It was sobering to alight from my plane at JFK, only to hear Ebonics and Spanish-speaking, bad-mannered, ill-kempt, TSA personnel. It was a jarring reminder to me that I have returned from a clean, polished, scrubbed country, full of polite citizens eager to learn English and pursue their capitalist dreams to acquire wealth and western material possessions, to a country tottering on the precipice of Socialism, ready to abandon all the capitalist principles that had made her great, and overrun by inferior genetic specimens, who have neither the desire nor the ability to compete in the global economy of the 21st Century.
Set against this backdrop of my first-hand experience, repeated verbatim after almost every trip to China in recent times, I wonder if this trend will be reversed.
“It was refreshing to visit a country in which people make a strenuous effort to learn and speak English, to the extent that some short-sighted local politicians (quoted by the SCMP) were bemoaning the lack of attention to Classical Chinese language amidst the mad dash to learn English in urban Chinese schools in cities like Beijing and Shanghai. “
The interesting cultural data you provide here has little or nothing to do with economic health. You can go to Japan and have the same experience of cleanliness, with polite people and efficient trains. But consider where Japan is economically right now. They are not a vibrant and growing economy by any stretch of the imagination.
You mention Socialism in America but ignore the fact that the Chinese system is based on Communism, relaxed though it may be now. There are still lots of poor people outside the gleaming cities, living in lousy conditions. The Communist system cannot create a healthy and vibrant economy, by its very nature. The growth stats and other indicators are lots of smoke and mirrors.