Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Can The Chinese Succeed At An Industrial Revolution?

I'm not so certain about the success of a nation or country that has failed so many times.  I'm still wondering if I am in a dream for it was in a reality world of mine when I knew I was not dreaming and there I was at work close to retirement as a postal worker apologizing to my coworker for being born Chinese!  They knew what I was talking about my fellow coworkers and they were so sympathetic toward my plight of racial inequity as seen in particular racial groups.  It just cannot be ignored  although I know masses of categories of people who know so little about the American Civil War the war which had the largest casualties in all of the American wars.  For me it was mandatory to be in school and study the offered course in the Oakland public school system and I did to the best of my ability.  I was so honored having been seated at a community college next to a neighbor of mine where I grew up in Oakland his name being Robert Pon a  person of color like me of Chinese ethnicity because he was one of the few Chinese that could get a 4.0 grade point average at Oakland Technical High School way back in the 1960's and to me this was not a disgrace.  He explained to me at the time he had taken economics at the University of Berkeley which gave him a leg up on the economics class he was taking with me at the local community college in Oakland.  At that particular class of economic I knew him as many of my classmates did that he was acing out in that class too or in other words he was getting a top grade in our class.  He had a track record of getting top grades in school and he came from the same neighborhood as I did on the very same street.  I  struggled through that class in economics nevertheless which was a transferable class to the University of California, Berkeley.  Through grades in high school and a local community college I was admitted to the University of Berkeley at various times through grades rather than through the standardized testing such as the SAT.  Bill Gates aced out on the SAT as a vast number of us know.  If we all concentrated on setting our goals as being as successful as Bill Gates perhaps I think this world would be in utter turmoil.  It is not going to happen.  If I believed it to be true I would be delusional and I know I can feel in a good mood when I believe in the impossible.  Okay let me get to the point.  I'm reading into the mainstream of the reporting of the news not just by the professional journalist on radio and television with whom I have interacted live on the air with as an anonymous talk show caller but I am also reading into the reactions of the common person on the street like myself.  Top professional news journalists like Ronn Owens who is a star on KGO radio 810 discusses the news originally a local San Francisco Bay Area radio station who is known very well here in my region or area is listened more to here than Russ Limbaugh the most listened to radio talk show host.  The question is am I being delusional in believing that the country of China could be on the road to another dynasty even if it means to world importance?  Don't tell me the San Francisco Forty Niners never became a dynasty as a football team because we have many witnesses who saw glory and victory and San Francisco did not do it this year but looked like they were on the road again toward gaining another dynasty.  The question is will such champions repeat and do it again?  China has suffered too many failures and will never see another dynasty again.  I love it sometimes when I wrong.  I think China if it were to have a mind of intelligence it would want a world to benefit and not just one country a dominant power structure but everyone.

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