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家园 【原创】一个老美看中国

其实这个原创很勉强。俺的一个美国朋友回中国去看他老婆去了,昨儿个从广州写了个Email给他的一堆朋友(俺也在list上,其它几乎都是老美)。俺看着有些话很有意思,翻译过来大伙看看。

他和他老婆(河北人,他去中国出差时认识的,大概是半年前结婚的,这次就是去陪她去使馆移民面试)去一个服装厂参观。这个厂子坐落在离石家庄一个小时路程的一个村子里。

关于服装厂的食堂,他的评价是“A#1”(棒极了)。据说厨子是从全国招来的。

他惊讶的发现村里的人好多啊,而且大多人家都有2,3个小孩儿。他评介说看来中国政府的一胎化政策只能管城市,管不了农村。在美国看到的报道估计是懒得离开城市的记者写的。是胡说八道(学了个词“hogwash”)。

The central government is able to enforce the one child law in the cities but does not care to admit they are having a problem doing so in the countryside. What we have heard on the news in the US must have been from reporters that did not want to be inconvenienced by leaving the cities. It's hogwash.

他看到工厂里好大,机器好多。工人们一周工作7天,每天干9个小时。工人们都挺开心,他们前两年还是农民呢。他们也放官方的长假,家里有事也能请假。

工厂里没有童工(18岁以下)。看到这儿,俺纳闷这家伙好奇心也忒大了。说一下这位的背景。他是美国犹太人,当过兵,喜欢走南闯北,是个工业流程的manager。人还好,就是有时候有点傲气,比如说大陆不敢打台湾,否则会被美国灭啥的他问了问陪同的工厂销售人员,那位承认其实工厂倒不是在乎守法,而是有6000个活,而有9000个成年人申请。其它不少工厂还是用童工的。

This factory followed the law and hired only workers eighteen and older but the salesman admitted it was more because they had a population of 9,000 18+ years old to chose from for 6,000 jobs rather than a sense of following the law. Many factories here hire younger workers.

在火车上他碰上了很多大学生。他评介说在美国的大学生幸运啊。中国的大学很难进,而且新生被强迫参加3个月的军训。学生们怕军训甚于考试。

For those of you in college or those that have students that are, like me, you are lucky. It's difficult for these students to get into school to begin with due to the competition but also they instigated a compulsory 90 day military training period for all freshmen. They were more worried about this than passing their classes!

广州的天气又热又潮,他6:30出去跑了一趟步就累跨了。这里的人5点就来公园了,而且年级越大来得越早。有人练功夫,有人滑旱冰,还有人练喊(哈哈,俺想了一下才明白,是调嗓子吧),还有一帮人在踢个小球(俺没猜出来是啥,他是知道足球的)。

BTW people are in the parks here at 5AM and it seems the older the person the earlier they get there. The exercises are of great variety including Kung Fu, Rollerblading, some sort of shouting exercise, kicking a small ball among many people (looks fun), etc.

--是不是挺有意思的

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