| I live in china, consequently, my neighbors are all Chinese. Now remember that Chinese are a member of hominids, they are one of the three types. There are caucasoids, mongloids and negroids, and aside from subtle differences such as the shape of the femur, bones in calf and buttocks, proportion of forearm length to upper arm, we are all basically the same. We all supposedly descended from some old African woman who surprisingly enougH looks like that sway back, saw toothed ogre we call mrs Obama. But I digress.
Chinese are part of the mongloids, but what I am referring to when I use the term Chinese, is those people doomed to exist in the big stinky, aka china.
This special class of characters, is burdened with millennia of despotism , ignorance and fear.
Now what some of you have come from civilization, ie not china, may fail to realize is how disturbed this culture is. MaoMao and crew succeeded in uniting this place and then systematically brutalized or allowed one of the greatest and most perverse prolonged attacks on a people in recent history. MaoMao was allegedly the reason for over 70 million deaths, but again I digress.
As part of Mao’s attack on humanity, was the establishment of the brutal dictatorship called communism. The fruits of this form of governance are no oversight, no laws and rampant corruption, but again I digress,
The impact on the people, here, is the widespread distrust of one another and the …what’s in it for me….mentality. Think of them as what you would consider to be a user, but to the nth degree. An example of this may shed light on the mentality of your common Chinese .
As guests in this dump, we are expected to speak in English to all Chinese we meet. Being Chinese they are to cheap to pay for a proper English lesson and this is our tax for being able to live here. Aside from that, you are inundated with people who go out of their way to catch a quick five minute talk, aka practice their English. If they weren’t such a lecherous bunch, this oddity would be charming, perhaps, but it is not. One thing is to live in
a country like Brazil or Colombia where the people are warm hearted and genuinely give more than they get, but this is china, random acts of kindness are more of a mystery than that stupid backwards walk thing all those old folks do in chinas anemic parks.
Take for example, what happens when you move into any neighborhood in a civilized land. You are treated to cakes, a warm smile, some brownies, or a quickie by your neighbors who would like to welcome you to their little area. But then there is china.
The other day as I walked to the pit of grunge where I am forced to exist, a Chinese guy ran up to me. It turns out he’s my neighbor, and being Chinese he did the most natural thing, he tried to get something from me. He explained that he cannot speak english so I should help him….
Hmmmm, ok I do not know him, nor his interests, but by some Chinese mental gymnastics, the most rational thing in the world would be for me to invest hour upon hour teaching this guy how to speak. Of course he would not pay me, why should he?
I explained that I am busy and the little time I have off I must blog about the wonders of china. But like a pit bull, the guy would not relent. He tried to tie me down on a time and place in chinch to teach him. From that moment on, I live in fear of seeing this guy and explaining once again that I have no more interest in seeing him, then hearing another word about trayvon Martin.
The odd thing is that in all countries I have visited and or lived, they did not make as big a deal about saving face as china does, and face is a thing that china definitely does not possess. |
Understanding China, One Blog at a Time 