Uncle Len and China
Hi Rach:
This is all so interesting. Thanks for taking the time to give us details of your trip. I have a China experience coming up. In 2 weeks a visiting Chinese delegation will be in San Francisco. They are visiting the U.S. looking for ideas to improve their Juvenile Justice system (one of three main goals of the most recent 5 year plan). I get to speak to them for 2 hours!! I have a powerpoint presentation that they are translating into Chinese now. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Any talk of Obama vs McCain over there? Do they know about the election? Do they care who wins? The news now is good. Obama is pulling ahead, but dirty tricks are ahead and in 4 weeks anything can happen. All fingers are crossed.
Love,
Len
As I mentioned before there is very little international news here in the People’s Republic. So it’s harder for people to get any information and when they do it’s filtered by the governemnt. That being said most people are not aware of the candidates and if they have heard of them, they know them as: “the black man, the old man, and the women”. This I have heard several times. Several people have said they really don’t care what happens, they hope the person with the best policy’s regarding China wins. So no people here don’t care, and even if they did-it’s hard for them to get straight up information on the candidates without a little propoganda thrown in there. The college kids are the ones that know the most.
xxoo
P.S. good luck on your presentation Len, I hope they translate your lecture accurately. Make sure you don’t mention the Cultural Revolution, Mao, or the Party in any negative light…I’ve already been in a little trouble for that:)