The People's Republic of Capitalism?

gloomy: http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/koppel/highlights/highlights.html

What's The People's Republic of Capitalism?

Irony.

I have to admit that in that article, something seems right, but I must deny onething, which is: China is not a capitalist country, at least right now. Cos you don't know our culture and our history.

From 5,000 years ago, our ancestor created a long, large Chinese history (you must be familiar with the history, so..it's unnessary for me to introduce more about it ), till WW2, yes, we were ruled by Qing dynasty and we did a suck job at the beginning of that war. But after Mao Zedong came into power, he leaded us fighting with allied armies of eight nations, then in 1949 People's Republic of China was founded, but before that, Chinag Kai-shek took all precious, valuable diamonds and golds and silvers along with him, settled down in Taiwan. Since then, China became a poverty and blankness country. For onething, after war, people became destitute and homeless, for another thing, our country was cleaned out by the invaders, As they wantonly set fire to The Winter Palace, indeed, was the crystallization of all of the art that an almost superman race could have fancied. Well, what's done is done, we have strong mind to rebuild our country and let the last things which you would expect astonishing to happen. Yes, we are growing, and it has taken us just a little more than half a century not only to put an end to the backward state of poverty and blankness characteristic of the old China, but also set up a modern industrial system with a complete range of production. But, why? And how?

Thanks to Deng xiaoping, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping_Theory) we followed his thoughts and theory which leads you guys think our country is more like a capilist but not communist one. Actually, you wrong, in our economy system, on the premise, that we keep public ownership in the dominant position, that the State controls the life-blood of the national economy and that the state-owned sector has stronger control capability and is more competitive which means commercial system in which state-owned commerce leads and multiple sectors of the economy exist side by side. Cos only by this way, we could get out of poverty fastly and build a system be ours culture, tradition, and the most suitable. Don't forget we have Hongkong and Macao and Taiwan(yet, it's not been recovered), those three places have their own economic systems, but in inland, the industrial level and the technological level are not the same, that's why we use "one coutry, two systems".

And, what you seems right are based on the situation at the moment, which is China and United States are both agreed that with a view to promoting the lofty cause of world peace and development, we should strengthen cooperation and work to build a constructive strategic partnership oriented toward the 21st century, which restrained our economic direction, cos lots and lots of enterprises are all from foreign countries, especially capitalism coutries, which, surely bring some cultures and styles which appearently give us a phenomenon that you are in a capitalist country. But we do need those companies to break out of the poverty trap, so, it brings the effects that workers in our country are cheap and everywhere.

That is a momentary thing. Because based on Need Hierarchy Theory by Maslow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow), China is developing day after day and do its people as well. And, as the high speed of economy, system change is necessary, but not now.

Because:
1st, citizens right now are not all get out of proverty;
2nd, Taiwan is still a problem;
3rd, RMB is not that popular as USD or EURO;
4th, Communist Party is the only party in China in power;
5th, no other economy systems are more suitable than what we have right now.

But after 10 years? 20 years? 50 years? I can't say that our economy system will keep the same, cos nobody can promise that he won't turn red after mixing with vermilion. Maybe then, we'll become one of the cruel, cold capitalism.

We are number15??

The most lucrative college majors:
1. Computer Engineering
2. Economics
3. Electrical Engineering
4. Computer Science
5. Mechanical Engineering
6. Finance
7. Mathematics
8. Civil Engineering
... ...
15. English

Well, based on the article by Kurt Badenhausen, I simply found that English is a not bad but not good major. See this:

15. English
Exerience Salary
0 to 5 years $36,700
5 to 10 years $47,900
10 to 20 years $62,300

Humm.. I remember my dean once said to me that English major is no major. But I treated what he said with the contempt it deserves. I was curious why people always like to learn English or other foreign language, cos somebody once told me that he is a patriot and, he'll never learn other languages except our mother language. I know it sounds strange and a little unreasonable, but in China, most of guys will not chose english as their major except there is on other major left for they to chose, which I mean, some majors are good, but it's too hard for them to take, others are too easy, and they don't wanna take as well, or, they just don't have a choice, cos the score they got was too pathetic, so... And, English, as a course, or a major, is something like very easy to deal with, all you have to do is to remember, remember and remember. Words, grammars, or some other foreign cultures, American's, England's, etc. While you are graduate, you can find a job in foreign company, using what you taught and living a peaceful life. But.

After reading that article, suddenly I found, wow! World is so interesting. Who can tell me why we are going to college? Even when you finish it, you wanna get a higher degree? Cos we wanna find a good job? To earn a big sum of money?

