When I browsed through some Chinese websites this week for inspiration for a new blog entry, I found some really interesting pictures. I thought it would be fun to share those with you guys. Well, they are exaggerating a bit but they are funny and reflects, to some extent, the Chinese society today.
If you wake up early in the morning and go on a walk in the streets you will find a lot of workers cleaning the streets with big brooms, particularly in smaller cities. Well as technology goes forward, the worker are modernizing the way they clean the streets, sometimes with street sweepers, and sometimes with some homemade technology…
Breakfast is rather important to make you feel better the whole day. When it comes to Chinese breakfast you have large variety of things to choose from. Baozi(包子) and Mantou(馒头) are two of them, which are steamed. Well most chinese people in big cities buy their breakfast on the way to work. Demand is huge, and supply has to catch up.
So after the breakfast you take the subway to your work, at the same time as all the students are taking the subway to school. The Chinese students study so much harder. They study so hard that the following can happen.
China, with its 1,3 billion people is not really a place to be medieval. In order to find a job and be seen you have to be excel at things you do and be different from others. The concurrence is really high, and cruel. So it’s really about being special and being able to stick out.
Chinese students live on the campus when they study in universities or colleges. They have to do the laundries themselves, but more than often there aren’t any tumble driers available on the campus so the clothes have to be dried out naturally. But if there are 4 students in the same room, there is hardly room for it, is there?
Like Swedish students, Chinese students date a lot when they study in universities. In some schools, particularly technical schools, there are usually a lot more boys than girls. Actually this problem is more general, the total man:woman ratio in China is 117:100. This is a serious problem, indeed.
So now, after a day of hard studies or work, you are on your way home. The Chinese rush-hour traffic is rather grueling. imagine yourself that half of city’s population are moving by public transportation, by bike or by car, simultaneously, as it is the case with Beijing. There is traffic jam, and accidents do happen. But one thing you don’t want to do is to hit the police maintaining the traffic. Things can get ugly.
Actually I would say that Chinese are the most environment-friendly people in the world. Just look at the huge amount of people that cycle to school or work to prove my point. And even bikes can be homemade, with some environment-friendly thoughs…
Ok, once again that the pictures are exaggerating a bit. I hope that you learned something about China and are now in a really happy mood:)
