the presence of foreign "guests" makes all the Balinese into potential "hosts," and many are turned toward sharp entrepreneurial practices. They are beset with "deals" from every nation. These range from the billion-rupiah transactions for land use rights, engineered by Japanese generals, Indonesian-Chinese merchants, or international hotel chains, to the requests for prostitutes by travelling Japanese businessmen, or the search for "good grass" by Euro-American "hippies." On the streets near hotels and on the beaches, young Balinese have learned enough English, Japanese, German or French to entice customers into shops, or to bargain over carvings or batiks. Guides compete fiercely for customers at airports and hotels, then take tourists on a kickback-laden trip to certain shops and "historic" sites.