2007年9月27日星期四

The pathetic English guys

There is a so good way to enjoy them that the English media love dipping their finger into the blood of others. That is why the British Empire has been a great economical unit over a century as well as its deep falling down in the last 50 years. It’s a big pity that those few domestic geniuses, who have realized the problems, were gone to USA mostly. We can hardly imagine that how the new ideas put up by the new generation talents against old-fashioned nob and political inertia are raped by the “Your highness”. This looks just like a ship racing, the English ship has fallen behind after centuries’ racing and now some new racers are catching up with it, such as China, India, East Europe… Participants are getting older and older meanwhile, so they must need mass of supplies from the government without much diligent working, anyway the life must go on, it got to find out a way to drive the people forward--- they can still enjoy the living in the sun with slight differences comparing before, after all they have plundered so much enough by their Colonialism as part of their belief system for the future generations, otherwise there wouldn’t be American civil war for independence. (All attempts to bolster up colonialism are bound to fail, histories have indicated it.)

England doesn’t have much industry left and now they have to face the great challenge of globalization to redefine the British identity. It will be too difficult to recovery themselves, because it’s impossible to make the falling sun rise again unless you are god.

2007年9月26日星期三

The service of Deusche Bank sucks.

Eventually I canceled my Deusche-Bank's account and applied a new one at Citi-Bank. I really could take a deep breath now to get rid of the nightmare-service from Deusche Bank. When I was coming to Germany at the beginning, I was unable to get enough German phrases to express myself, so I got to swallow a lot of terrible feelings when I was served at the branch of Deutsche Bank. The most disgusting one I can never forget is about the picking some money at a branch at Alexander Platz. A female stuff changed her attitude completely after she had finished serving a German just in front of me, I could imagine that I was looking like shit in that situation, German language problem as well as the feeling of a stranger make me so uncomfortable, I really need about 2000 Euro for my language school (Goethe Institute), so I said a little bit lower and then I got a response that I never expected, “Haben Sie so viel Geld?”(Means Have you got so much money?), what a fucking answer! If I didn’t have enough money, I wouldn’t have come here! Even I had not got much money in my account, she could just tell me that peacefully. It was hard to believe that she was asking with a strange voice, it seemed that I came from the poorest place all over the world. I think I only got a suggestion for her, she should be fired and take a trip overseas to see how greatly the current world has been changed. Among all my banking experiences, this was really the fucking “best”!


I’m wondering that even I was the poorest man in China and want to pick some money from Bank; I guess nobody would think out that stupid question, never!

2007年9月19日星期三

I really wasn't aware of that big differences!

I wrote this article really too late until I’ve discovered the huge differences between American and European (especially west European). This illustration, that there seem slight differences between USA and Europe, was not only owned by me but also by a large number of Chinese students who are growing up in mainland china and then go for study abroad. It is probably due to the 300 years’ industrialization of western countries when the middle empire (China) closed the door to the outside communication, thus all the people in china have been strongly impressed by the highly developed modernization over centuries and along with the school education as well as inheritance of social value, the old generations get even much more respect for the westerns than the young generation while a lot of parents who were born in early or middle period 20h century are eager to save money to send their children abroad for studying, however, the young generations who have more experiences of intercultural communications and more self-confidences due to the economical emerging than their predecessors, therefore the more foreign friends they make, the more differences they are feeling.

Big differences between American and European (perhaps more changing in the future, who knows?!):

1. Most of American guys are much easier to be friends than the European

2. Americans are normally very self-confidence, but the European not.

3. Americans like judging foreign people by real abilities, and the European seem to love appearance and superficiality much more for the foreigners.

4. Some Americans really love cooking correctly (real shopping, preparation and cuisine) although there are a lot of instant food (McDonald, Pizza Hut, KFC…) in USA, but almost no body in Europe do that(perhaps only in the countryside).

5. The character of American life-style can be described with “Passion” and “Shift”. “Shiftless” and “non-self-examination” might be proper for the European.

6. The most of Americans are very active and curious to try something new. “Yeah, why not?” is the typical way to express that. For the European, “Hmm…err…, na…, okay ” can be heard very often.

7. The Americans love going outside no matter where, but the European love staying in house and enjoy their so called “comfortable Living”.

8. American love exploring, but the European love safety more.

9. The American young guys are more independent than the young European.

10. Young Americans love various entertainments, but the young European seems only like smoking and drinking alcohol.

11. The Americans have much stronger family responsibilities than the European.

12. Americans are quite modest, but the European love boasting, especially the young guys.

Okay, that is all I’ve found, some features might come originally from the foreign culture.