Tartarystan
07-08-2007, 08:47
Abuse of the lower class has become a national pastime and sport of Communist China.
(Note, I'm too lazy to type out Mainland China, Communist China, the People's Republic of China, or etc, so just assume whenever I say China, I'm referring to the People's Republic of China, not the other one, the Republic of China.)
Worker's rights simply do not exist in China. Trade unions are effectively banned, employers have no regulations or restrictions. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers die every year just from industrial accidents, a rapidly rising number that is rising yearly. China is responsible for over 80% of workplace deaths in the world. I'm not sure how America ranks on that, but considering the fact that we can usually sue for employer negligence in America and earn lots of money, I can assume it's much much much smaller.
The worst part is, Altruism is not considered a positive trait in China by many. Many of the rich urbanites loathe helping the poorer urbanites and rural residents at all, classifying most as subhuman. Chinese will rush to work at American businesses that pay them six dollars a day for twelve hours of work simply because those conditions are so much much much much better than almost all jobs a Chinese citizen can get. American and other Western companies that put Chinese in sweatshop conditions are doing them a FAVOR. There is a reason Chinese will line up to try to get these jobs. It is because jobs from domestic companies are so poor, these jobs look like paradise. Not to mention the chances of violently dying is usually less.
The poor and rich divide is incredible in China. Most Chinese live in poverty that most westerners can't even imagine. No, the government doesn't like to show the hordes of the poor in China who are worked to death. For one, their legitimacy as a "People's Republic" would hit zero. They only show the rich urbanites who live in the rich cities like Shanghai. Huge shantytowns ring every major Chinese city, literally breeding grounds for misery. Do they ever show it off? No, they only show off the dazzling skyscrapers of the richest in China.
China is a revolutionary Marxist wet dream. It is truly a place where class conflict could occur. Of course, the concept of class conflict is completely illegitimate in the U.S.A. and many other Western countries for a few reasons. In America, if we're raking in hordes of cash, we consider ourselves upper-middle class. If we're struggling, we consider ourselves lower-middle class. Class distinction isn't very large in America, which helps explain how Socialism never erupted as violently as it did in other countries. Class isn't the major divider. We have other dividers *cough* race *cough*.
But enough about that. Class distinctions are paramount in China. In China, someone from a different class might be from a different country, or hell, according to some, literally a different species from you, as often many upper-class Chinese do not view lower-class Chinese as human beings. The Chinese upper class expresses a callous and unprecedented disregard of humanity. Horrifying, but understandable when you realize how altruism is simultaneously seen as shameful and disgusting. Some accuse the Western upper class of doing this, but there's absolutely no comparison at all. Social inequality has practically ascended to a greater level of existence as it has in China than in the West (obviously bad for China).
Class conflict is horrifying in China. The Tienanmen Square protests of 1989 literally doomed themselves when the rich Urbanites refused to associate with the poorer Urbanites and completely rejected any rural inhabitants, mostly because many rich Urbanites believed that they should be the only ones that should be allowed to participate in a "democracy" (though that would really make it an oligarchy).
The Chinese worker is not only seen by the Chinese government and Chinese corporations as disposable and expendable resources, they are also viewed that way by many upper-class Chinese! This kind of mindset is effectively unprecedented in the West and absolutely shameful. The greed and inhumanity in China is horrifying.
China's class divide is frankly shameful. As it stands, with all of the regional divides, linguistic divide, cultural divide, and most glaringly, class divide, the concept of China as a nationstate is really questionable. China's blatant mistreatment and abuse of everyone else not high in society is shameful and disgusting.
(Note, I'm too lazy to type out Mainland China, Communist China, the People's Republic of China, or etc, so just assume whenever I say China, I'm referring to the People's Republic of China, not the other one, the Republic of China.)
Worker's rights simply do not exist in China. Trade unions are effectively banned, employers have no regulations or restrictions. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers die every year just from industrial accidents, a rapidly rising number that is rising yearly. China is responsible for over 80% of workplace deaths in the world. I'm not sure how America ranks on that, but considering the fact that we can usually sue for employer negligence in America and earn lots of money, I can assume it's much much much smaller.
The worst part is, Altruism is not considered a positive trait in China by many. Many of the rich urbanites loathe helping the poorer urbanites and rural residents at all, classifying most as subhuman. Chinese will rush to work at American businesses that pay them six dollars a day for twelve hours of work simply because those conditions are so much much much much better than almost all jobs a Chinese citizen can get. American and other Western companies that put Chinese in sweatshop conditions are doing them a FAVOR. There is a reason Chinese will line up to try to get these jobs. It is because jobs from domestic companies are so poor, these jobs look like paradise. Not to mention the chances of violently dying is usually less.
The poor and rich divide is incredible in China. Most Chinese live in poverty that most westerners can't even imagine. No, the government doesn't like to show the hordes of the poor in China who are worked to death. For one, their legitimacy as a "People's Republic" would hit zero. They only show the rich urbanites who live in the rich cities like Shanghai. Huge shantytowns ring every major Chinese city, literally breeding grounds for misery. Do they ever show it off? No, they only show off the dazzling skyscrapers of the richest in China.
China is a revolutionary Marxist wet dream. It is truly a place where class conflict could occur. Of course, the concept of class conflict is completely illegitimate in the U.S.A. and many other Western countries for a few reasons. In America, if we're raking in hordes of cash, we consider ourselves upper-middle class. If we're struggling, we consider ourselves lower-middle class. Class distinction isn't very large in America, which helps explain how Socialism never erupted as violently as it did in other countries. Class isn't the major divider. We have other dividers *cough* race *cough*.
But enough about that. Class distinctions are paramount in China. In China, someone from a different class might be from a different country, or hell, according to some, literally a different species from you, as often many upper-class Chinese do not view lower-class Chinese as human beings. The Chinese upper class expresses a callous and unprecedented disregard of humanity. Horrifying, but understandable when you realize how altruism is simultaneously seen as shameful and disgusting. Some accuse the Western upper class of doing this, but there's absolutely no comparison at all. Social inequality has practically ascended to a greater level of existence as it has in China than in the West (obviously bad for China).
Class conflict is horrifying in China. The Tienanmen Square protests of 1989 literally doomed themselves when the rich Urbanites refused to associate with the poorer Urbanites and completely rejected any rural inhabitants, mostly because many rich Urbanites believed that they should be the only ones that should be allowed to participate in a "democracy" (though that would really make it an oligarchy).
The Chinese worker is not only seen by the Chinese government and Chinese corporations as disposable and expendable resources, they are also viewed that way by many upper-class Chinese! This kind of mindset is effectively unprecedented in the West and absolutely shameful. The greed and inhumanity in China is horrifying.
China's class divide is frankly shameful. As it stands, with all of the regional divides, linguistic divide, cultural divide, and most glaringly, class divide, the concept of China as a nationstate is really questionable. China's blatant mistreatment and abuse of everyone else not high in society is shameful and disgusting.