| When I label people, i label them as good/bad, smart/stupid, considerate/rude,etc rather than white/black, Chinese/UK, Christian/Muslin.
Yes, Jeoy, there are a lot of white red-neck trashs around in Shanghai. But this does not mean all expats are bad. Sputnik, i think you also need to travel more since many oversea Chinese are doing terrific jobs in those most reputable companies in the world. Here in US, we also have St. Patrick day to honor Irish American's contribution to US, Colombus day for Italian American, and Porte Rico day, Jewish Holliday, Chinese New year parade, etc. We Ameican don't think this is a "terrible" thing. 30 years ago when Japanese companies exported their "better and cheaper" products to US, it did irritated some union workers here. They called Japanese "stealers". But no matter what kind of noise they made, the world ended up getting better products from both Japanese companies as well as improved US manufactures. Today US and EU companies are thifting their manufacturing sector to China. They also want a piece of chinese consumer market. This allows China to learn from the outside world(both success and mistakes) as well as contribute to it by lowering Consumer Price Index of most western countries. (This also forced Carsten's hometown neigbours to seek other opportunites to suit themselves into this fast changing global labor market. I believe most of them will do well.) The new trend of globalization is making the whole world more and more like one family. Find a positon in our big family and contribute to it. Racialism is a disease of human being. It costed lives in our history. Let us work together to cure this. Shen |
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