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Originally Posted by WI wide body
Rick,
What did you expect to see in China...yellow skinned devils with horns coming out of their heads just because it's a communist nation?
That was one of my points. Our nation has done some horrific things in the past because of the great "Communist threat" and yet China gets a free pass. Why?
My former company got into a Technical Assistance agreement with China where some of our guys had to go there to assist at the factories. I was never asked but I would have went in a heartbeat. But they had some real horror stories about what actually went on at those plants.
So I'm not pointing fingers here...I did many short assignments in foreign nations for my former company after I retired and I often felt as if I was part of the problem!
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I've never expected to meet mean people in any country and I rarely have. No one will believe me, but I swear that people who grow up in real communist countries have the best sense of humor in the world. I have lots of friends from eastern Germany and China and it's non-stop comedy with those folks. When you grow up that way, a sense of humor is all you have that's really yours.
And China will have bad working conditions for a very long time to come. If you killed 1 billion of them tomorrow (or a million a day for three years), they'd still have a labor pool twice the size of ours. We are so spoiled that we can't understand a place like China that has a long history of famine and overpopulation. When you say hello in Mandarin by saying, "Have you eaten yet?", you get an idea of where they're coming from.