1973. Bobby Riggs. The infamous tennis match.
How about that!
I tried at tennis, but the game was too fast for me.
Luckily, at the game of life, according to Darwin’s observation, all species need to survive is the art of being the fittest, not fastest.
Creatures are made sometimes to stay still and change color (appearance) in face of life threatening situation.
Cultural dynamics change too. I remember seeing Nixon in Beijing, trying on a more-than-a-thousand- course meal.
Today’s meeting between Beijing and Washington somehow focuses on how to create jobs for Americans (Chinese consumer market – Sam’s choice of lemonade, peanut butter and jelly, and cereal ?)
Wait until the Tata’s cars are released in China. By then, Ford already exhausted its market share of the upper crust in China.
How about Mandarin as a Foreign Language (MFL)? I am not kidding!
There has been Wall Street English classes in China. I can see the oncoming two-way street around the bend.
When the Chinese tourists are here, you will see them “in your face”.
It happened to the waiters in Paris. It will happen again in Vegas, Disneyland, and New York — Houston.
They will arrive by the bus load, first in California. Chinatown is the natural springboard, and from there onto the suburbs of Alhambra-Monterey Park.
Chinese consumers will not be like their 80’s Japanese counterparts (who would buy anything from the outlets just like the Europeans two years ago due to favorable exchange rate). One thing for sure, they will go all day, trying to find “made in America” goods to lug home. There is none. All were made from their homeland, from the cap to the shoes, head to toe. Just do it! Shop until you drop! Need a foot massage? Welcome to California, now go home.
Actually, you are more than welcome to stay. California needs a stronger tax base. Go ahead and buy off all the I.O.U.’s.
They are certainly made in America. Somehow, the history of America West always ties with immigrants, from South and Central America, to South Asia and China/South East Asia. Just remember the old saying, you can break one chopstick, but it’s harder with a bunch of chopsticks. Maybe it’s the survival of the fittest and the most united.
The Amish, Mormons, Japanese-American, and Chinese-American learned this sub-cultural (stick together) lesson well. Now it’s Walmart shoppers’ turn.
Thang Nguyen 555 