Go to India on business.
On a business trip, I went to India for five days with colleagues from foreign companies and partners of China joint venture partners, and I was deeply impressed by India. To be fair, I am not used to India without hurting the feelings of my brothers in the third world. In the words I blurted out without thinking, India is really fucking bad. Originally, I was afraid of hurting the feelings of my class brothers, and I didn't want to write it to hurt my loved ones, but my enemies would be quick. Later all my friends wanted to hear it. After saying it several times, I really felt it was too much trouble, so I simply took the trouble to write it out so as not to talk about it later.
For the sake of justice, I promise that I will never add any literary embellishment to what I see, so as not to be accused of being unfair, but because of my limited perspective, it is inevitable to be biased. By the way, just saying what I know is one of the goals I set for myself. Because bragging, jumping to conclusions and saying people behind my back are my weaknesses, I want to overcome this problem.
Sunday
It is not easy to arrange a trip to India. I don't know if it is because of the war with them that China has no direct flights to India, and it has to pass through Malaysia, Singapore and other countries. It takes more than 12 hours to get there.
At Kuala Lumpur airport, many Indians began to smell sour taste (I thought it was sweat, but later I learned that there was another reason, and I will talk about it later). There is no concept of queuing for ticket exchange. I stood at the back of the line, and every Indian walked directly in front of me, or directly next to the ticket checker. However, this is not surprising. My compatriots do not have this quality, and they still account for the vast majority of the population. We are used to it.
At 3 o'clock in the middle of the night, I got off the plane and came to the hall. Hundreds of people lined up to go through the customs. Probably because it is too late, only two counters have staff, but only three counters. The long queue is winding and sour. Bats are flying overhead, and everyone is sleepy. The foreigner in the same trade leaned close to me and whispered, "I miss China already."
My foreign colleagues who have been to India before going out told me to be mentally prepared. The airport in Matlas will be different from any airport I have ever seen. The plane will almost land directly on the road, and then there will be more than 1000 black faces dangling outside. I don't think it's that scary. At least we can't take bad cops as a negative factor. That's the idea of western developed countries. We are all brothers.
Looking out of the window on the way to the hotel, I can't see anything. In the next few days, it turned out that I couldn't even see during the day because there was nothing at all. Many cows are sleeping on the road. I think everyone knows that cows are gods in India and cannot be killed. There are many wild dogs, their eyes are red, as if they were crazy, which is quite scary.
I went to Chennai, and the Chinese transliteration is not very good. Originally called Madras-Matlas, it is the fourth largest city in India, not far from the sea. We stayed in one of the two most expensive hotels in that city, and it was $65,438+000 per night, plus $40 plus some taxes. The experience in the next few days proved that foreigners were completely slaughtered here. Indians have no psychological burden when they see foreigners, so you are richer than us. For example, I booked a room in China for more than 140 dollars a night, and I said, "All the money is included, 100 dollars". When we arrived here, the hotel said that "all the money is counted", which means that there is no tax, and the tax is collected by the state. Very cunning, isn't it?
Hotel rooms are antique in India, with lots of marble and thick carpets. But the bright silver faucet was unscrewed, and the tap water was light yellow with some sand. It rained the next afternoon and the water was dark yellow at night. There is bottled water beside the bed. At the suggestion of my colleagues, I also brush my teeth with bottled water. The basic principle is not to import any tap water because India, or at least the city, has no water supply and drainage system.
Monday
Get up early, go out by car, drive an hour to the company's factory, and get off work at the hotel at 5 o'clock. The itinerary for the next few days is basically the same.
As soon as I got out of the lobby, the hotel yard was full of broken cars. Britain's 1930s-style round-headed car was made by India's largest automobile company (of course, the company is state-owned). My British colleague was very happy to see these cars, saying that they reminded him of his childhood.
When the car walks down the street, the street view it sees can be said to be terrible. Urban infrastructure construction, such as roads, water supply and drainage, garbage discharge, etc. , seems to be the inheritance left by the British. They seem to have done nothing since the British left. The city center is very small, a few blocks, about the size of a small county in China. There are many bungalows and few buildings, and there are no buildings with more than five floors. There are all kinds of roofs in bungalows, and there are not a few grass roofs. This building is made of cement blocks. Only a few roads are cement roads or asphalt roads, and the remaining main roads are all dirt roads.
The wall is only shoulder-high and covered with campaign slogans and candidates' heads. Sewage and garbage are everywhere.
The road is full of people. At the station, the person 100 can stand until the middle of the road. It's basically a national costume. One third of the people don't wear shoes, and the other two thirds wear slippers with big toes.
There are trees on the roadside, but the sky is still blue, which is less polluted than big cities in China. But the exhaust on the road is very bad, and their cars are of poor quality. There are basically no imported cars. Their domestic cars, compared with them, Li Xia are all high-end cars. There are not many cars, but all the cars don't pay attention to traffic order at all. All the cars are scattered on the road, driving at will, regardless of the route or the left and right, and sometimes they get in. When overtaking, the two cars are generally opposite, and they don't turn to give way until the last second.
The situation outside the city is worse. Continuous bungalows, nearly half of which are grass roofs. There is a pile of rubbish on the roadside every 5 meters or so. After driving for an hour, there was rubbish on both sides all the time. When people walk on garbage, men turn around when they pee, and their backs to the road to solve the problem. When a woman urinates, she turns around, turns her face to the road and squats down to solve the problem. Some take a few steps and squat down to the wall.
