A 20-Something Holier Than Thou's Take On China

More drivel from the same site as the prior post. This is entertaining, first because I see this stuff all the time (see the prior post on the plant watering team in my office building) and second because the guy gets so worked up about it.

Those Crazy Chinese

Man, you gotta love those crazy Chinese.

My air conditioner broke the other day.

The guy turns up to fix it.
We're on the 19th floor so he looks out the window at the unit perched outside on 2 foot wide concrete shelf that sits in mid air.

Big smile, reaches into his bag and pulls out a piece of rope and ties it around his waste.
Hmm, what to do with the other end?

Ohhh, he hooks it over the top of the flimsy bathroom window which could carry the body weight of a large rat at best.

That's it, in a second he's out their, through the small bathroom window, slings himself up 4 feet to the 2 foot wide concrete block, and he's out there working.

He is perched 19 floors up on a 2 foot wide slab and it's been raining. There is no safety at all.

How does he handle such hardship every day?

He starts singing his favourite Chinese song. He's still humming to himself now and I still feel dizzy watching him from the safety of my own window. Later I quiz him about the safety. He says he's been doing this job for 7 years and no problem with a big grin.

So, when I hear those dribbling foreigners that are spoiled and fat and condescending as they prattle about their democracy and other general bullsh&t……..
…….I often think to myself.... You %$#@# idiot, you really have no conception of what it is like to be a Chinese person living in China today

You are so spoiled and babied by your family and society that you have no idea how most of the world lives as you sprout you condescending cr@p about freedom of speech and your second rate democracy.

I say to you, get a life and leave the Chinese people to live theirs. Right now they are interested in improving there everyday life and maybe sending money back to their family in the village. Your probably trying to charge your parents to mow their lawn

Actually, I would have said "you %$#@# idiot" about the Chinese guy who was willing to climb onto the wet, 2-ft wide slab on the 19th floor with no protection, but that's just me.

We are fat and spoiled, but freedom of speech is not over-rated and my democracy is not second rate. Perhaps you'd like to visit a Chinese jail some time and talk to the political prisoners who've been rotting there for 10 years about the issue of freedom of speech. Or perhaps you'd like to have this discussion with the Chinese professionals mentioned in the post below who finally have a buck in their pocket and would like some participation in the way their government functions.