I think in this high development world, only study is not a good way to keep on, and inter- or cross- learning is becoming more and more inportant, especially in our students' daily livies. See, there once a Chemisty major student who studied in Peking University used to pull H2SO4 to a live wild panda to test that if the fur of it will be burnt or not.

Sometimes, you have to be a "éclectique", not a "bookworm". While, I think, English is a good major, cos English is an international language, so, almost every firsthand information are all written in English. To some students who have broad interests, they'll get benifit from it, cos they can read them very easily but to those who english are not good guys, they'll only limited in what their professor taught them. (this is only happen in Non-English speaking countries.) As far as I know, in China, most of intelligent students who studying in Stinghua or Peking University, their English is not that good, but their specialize fields are absolutely top. And, one day I heard that in US, most of the non-inportant "thinking group" of white house or some big company or CIA or FBI are all Chinese. And, if you do an easily search in google or baidu, you'll find that in most of development coutries, US, UK, German, Russia, French, etc, each of their citizens are biolingual.

So, you can figure out, if every Chinese citizen could speak a fluently English, how strong of our coutry will be.

Well, kinda late, so, I'll drop my personal point of view about this article: English is a tool, learn it, use it, to get knowledges of other fields, then, your pay will be doubled and doubled and doubled. One day, you'll be a boss of a big company of your own. So, English is No. 1!

Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary

Ah.. after a whole day's torture, I finally went home.

Home is a good place to let you find yourself sometimes and, it's a quite good place for you to studying and working maybe earning money as well. (I mean, doing e-buisness).

My friend who she is my highschool mate, graduated this year, and she got a job as a saler on inport and export. She took that job only because she thought that she'll earn a big sum of money, actually, she is wrong. It's funny that she wanna got the highest salary but she doesn't wanna work hard on it, which I mean, she doesn't have many certificates enough, so...

The first month, she only got 500RMB, which is less than 100USD, and it's only 50ERO, and the second money, yeah... the miserable thing happened again, then the third month... you can imagine her face when she got the money. I told her to change her job, but seems like she was satisfied with what she had right now.

Because, after the poor three month, she'll turn into a real employee of that company, and her salary will be changed to 1,200RMB, it's about 200USD, and 120ERO as well. I dunno what to say, just, I know, different people have different ideas on something.

I was shopping with her last night, and when we got to NIKE and ADIDAS' section, she lingered for a while, I know she wanna buy one, a T-shirt maybe. The price is not very expensive, about 300RMB, that's less than 50USD or it's only 30ERO.

It's funny that, most of Chinese people like fashion-chase. It's good, but comparing with the salary of westerner's, maybe some people should shame of themselves. cos what they earned per month is about his country's exchanging rate times than what we earn. While, to some specific products, which I mean, the producer is worldwide so, it not surprise, their products' price are worldwide too. So, here comes the problem. Two people buy the same product, persume that their salary are all 2000(RMB or USD or ERO), using theirs currency , but, for one person, he can buy it, cos it's only cost him 3o/2000, and for another one, he'll pay for 30*6/2000. See? how can the second person survive after he bought that product? They'll pinch and save so that they could got what they want.

In China, most of the people are earn 1000-2000 RMB per month, obviously, they don't have the ability to buy a car, but why the latest car displaying and selling are always been held in China? That's another question. As the development of Chinese economy growing up and up, people more and more purse something that don't match them, even, it's just for saving face. I got another friend, who is my highschool mate too, and he bought a car last year, guess what? All his family, including his mom and dad didn't buy anything new nessarily. So..

Then, I'll drop my idea today, that is: Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary.

Something About Money

I think money is a good thing, you can use it to buy anything materially that you need in your life, but it's not alimighty. Since you can't use it buy happy or something spiritually, so... But this is not what I real wanna say.

People sometimes been tied down to money. Like, if someone owed you a sum of it, and you really wanna he or she return it back, whether you are in short of it or not, cos, that's not connected with money, it's connected with your "emotion", you think a thing all day long perhaps, and the whole thing is: ah! this man, he owe me money, and didn't pay back to me yet! And then, as the time goes by, you wanna ask it back from the bottom of your heart, but you can't say it out loud, so.. The tiny thing becomes a big problem. You don't wanna see this person again, or even you don't wanna hear anything about him. But, after he turn this sum of money back, you'll give your friendship to him again.

Interesting.

Don't deny it, cos it happens around us everyday. I wanna ask a question: about money and friendship, which one will you chose, if you only could chose one thing?