China's railway autorities might have symbolically reduced the speed of fast trains after the
Wenzhou train crash, but - wonders
author Bill Dodson in his weblog - why is it so hard to slow down society when things go into the wrong direction?
From his weblog:
Chinese society – or rather, Chinese people – are still impatiently slamming up high rises like there is no tomorrow, driving recklessly through increasingly congested roadways, and flipping properties like a cook making pancakes on a Sunday at a crowded Iowa diner. Conversations in tea houses and coffee houses and restaurants are about business – or about money. Never have I heard between sips of lattes by women in vertigo-inducing pumps or men toting man-bags a philosophical discussion about the state of the State or a hearty debate about the direction in which the society is going. It’s all about money: where to find it; how to get it; how to show it off.
China is still in the fast lane, with little inclination to slow down.
More in Bill Dodson's weblog.
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China's railway autorities might have symbolically reduced the speed of fast trains after the Wenzhou train crash, but - wonders author Bill Dodson in his weblog - why is it so hard to slow down society when things go into the wrong direction?
From his weblog:
1 comment:
What most outsider or shall I say westerners? do not understand about Chinese is: MONEY is their preoccupation. Has always been, and will never change.
I have written it countless time: to understand a country, or people, understand their history. Not just cultures. IF you go back to the history of China, they built on money. To the Chinese, even more so than the American, money is power.
I once had a discussion with someone who lives in Shanghai/China for more than 10 years and married to a Chinese: I wrote: Present day Shanghai is no different than the Shanghai of the 20s, 30s, before, after and in between the last two WW - cater to the fortune- hunting-foreigners and the corrupt= wealth-Chinese. I am not being mean. Just telling the true facts.
History repeats. So obvious. Only the blind or those unwilling to know would not see. Of course this time, it will take much more before there comes another revolution.
Cindy
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