Lessons learned from a trip

China and back: a reverse culture shock

Former Provincial Governor Dörfler with the Carinthian delegation's supervisors

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One week, two worlds; that is what former provincial governor Gerhard Dörfler was able to experience these days as a member of a Carinthian delegation in China. A trip to the "Land of Smiles" that created deep impressions - impressive impressions, as he tells the "Krone" newspaper.

"It's simply incredible," begins Gerhard Dörfler: "The difference couldn't be more striking. There is a world where people are smiling and enthusiastically looking to the future together, here we Europeans are looking at the past, grumbling individually. Seriously, we have to be careful not to gamble away the future in Europe."