Wenzhou people are admirable, but ...



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送交者: gordon 于 2005-5-28, 15:47:53:

回答: skipper3说的话基本可以当做反话听,比如,农民. 由 bluesea 于 2005-5-28, 12:16:12:

Now it's beginning to be popluar to refer to Wenzhou people as Jews in China. I myself admire Wenzhou people most, admiring their striking out with no apparent qualifications (even without knowing the language where they are going). In this sense, they are so admirable and we all need to learn from them.

But businessmen are presumably only a minority rather than majority even in Wenzhou. One can never expect all the people to be businessmen. Most wenzhou people benefit from the trickle-down effect, just as peasants in Shanghai, Suzhou benefit from their thir land being bought as a result of increasingly export-oriented economic development.

Then, China is already a world factory with only the eastern coast areas becoming manufacturing bases. So inevitably, there is greater gap and less or no trickle-down effects in inland areas. For those people to better off, they have to strive against the chains unfairly tied to them, such as tax or levies(various kinds), education payments for their children, immigration limitations, etc.

I am quite pessimistic about the fate of peasants in China. Obviously urban citizens are better off, but suppose you get rid of the welfare(howere incomplete it is) from urban citizens, i suspect there will be revolution. But peasants have never had any welfare benefits,wehther unemployment or medical.

It's just too convenient and cheap to say people should reply more on themselves. And it's a shame people in better conditions ask peasants to rely on themelves. In any developed country, there is various degrees of welfare for the least disadvantaged people.



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