My Respect for a Country that Truly Respects It's People

Upon our arrival to Shanghai we had to pass through the customs gate at the airport. As we were patiently waiting in line to do so the gate was all of a sudden closed before everyone one in our group was able to pass through. Being one of the people who had not passed through I was a little concerned until they attached their little sign to the gate that read something along the lines of, "There will be three minutes of silence for the vicitms of the earthquake." At approximately 2:28pm May 19-May 21 there was a designated three minutes of silence to mourn the loss of so many people to the earthquake. I was actually honored to be a part of this and to know that the country cares for it's people. But later I had an even deeper respect for this country...after we met Lily she actually informed us that we would have to alter our itinerary because they actually cancelled all entertainment for these three days out of respect for their people as well. This means that the Acrobatic Show that we were supposed to see the following night was cancelled and would be rescheduled for when we returned to Shanghai for the second time. When we turned on the tv at the hotel every single channel was news about the earthquake and even the radio cancelled its shows and was talking about the earthquake. Im not saying that tragic events such as this do not matter here in America, but I don't think that we would go as far as to cancel all of our entertainment so for this I have a deeper respect for China.