Expo parties

Expo parties are lame, but they are good nonetheless, people are good-looking there, there is techno, and the alcohol is plentiful and cheap . Everyone is the son or daughter of important people in non-important countries, this makes me fell lucky to be Canadian, because I am not so important, but I get judged on my skills.

Me, my girlfriend and her parents were eating with a friend of my girlfriends in a suburb of Shanghai. He just graduated as a doctorate student from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. We ate spicy dishes, but he spent the entire meal talking about his career prospects, and he could not drink very much - probably good for an engineering guy. Basically, apparently people discriminate according to where you studied, it is the best if you studied abroad, second if you studied under someone who studied abroad, and worst if you just stayed in China. I felt horrible because it should just matter what is the quality of your work, especially for doctorate graduate, but my opinion is worthless out in the bayous of Pudong here.

I understand people in China who cut the lines and try to cheat to get ahead. There are just not so much opportunities, and a lot of the people who are ahead in life have cheated to get where they are. But people just get punched in the head for nothing. I saw so many people spend so much time and energy today to skip a thirty minute line to go into a stupid side show entertainment thing that is the Canadian pavilion. If you just spent half the time on productive behaviour in Canada, you would get such a larger result. Yet, people in China are often stuck working crap job as waiters, security, maids etc... Who gets to do a influential and important job? 1% of the population?     

 

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