整体上除了肯定很拥挤之外,还有很窘迫的感觉
----I am so 100% with you on this one! As soon as I arrived in Asia, I am instantly reminded of my own size as the sizes of all the surrounding reference objects shrink. Restrooms in Tokyo airport are smaller, sink are much lower, hallways doors are not as generous in sizes as they are in North America. Everything shrinks in sizes including people! That's when I am reminded of my own height.
Having thought so I am going to ramble a bit, because I suddenly think of the relationship between people's sizes and how the place they live actually make them fat or slim.
I think that fact that America has large land with a relatively small population is proberbly one of the reasons why there are so many over-weighted people here in Mid and West America. (Of course there is also this life style where you drive everywhere, you even take elevator to go the gym). The enviroment in North America allows people not to feel they are big. While in East Coast cities for instance New York City, Boston, a fat people is punished whereever he goes without people telling him so. He is reminded of the fact that he is fat if living here:restaurant tables are smaller, you need walk every where(not a life style suitable for un-fit people), one takes subways (people stare at you in a wierd way if you are fat, you take up too muc space if you are fat, and that, makes you feel uneasy, naturally and eventually makes you want to loose wight), you carrys grocery walking home (fat people is forced to burn 250 calories from such an endeavour daily).
In Asia, generally people's life style and their environment are closer to the ones in east coast here than it is to the mid and west america.That plus our good genes, makes us slim people.
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"中国农村人连红药水都没人给搽,别说生病了".
太大人口,we have over supply of human labor, 这可能是一个natural selecting 的过程 until we reach an equaleium, a level of labor supply that is naturally reasonable for the economy.
我认为如果人为地设置许多政策-是govenrment 设法干涉经济, 不依从自由市场经济的principle. Naturally China will find a balance point, a point that most people can go see a reasonable doctor if he gets sick, but it takes time. The establishment of good legal frame work, moderate social welfare system takes time, and it's all for the purpose of encouraging free competition, free market economy, not the opposite. I oppose big government, bug spending. Government shall have least interference in the market economy (ideally).
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longzhong: 我ye来美国5年半na! 喜huan 您的about中国未来的乐观看法, 我基本上同意您的观点. The biggest advantage china has is the giagantic population, which, is also the source of many problems. It's a double sword. I always believe Chinese culture and its people have the strength and ability to observe, to learn, to reflect and inner eventually to choose the path that makes sense in long run.