Observations from China
I came back from China two weeks ago and while I was there I made an
observation. Everything is in English. Literally, you walk into a
store and all the food has English labels. Weird? Yeah. I was
expecting the opposite or no English at all. Why is this? I have no
idea. However, the recent history might have a hand. In the past 2
years, the biggest world events have happened in china: the olympics
and now the shanghai world expo. All of these events have large
numbers of American spectators. Because everyone tries to be
liked/like Americans, English is used. We Americans would never do
something like that for the Chinese.
observation. Everything is in English. Literally, you walk into a
store and all the food has English labels. Weird? Yeah. I was
expecting the opposite or no English at all. Why is this? I have no
idea. However, the recent history might have a hand. In the past 2
years, the biggest world events have happened in china: the olympics
and now the shanghai world expo. All of these events have large
numbers of American spectators. Because everyone tries to be
liked/like Americans, English is used. We Americans would never do
something like that for the Chinese.
