China – Perspectives

Confident and ready for the New China

They are learning English, they are able to surf the internet, they are confident, they are curios and they are very proud to be Chinese! There are many subtleties of the Chinese culture that are now becoming more clear for me, as I get deeper into the Chinese culture of today and as I become more accepted. Of course many things are improving because I can speak a few basic sentences in Mandarin and understand quite a few, in return people also open up a lot more to me.

I suppose that it is no surprise to find that the older generation still gawks at me as if I came from another planet, but young (I mean children) people readily will approach me to try out their best “hello” in English. Many of the older generation Chinese still believe blindly that Europe, the USA or Australia are the promised land. I mean this in the sense that they believe these countries are the panacea to poverty, sickness and lack of opportunity for the poor. The “Hollywood” view of the world. (more…)

Cultural Revolution

Well, after reading many blogs about many things, some great and some well, not so great… I decided that I would launch my own. My goal is to be one of the “good-ones”. So, I will begin with a straight forward introduction to the purpose and reason for the blog.

If you are interested in reading about me and my background you can click on the “About” tab. In a very brief summary, I am an American-Business man and as such I will follow a few simple business rules in this blog, hence my urge to state a “purpose” and a “reason” to launch the blog. (more…)