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My colleague
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Every afternoon, our shop comes a nigerian who is our so-called colleague. He is about thirty. He is a typical African people who has entire black skin, big eyes, the natural curly eyelash, pug nose and huge shape.
He likes joking, listening to his african music, watching his african dancing, his african food and dancing. Besides,almost every african can speak Chinese word 'mafan', and it means trouble. They understand it clearly.
He is a middleman in fact, he helps our boss deliver goods and gains commission from the profits.
He has many friends here, and knows our market well, for he have been China about three years and he can understand and speak some Chinese, but not the whole, so sometimes, he is helpless and pitiful about what we said in Chinese. On the other hand, their african English is also awful to me. Moreover, sometimes, i totally have no ideas about what they said. Therefore, i need to listen to them more, and try my best to improve myself so than to make me understand and talk with them more freely.
In addition, yesterday, i had an arguement with him. And it seemed we didn't agree with each other. We talked about life and money. I quote a saying,that was, money isn't everything, but without money you can do nothing. He agreed this idea. But once i speaked it out, i regreted. Then i changed it and said, money isn't everything, but without moeny, you will have a problem in doing somthing. Then i didn't know how we came to differences. He said in Chinese '没有钱，没有爱’。How strange he was. And when i heard about that, i was very angry. I didn't know why, i just couldn't accept this thoughts. He asked i came here for what, it was money that i could buy my food and clothes. Money could buy everything!!! Terrible ideas, i thought. He said, he loves money very much. Jesus, i hate this mammonist.
Gengrally speaking, money do can help us live a comfortable life, but we are not just live for money.We should be our money's owner, but not slave. Different people has different opinions, when can i find a person who can hold similar thoughts with me......and when can i find another myself......
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Post comment Comment (4 replies)
- Reply liuli
- haha...your colleague are so interesting,he argue with you,maybe because of he can't understand the concept of money so thorough,after all,he is a foreigner,their viewpoint seems not so coincident with us,besides different people have different point about it,you two are right.
- Reply loly90
- liuli: haha...your colleague are so interesting,he argue with you,maybe because of he can't understand the concept of money so thorough,after all,he is a foYes, maybe, different people has different opinion about the same idea, especially he is a nigerian, he did come China to earn money
- Reply Richardren
- cross cultrual exchange can be quite frustrating sometimes, but people with different background meet each other is an opportunity for exchange of view to be cherished, mutual respect is vital in dealing with people from different culture, prejudice and predefined thinking would almost always lead to disater in cross cultural encounter.
- Reply loly90
- Richardren: cross cultrual exchange can be quite frustrating sometimes, but people with different background meet each other is an opportunity for exchange of vieThank you very much, i will keep your words in my mind, and yes, it indeed important to respect people from different background with no prejudice
