"Throw in agricultural practices and culinary peculiarities (particularly among the Cantonese), and a bad situation gets worse"
No question. . .save the one the goes begging; when does China move into the 21st century or even the twentieth century with regard to change.
'Terrorist bugs' and terrorist minds have much in common; both breed in ignorance and unenlightened environments.
They may never enter the 21st century in the way the West would like. Remember, in their estimation, they are the enlightened ones (Zhong Guo = middle kingdom). It is the rest of us who are the barbarians.