After living and working in China for over a year and a half…I strongly support a shift in policy towards the organization that calls itself “the people’s republic of china” from the US.. I now tell the people that ask me, “Do you like china?” flat-out, “No”….That’s been a digression from “Yes, I do.” to “Sometimes” to where it stands today. I tell them the chinese have demonstrated to me a business acumen akin to that of mice. They chew holes into other people’s securities and if they get caught, their only recourse is to make more mice….Mice are not friendly…just cute to some. If there ever was a supremacist attitude being fostered through a racist inclination, I would say china is the new Nazis…if they aren’t already the undiscovered foundations of the old ones. (Personally, truthfully, I had every female I courted here rebuff me on the basis of my not being “chinese”…To my upbringing this is skewered social engineering…reinforced in terminology such as “lao wai” or “foreigner”, which is to say, “you are not one of us, how unfortunate for you..”…At the end of my stay here though, after all the deceits and denials, I’ve learned to take that term “foreigner” as high compliment. Before coming here, from about 2003 to 2009, I used to probe the justifications for US involvement in the Korean War, finding little…..Then I privately engaged the Sino-business acumen….Now I see the just cause that was involved in protecting US ethic and moral standard especially in business affairs. It is most likely a racist inclination that was being exploited and utilized then in affairs associated with the US occupation of Japan. I would say that the sino-business acumen today still maintains a strong presence in the Asiatic agenda and that the business atmosphere is polluted.
Also my experiences here tell me there is a great deal of recent mimicry of the US in chinese legal resolutions and concerns, but there is a huge disparity when it comes to enforcement or debate within the chinese society concerning these resolutions. Lip service. Legal enforcement in chinese society seems to react to only the greatest of disturbances and fatalities and does so more on the basis of removing a bad note from divine harmony or something of that order. There seems little redress or address to social improprieties. Unless of course it is to the nation’s advantage. In the US , “God helps those who helkp themselves”, in china “God helps those who helps the chinese”
There is also a reckless population expansion going on (that is racially chinese) in the country right now along with its upsurge in urban development….A ghettoization of the countryside….This invariably compromises the world’s future resources in terms of consumption…even as the world has begun cautioning its populations in these regards…This is sure provocation to the supremacist idea…especially in a matriarch society. My feeling is that the US should start demanding some of those jobs it has exported to the country in goodwill either back to its own soil for the opportunities and investments of its own infrastructure or china will need to start suspending the restrictions and regulations of its policies so that a greater extent of foreign labor has access to those jobs and china is willing to host them without discrimination. China cannot emmulate the US ordinance without a demographically, racially, diverse population..It does not have the same economic, social or even global challenges towards the greater good without that dynamic…Therefore it is not progressive. Not just the wealthy of the world, which seems china’s number one criteria. Too often, those who I have worked with in china, have tried to intimidate me in situations of arbitration by the “this is china!” clause. I have heard from others I am not alone in this. I am willing to fight this tendency also.…It usually is the wealthy who are more apt to buy their way out….which becomes another one of china’s incentives for inviting them..
I have been educating many students here in forums of oral English and I have also witnessed a great extent of proficiency in those students and populations in the hopes that it would bring greater discourse and deliberation between our cultures, and yet when the occasion arises where such skills would be beneficial to my person, (I have no proficiency in the chinese dialect), those very same students and populations instead take the subversive tact of with-holding those skills in my defense. I find that ethically perverse as I am here by their invitation. It also leads me to regard their impetus for being more receptive to foreigners who exhibit a proficiency in the chinese dialect as being slightly more than mere conversation ….I think perhaps it is because those foreigners who have the ability to navigate and communicate the vast chinese populace by their own accord, prove to be greater national security threats than those who cannot..because of their greater degree of independence.. So the “hip” young, foreigners that appear popular with the chinese young people because they can openly communicate with them are really being duped, monitored and directed. This “hip” crowd remains essentially tokens here, which only serves to enhance the effect of being “chosen”.. and “modern”. (for the chinese to have attractive foreigners endorsing their country is a boon…) If you don’t speak chinese, you get pushed around…if you do, you get escorted. Neither gesture is too friendly in essence.That is my observations..of course since I do not know chinese, I cannot verify this…but I sometimes have been given the feeling that the chinese are skeptical of my proficiency with their dialect…whenever I exhibit a greater proficiency,which has arose out of practicality here…suddenly it seems they are suspicious.
