Everybody who works in China is Chinese. These Chinese workers are part of an ongoing observation I’ve made in my two weeks here. The cab drivers are Chinese. The people who operate the convenience stores are Chinese. The housekeepers are Chinese. Chefs in Chinese restaurants are Chinese; even the busboys are Chinese. As an American this perplexes me. Where are the different ethnicities from poorer socioeconomic backgrounds? Now that the Chinese basically own America why are the Chinese still doing their own work? See that’s how you know America has made it, we don’t do any of our own work. Americans are too important to engage in remedial tasks like cooking and cleaning. The day-to-day operations are so mundane we are better off outsourcing within the country. Long term this turned out to be an intelligent maneuver because Americans developed a new set of skills, selling invisible products and counting invisible money. So my advice to the newly crowned Chinese superpower is sit back, relax and let Africa clean up your mess.
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