow for sure, I'm no high spender myself, my income spirals around minimum wage, but I like exploring, learning about a variety of cultures and meeting different people and so I set aside savings for travel at least once a year, so far. Now in this case with China, I would most likely have to set a side savings for a two-year period, because the time I'd have to spend in China to actually get to know the culture is significantly larger than previous travels, considering its size and larger language barrier. With the China trip I would hope that I could spend between 4 and 6 months there my first time, because then I could get a scattershot understanding of the regional diversity by traveling to a variety of different cities and staying in the cities for at least 2 weeks each.
It's definitely a project in that sense and requires want and dedication.