June 1st, National Children's day.

Today is Chinese national Children's day. Due to the earthquake...all the celebration had a little sad tone mixed in.



I am not consider as a "children" any more...so I don't really celebrate this day. But today, I would like to talk about Chinese children...the current generation. In Chinese, my generation is called "After 80's" because we were born after 1980. This generation is the first generation after the 1979 Deng xiao Ping's open door policy (for those of you who don't know...you can wikipedia it...), and also we are the first generation of "one child one family" policy. Generally speaking, older generation call us "after 80s", they think we are like flowers in the green house, we couldn't handle stressful situation, and majority of our generation are still living with parents...living off parents... Because of the one child policy, both parents in the family try to satisfy their only child every wish that she/he ever comes up with. I think my peers are better than the "after 90's"generation. How come? after 90s, the living condition got much better, and children's wish are much easier to become true. "after 80s" are just now start entering the working forces, many older people complains about us, about how difficult to work with us. I think every story has two side, I really don't think I am a typical "after 80s" generation. Thanks to the corps, I lived in a big family with over 10 brothers and sisters (my buddies). I was at the Gym last week, and the staff asked me if I used to be an athelet...I guess because my body build (bigger than the general Chinese girls), if it wasn't the corps...I probably can never run this long ...



Anyway~ I still have to talk about the earthquake, because news here are still talking about it. We saw the PLA sending troops in to rescue, major component of the PLA army are composed with "after 80s" generation. They were not afraid, they saved thousands of lives alone with other "after 80s" volunteers. the "after 90s" generation are still in school, but they all donated...little kids brought their piggy bank to the red cross, children asked their parents to donate twice or more...from this incident, people don't look down to "after 80s" and "after 90's " generations any more...one thing I had to point out though...donation should be a volunteering action, from what I heard, it is more like peer pressure now...Yao Ming donated twice because people were complaining that the first he donated to little (half million chinese RMB, over 70,000 USD). When I was hanging out with my friends, one of the questions to ask everyone is "how much did you donate?" If the companies did not donate enough, public would complain...there used to be a rumor that KFC and McDonald's did not donate a single penny, and the government official had to hold a press conference to clearify that they did donate, over a million...I personally think that donation should be a volunteer action, but peer pressure in China is unavoidable...sigh...



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I am going to Korea from 6/5-6/9, then 6/10-6/25 will be in Guiyang. Check back again after 6/14...I should be able to post more pic from Korea...lots of food...and a brand new place. Stay in touch!!!



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