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Americans also have the luxury to think for themselves [though few of them actually do], rather than accepting the values handed to them by advertisements and state-run media, i.e., unabated greed and desire for modern goods. I’ve spent quite a bit of time at factories in southern China for work, and conditions aren’t as bad as protesters imagine, I’ll agree. They even have nice recreation facilities and motel-like accomodations at some. But please, do tell me why you think it makes sense for a farmer to stop producing food for his/her family, leave home and kids for 11 months out of the year to work for piddlings, and return to a broken home with nought but a few modern trinkets to show for it? Progress my arse. As much as China glorifies its worker-oriented tradition and social engineering, they’ve got a stinking mess of a dysfunctional society outside the gleaming walls of its corporate towers and mega-malls. The greatest asset of Chinese culture is its strong family ethic, and this is quickly dissolving. Only time, greater press freedom, and a handful of altruistic people such as these ‘annoying protesters’ can possibly reveal these irreversible mistakes to the world before it is too late.

“When the writer asked whether continuously working like that for one or two months would be physically impossible to cope with, he impatiently rubbed his thumb and index finger together and said, “Who cares as long as the money is there!”

See the thing about Americans is that they are really a bit more lucky that the rest of the world and are very…well…spoiled. So spoiled that while the world is suffering and the term “survival of the fittest” applies, in America, something like obesity thirves.

Uneducated American’s start to complain and campaign about these factories THEY CALL “sweatshops” and say the conditions aren’t fitting. What they don’t realize is that when they complain and close these sweatshops down, it isn’t them who suffer, but the supposedly mal-treated employees in that “sweatshop”. Meanwhile, they lose their jobs that feed their family of five - all because some spoiled Amcerican group wants them to have the same luxury that that American can have. First of all, where do those American’s get the time to picket the streets. Shouldn’t they be working?

Oh..that’s right, they have the luxury to picket. Because they make so much money anyway in that job that probably should fire them for missing work to help a cause that only makes sense to a spoiled American.

You might think I’m being a bit harsh, but the truth is…this is the truth.

They should have a TV show: Switch an American family working comfortably with a Chinese family happy with the work they have.