升2级,终于可以在这个区发主贴了。
来美国半年了,对这个国家有了一些初步的印象。
跟很多书里面说的一样,这个国家是狮子带着一群绵羊打仗。高级管理者,如联邦政府官员,大公司管理者皆为狡猾无比,深谋远虑的精英。他们绝大多数都出自法学院,商学院和医学院。理工科里有智商很高的天才,他们中的佼佼者一般来自印度和中国。虽然美国的大学很多,但是我依然觉得美国的大学教育是精英教育。美国绝大多数人智商情商都很低,一般为高中或社区大学毕业,做着普通工作。普通美国人一般给我这样的印象,友善,傻,悠闲。
绝大多数美国人对所有人都非常的友善(当然包括对中国人),你要有什么事儿,他比你还急。大城市的人比较冷漠,跟咱们的大城市居民一样。
美国人的傻体现在一切凭着自己感觉来,而且特别容易被诱导。选总统,在多数情况下,大伙就看着候选人衣服顺不顺眼。媒体基本都是王八蛋,为了吸引这帮傻逼观众,无论新闻还是电视剧,都透着一股强烈的浮躁和对个人情感的恣意发泄。与天朝的CCAV4一样,美国媒体对中国也是很少说好话,小心眼。
在美国人眼里,红色中国基本是万恶,践踏RQ,抢夺他们本国市场,造成美国失业率暴增。我有时候就忍不住破口大骂,我CNMD,你们一个个一周上5天班,还想方设法的偷懒。还不起还贷那么一大堆款提前潇洒。就这个工作态度没中国人你们也要失业啊!你们的政府帮你们在世界上四处肆无忌惮的掠夺,让你们本国物价极低,你们除了关心你们死了几个士兵以外,还关心过什么啊?再说,以你们这个智商,说啥你信啥,你还能对整个世界有个什么了解啊!
我最后一篇response paper就是下面的拙作。我们的老师是哈佛的一个女士。顺便一说,美国受过高等级教育的人,对中国人,有真正正确的理解。
Economic Crisis, Chinese People's fault?
In most western people's eyes, China is a secret country. On one hand, It has more than 5,000 years history and awesome KongFu. It has delicious food and amazing old buildings. If an American travels in China, he/ she will be unbelievably warmly welcomed. On another hand, like North Korea, it is now under Communists' control. This is an evil country: they kill baby girls by the name of birth control; they kill young students by tanks (June 4th, 1989); they kill follower of religion (such as FaLun Gong); they pollute the air and water. One day, if war happens between China and US, the crazy Chinese communists will come to US secretly by small boats and kill with Kalashnikovs, at the same time, wave red flags.
If all things mentioned above is none of Americans' business or just hypothesis, The following things are terrible. The bad thing is, now they have exported cheap clothes and toys, kicked "Made in USA" out of market step by step and caused job loss. The bad thing is, the Chinese government controlled the rate between Chinese Yuan and US dollar that caused the US' economical crisis. The worst thing is, just as Chinese people prefer to buy lots of LVs or Chanels, now they start to buy American companies and all American employees will be replaced by cheap Chinese employees. By the way, Chinese people buy anything. August 2nd, Chinese car manufacturer, Geely, bought Volvo from Ford with 1.8 billion dollars (1.6 billion cash and 0.2 billion note) . It seems that the US starts to lost the advantages to China.
The Chinese dragon was not this horrible before. China was once America's ally in 1930s and 40s during the World War II. Chinese Army pinned down most Japanese troops that decreased the death of US Army. Inside the US, Chinese people used to be illegal immigrants and offspring of labors who built railways on west coast in the early 20th century. Most of them do not get good education and take jobs in restaurant. They choose to live in some specific communities so although they are noisy and have some "strange" customs, they will not bother other white Americans. Most of them are cowardly, they don't dare to be drug dealers. So at least, they are not harmful to the whole society and actually they serve delicious Chinese food.
However, in the recent 30 years, things changed a lot. Chinese people started to be well educated and can write and speak English. The worst thing is, they cheat a lot. They copy American patents and software. After this, they sell these cheap products back to America just as what I have mentioned in the first part.
