moleculo
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So I'm in China for this week and part of next week. currently in Qingdao, which is on the coast due west of Korea. I had never heard of this town until fairly recently, but this town is huge...10+ story buildings all over the damn place. Apparently this is the largest port in Asia, and a tourist spot as well.
My hotel is near the beach in the city, but my factory is about an hour away in an extremely rural area. Driving in, you see fields of corn, peanuts, fruit trees, and other crops I can't identify. The farmers use the roads as a hard surface to thresh and then dry their peanuts - it's a little odd to be doing that type of work on the road but whatever. There are cows just wondering around, and lots of country folk driving around on plow/mini-tractors. Tons of wind turbines as well - all over the place.
It occurs to me that the Chinese have more freedoms than Americans do. i mean, sure they don't have freedom of speech/press/ etc, but no one in America has anything meaningful to say anyways. Here in China, folks aren't held back by restrictive governmental regulations such as:
The food is...interesting. Everyone in our group sits at a big round table with a giant lazy susan in the middle. The waitresses bring various dishes and put on the lazy susan...someone spins it aorund, and people just pick off whatever they want. You don't fill your plate first, you just eat from the communal dishes. It's a little gross. no rice here, but lots of dumplings and sea-food. Today at lunch they served mutton (freshly butchered in pain view of the dining room) and some soup with what I have to believe was intestines and liver. I didn't eat any of that. At dinner, they served fried pigeon. With the head included.
As far as work goes - these people are made to do manual labor. The rank and file Chinese folk are extremely hard workers, and from what I can tell, would be doing manual labor on the farm if not for the factory. Culturally, they are more about fitting in and getting the job done than trying to "be happy" or "find fulfillment" or whatever. I don't see any way Americans can compete with the Chinese in terms of pure manual labor.
anyways, I'm open to answering any questions anyone may have. Bored in my hotel for right now. Will be up for a while. if I don't answer, its because the internet is really unreliable (or I've gone to bed).
My hotel is near the beach in the city, but my factory is about an hour away in an extremely rural area. Driving in, you see fields of corn, peanuts, fruit trees, and other crops I can't identify. The farmers use the roads as a hard surface to thresh and then dry their peanuts - it's a little odd to be doing that type of work on the road but whatever. There are cows just wondering around, and lots of country folk driving around on plow/mini-tractors. Tons of wind turbines as well - all over the place.
It occurs to me that the Chinese have more freedoms than Americans do. i mean, sure they don't have freedom of speech/press/ etc, but no one in America has anything meaningful to say anyways. Here in China, folks aren't held back by restrictive governmental regulations such as:
- you have to drive on the right side of the road
- you have to yield to traffic and/or pedestrians
- one car per lane, or one lane per car
- no passing on the median
- no livestock or crops on the roads
The food is...interesting. Everyone in our group sits at a big round table with a giant lazy susan in the middle. The waitresses bring various dishes and put on the lazy susan...someone spins it aorund, and people just pick off whatever they want. You don't fill your plate first, you just eat from the communal dishes. It's a little gross. no rice here, but lots of dumplings and sea-food. Today at lunch they served mutton (freshly butchered in pain view of the dining room) and some soup with what I have to believe was intestines and liver. I didn't eat any of that. At dinner, they served fried pigeon. With the head included.
As far as work goes - these people are made to do manual labor. The rank and file Chinese folk are extremely hard workers, and from what I can tell, would be doing manual labor on the farm if not for the factory. Culturally, they are more about fitting in and getting the job done than trying to "be happy" or "find fulfillment" or whatever. I don't see any way Americans can compete with the Chinese in terms of pure manual labor.
anyways, I'm open to answering any questions anyone may have. Bored in my hotel for right now. Will be up for a while. if I don't answer, its because the internet is really unreliable (or I've gone to bed).
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