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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
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.
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I agree with you Rick. Communism/socialism is not the great evil as we have been taught. I also had about 5 or 6 trips to Budapest (actually the factory was in Oroshaza) and some of the guys at the plant became at ease with me and I even had a few dinners at their homes. It was an eye opening experience to listen to them They were very aware of what was going on in the USA and they seemed to love to make fun of the inadequacies of their system.