Here, I have a interesting case to show how general Americans think of Chinese people. In my favorite TV series Boston Legal, the famous law firm "Crane, Pool, Schmidt" was finally bought by a group of greedy, ugly Chinese businessmen. Before the last episode, the whole series showed almost nothing related with Chinese people excluding an abortion case. It is very farfetched to have an end like this. However, the writer wrote it to meet people's frustration caused by job loss. Although the firm is fictional, this case represents the general Americans feeling on Chinese people.
Cheap products from China, good or bad? Why "Made in China" is so cheap? Can Chinese businessmen control the price? After several months life in America, I find that all industrial products are much cheaper than those in China even almost all of them are made in China. Ironically, even the exactly same dumplings are much cheaper than those in China. If you are an owner of a Chinese company, do you want to export your products to the US? Why some companies still export products to the US? Some of these companies are invested by Americans; others will have allowance by Chinese government.
Except LV and Gucci, Chinese tourists prefer to buy the latest Iphones in America. Why? They are much cheaper in the US. Actually, these exquisite toys should be much more expensive. However, Apple still gets billions every year. Where do these profits come from? Apple and other US companies pay less to the OEM companies, such as the Foxconn. Foxconn technology, the Chinese company who makes Imac, Iphone, Ipod, Ipad, IpXd for the US market is definitely a sweatshop. Several years ago, Foxconn is infamous because of its low salary. "Conversation on the production line is forbidden, bathroom breaks are kept to 10 minutes every two hours, and workers get yelled at frequently. " This year, tragedy comes to a peak. "So far this year, 10 Foxconn workers have committed suicide." Ironically, Americans criticized Chinese human rights with Foxconn's case. I guess, some of these criticisms are done by Macs and Iphones. Don't you think it is ridiculous? I cannot stand that my compatriots died because Americans' beautiful toys, but I cannot stand it more that Chinese human rights are blamed because of this ridiculous logic. Why these "Chinese" company owners are so greedy? Are these "Chinese" company owners really stand for Chinese people's benefits? Who are more greedy? Do you know what is the reaction from Apple? "Apple, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard have all announced intentions to look into Foxconn's working conditions. 'We're all over this,' Apple's Steve Jobs said at a tech conference on June 1. He called the suicides at Foxconn 'very troubling.'" NO further action, NOTHING MORE. This tells us what is the definition of capitalist. Capitalists do not have nationalities, the only difference is that Chinese capitalists are hyenas and American capitalists are wolves. What is the fault of the Chinese government in this case and lots of other similar cases? The Chinese government is always eager to let foreigners to invest in China and lets so many foreign companies get profits by this way. What is the direct way to save these pitiful workers? Throw your Imacs, Iphones, Ipods, Ipads, IpXds away and say goodbye to all of them. Moreover, all products from Apple are stupid, as we can see from their names.
The US government is always asking the Chinese government to decrease the rate between Chinese Yuan and US dollar to protect the domestic market. Last year, the US government blamed the Chinese government for manipulating the rate. When hearing things like this, I always have nothing to commit. China exports 2 billion shirts in order to buy a Boeing 737. While Chinese workers work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week; American workers are holding demonstrations to fight against "Made in China". Chinese people have no time to comment on people in other countries, what they concern about is when they can have not so small apartments and how to pay their sons/ daughters tuition. Here, I absolutely do not say that Americans are not good. Actually, most Americans are much kinder than Chinese people. I only talk about work. There is no absolutely fair, but do not make it go too far.
Why don't we have a win-win solution? Can a win-lost last long? Why there are so many terrorist attacks? To be honest, from 2005 to maybe 2015, the world biggest economical war is the war between the US and China. Just like in the 1990s the US beat Japan, the US will beat China as well. In economical field, China is still naive and does not have enough experience. The US government, is much too clever. Too eager to get any possible profits and hurt all others, not only traditional friends such as European countries, but also components such as Asian countries.
More worse, the US government losts its control to the financers in Wall street. These tycoons controlled the whole world, from cereal's price to oil price. They are conscienceless. These tycoons can easily destroy any small countries' economy in a few weeks (1998, Vietnam). In the recent world-wide economic crisis, they did not even show any mercy to their motherland, the United States. How can these tycoons provide loans to people who definitely cannot pay the money back? However, in capitalistic world, money works. These tycoons support the presidential election, they can indirectly launch any war, they control the media. One word, they have the whole world.
One day, general public will be their own master. On that day, no one will have any bias on others. It will be a peaceful world.