One of my posts/contributions to fb on April 16 (T).
Crystal Huang Why, imposing so much "work ethics" on the defenseless sentient beings...?
Hold on, hold on, hold on - when the undocumented immigrants are unavailable...
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Crystal Huang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2N_uvnvGbI
REM - Everybody hurts (with lyrics)
Crystal Huang A picture might not just tell thousand words, it can also evoke million pieces of reminiscences . This donkeyfriend did bring forth several episodes of my early childhood memories.
When I was a child, Taiwan had been enduring economic hardship (before the 2nd wave of the globalization sweeping through the "Asian 4 dragons").There were working cattle carrying all sort of heavy duty materials, in particular, horribly overloaded with the big bags of cements, all sorts of bricks, and other machine tools... cumbersomely tramping through our alley.
The working men would whip and beat up the slow-down or exhausted oxen, and I (around 5 or 6 years old) always, knowing that I got no ways to argue or fight against these adults, the only thing I could do was to rush to the back side of the carts/transporting wagons (牛車), pushing, pushing, and pushing painstakingly and tirelessly with all the little strength I had at that time. Then I would receive some adults' and other kids' joking and laughing at me for such a "funny", or "cute" behavior !
Nowadays, though these "nostalgic" scenes have never appeared again in the post-Modern metropolitan Taipei, it transfers to other less fortunate countries and regions.
The global stratification is running wilder than ever....-----------
Note- As to the notion of globalization, seemingly it "controversially nurtured" the little dragons to get out of the stagnated "ponds". Surely, the price to pay was to sacrifice almost 2 generations' predicaments to exchange the edu-economic growth in Taiwan and other "little dragons".
I could remember that my eldest sister right out of elementary school (and my eldest brother could keep on his studies, though he needed to take on part of father's role to take care younger siblings) had to plunge into multinational corporate companies as a full time child laborer, working in the most prevalent labor-intense textile factories for 5 to 10 cents per hour (converted in U.S. dollars) wages until she got married (from 12 years old to 26) with an occupational - lung disease.
There was a well-known and acceptable saying, " Never born into an impoverished family as the first child, in particular- as a girl, because s/he had to obligatorily bear the burden to take on the role of a mother/father." As to me, I could not imagine if I were born into my elder sisters' condition!! Just a sheer of luck, my birth order gave me tremendous advantages compared to my elder sisters'. I was never required to drop out of school to work on full time child laborer job. I got the opportunities to continue my education with some part-time odd jobs and mentored my younger sister to work in the 3 - 5 cents per hour child-laboring factories, which was popular in the "developing" countries. Children, during those were the days, never being liabilities, but precious assets!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO4a9dIAOp4
Nana Mouskouri Amazing Grace