Dany Magid I have met a chineese friend named Haining Zhong. While he was introducing himself to me i realized that, even though we both live in a free country, his freedom is much stronger than mine. The principal reason for this major difference between us, is the addiction to the technology advances. The previous generation in Brazil entertained themselves with various kind of entertainment.
People used to play soccer on the streets, they used to swim on the river, to ride bikes and so on. This time is gone. Nowday’s in my neighborhood a child grows up in front of the screen, either a T. v. or a computer, and that is his communication to the world.
If one wants to talk to a friend, he does not go to his house or call him, but rather write an e-mail. Meetings in the neighborhood are no longer made in public parks, but rather in chat rooms. The relationship the youth is building between each other is not any more a true friendship based on experiences they live together, but is a fake one based on images and impressions. However, as Haining was telling me, people in China try to achive a goal in life through their physical energy.
For instance, as he walks down the street he may be hit by a basketball “escaping” from the nice boys of the neighborhood. In addition to this, in China people appreciate the little things of life, like a sun shine day, or the trees the people pass by on their way to work, or even the fact they are alive and so on. To be a child in China mean to have no limits, to live in a world of fantasy and illusion where everything is possible and one could last forever. For example a bycicle taht today is a race car, tomorrow would be a worrior’s horse. The backyard that in the morning was a jungle, would be the Sahara Desert at night. One does not have fronte irs in his country.
The Essay on Lived In China Mother Life Movie
In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, it tells of four Chinese women drawn together in San Francisco to play mah jong, and tell stories of the past. These four women and their families all lived in Chinatown and belong to the First Chinese Baptist Church. They were not necessarily religious, but found they could improve their home China. This is how the woo's, the Hsu's, the Jong's and the ...
In contrast, my childhood was limited by its lack of imagination, its inability to expand horizons, or its incapacity to dream. The bike that i ridden, would exactly the same of tomorrows. My backyard will be the same piece of land on the back of the house, every single day. All my life was based on a boring routine that one can not stand, therefore the real freedom in Brazil is a very difficult task to achive.
In conclusion if I would start to regress a little bit on time and worship on the back rounds, the old ethnicities and cultures, if I would appreciate the life like my friend, I may realize that my freedom is just like his freedom.
