| My China Fixation |
[25 May 2006|10:42am] |
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I am enthralled by China. Although it is the predictable behavior from someone who shops at Walmart in broad day light without hiding behind the anonymity of an impersonal hoodie, it has reached to a point where I am eagerly waiting for amendments in the Chinese National Law that'd permit dual citizenship.
To familiarize and naturalize myself with China and the Chinese, I eat at Chinese buffets and try to fashion my life according to the instructions in fortune cookies, smile at random strangers who look Chinese-enough, wear Old Navy t-shirts with Old Navy written in Chinese characters, fly China Airlines to India (it also helps if it's the only passenger flight that flies in to Anchorage from Asia) and finally I make sure more than 90% of all the stuff in my house is made in China(it's easy, continue shopping at the same store I've always been shopping.)Coincidentally, as if to keep me high on my 'China fix', my apartment is flanked on all sides by apartments rented out to Chinese pilots, who fly in fresh from China each day and who often make the mistake of entering my home(thinking it is theirs) – a live Chinese presence in my living room, what else can a China devotee ask for?
More heart-warming news to the China loving blogger in me - China is going to have 60 million bloggers by the end of this year and a hundred million by the end of 2007. That is like the entire population of Iran and Iraq blogging together, not that they'd be interested in such wasteful pursuits. American media speculates that if this blogging trend continues it might even bring about 'democracy-by-accident' in China.
Recently I read a book called China Inc: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World. A nail-biting read if you are interested in honing your clairvoyant / prophetic side in international affairs. Since "internalizing" passages from their favorite books is a fad among Indians in the US, I've internalized a few sentences from the book……
The book tells me that Chinese love their VWs and copy their Toyotas. VWs account for 3 out of every 10 cars in China. A Beijing court ruled against Toyota when the company brought suit against Greely, one of China's largest automobile manufacturers. Toyota complained that Greely used Toyota's logo on one of its cars and Toyota's name to sell it. The court ruled that China did not recognize Toyota logo – one of the best known corporate marks of the world! All your Toyota are belong to us. Buhahaha haha.
It also tells me that if you live in China there's still a chance that you can be J.K.Rowling. With the success of millions of pirated copies of J.K.Rowling's Harry Potter books, the Chinese counterfeiters have produced their own original volume of Potter stories and sold them under Rowling’s name
I can go on about China, a lot of which you might already know. I do not understand why I keep on writing such long uninteresting posts?! I don't read many blogs these days – it seems like gross injustice making other people squirm under the weight of my long monologues, but then your mouse is in your hands ;-P Scroll away.
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