Perhaps it is because of the lack of universal education. It seems that Indians have no concept of hygiene at all. For example, if there is a pool of rain on the road, most people will bypass it, so people here just step on it whether they are barefoot or wearing slippers.
There are cows, sheep and dogs on the road from time to time. The car should go around. As I said just now, cars are going in the opposite direction, depending on who has enough courage to hold on and who can occupy the driveway. People often cross the road, motorcycles lead people to cross the road, animals cross the road, there is no zebra crossing, you can go wherever you want.
On the roads in the suburbs, there are many large trucks, all of which are equipped with chip-controlled speakers with tones, and the sound is particularly loud. Think about it. There are various high notes like "535353 1", 6 123 16, 6 123 16 "in the ear. When the truck sped by, a wheel turned in front of you and stopped you. Then suddenly, not far in front of you, a wheel flew obliquely to the left, revealing the oncoming big truck in front of you. "The cross of Jesus! "The foreigner in the same car screamed. At the last second, the driver of our car was also a wheel, giving the big truck to the car behind.
Nervous, cold sweat.
I have to mention our driver. My brother came to pick us up in the morning. When we saw it, we were wearing shirts, ties, big shorts and barefoot. Seeing that we were all staring at him, I was a little embarrassed, so I got into the car again and put on my double-toed slippers. I wonder if he wears shoes when driving. We can't see him sitting in the front.
When we arrived at our factory, which was built according to the company's standards and standardized globally, it was like heaven compared with the outside. Go in and drink water quickly. Our factory has its own pure water station, which can make pure water.
But in this global standard factory, Indians still stubbornly maintain their national habits. Like clothes. The lady in the office is still wearing the national dress sari, wrapped like a pillow, sitting in front of the computer. I can't help laughing when I see it. It really feels antique.
In addition to the workshop must be dressed according to safety standards, the health, canteen and other employees in the factory are all ethnic costumes. Men crouched on the ground in rags like dirty sheets to weed; Women are sitting on the ground in saris to wash vegetables.
Dinner will be ready soon. Let's talk about Indian food.
As soon as I entered the canteen, my face smelled sour. Before coming to India, I heard that they only eat vegetables and basically don't eat meat. I thought it was a rumor, but they really don't eat meat. There are two curry vegetables, two soups, a lot of rice, two cakes, yogurt and pickles for lunch. Smelling the sour taste, I ordered a dish and tasted it suspiciously. The curry in the two curry dishes is as thick as porridge, and the dishes are all cooked sour. The two kinds of soup are thin, taste like seawater, smelly and salty; Yogurt is ok, but you must put a lot of sugar, otherwise it will be too sour; Just throw cakes, like salty biscuits. In fact, foreigners don't eat these meals at all, but only eat two cakes to satisfy their hunger.
I thought that we are all brothers and guests of the third world, and in order to exercise our adaptability, we boldly began to eat.
I didn't eat two bites, but I saw that Indians fished out vegetables and soup with their right hands, put them on rice, mixed them with their hands and picked them up to eat. That's disgusting. I know I was wrong, but I do feel unwell.
Colleagues in China are swearing and paying the bill.
It took me two days to know that the sour taste of Indians was eaten from these curry dishes. After eating for three days, the sweat turned sour in the sultry weather in India. In the words of my colleague, two weeks after he returned to America, he could still smell himself in the shower.
I dare not eat these foods. I ate a bunch of dry rice and was hungry at 3 pm. Can't blame Indian brothers for eating so much. There is no time when there is not enough meat.
Returning to the hotel after work, I experienced another road accident. It is ok to eat western food in the hotel at night. I want to go out for a walk after dinner, but I dare not go out when I walk to the door of the hotel. I'm not the kind of person who takes myself seriously. I travel abroad on business and wander around. But in this city, I really think it will be dangerous for me to go out at night, and I can't see anything worth taking risks outside. On the way back, I took a closer look. There are no English bookstores, bars and other entertainment places, no special market, only some small shops that meet people's basic survival needs. There is nothing to visit in the street, and there are terrible cars all over the street. Forget it.
Back to the hotel, I turned on the TV. Among the 40 stations, there are 27 or 8 stations with a man and a woman singing and dancing. They all sound the same and look almost the same. The man has curly hair and a moustache, while the woman has huge eyes and a fat waist, flirting and full of love. Bored to death, I have to sleep.
Tuesday
I went to work in the morning and watched the street view again, but I still didn't find anything interesting. There is no KFC, McDonald's or other foreign fast food. Ask colleagues and foreigners. They say that in India, you can only eat western food in hotels, but you can't eat a hamburger made by Indians. Even if they want to taste Indian food, they don't have the courage to eat something cooked in Indian water in a restaurant on the street, no matter how upscale the restaurant is.
In addition to looking for restaurants, I also specially looked for shops or advertisements related to computers, because the media always boasted about how awesome the Indian software industry is and how many software engineers there are. As a result, I didn't see anything related to calculators in the street, referring to shops, advertisements, signs and so on, nothing. I don't believe how many computer experts can be produced in such a place without computer foundation. I don't know if it is because India has been colonized by Britain for a long time, so western culture has more recognition of it and more computer interaction with it.
For example, the company I work for is an American company, and it doesn't know the national conditions of China yet. Once it wanted to do market research in China, because it didn't believe there were qualified market research companies in China, so it hired a European research company with more cooperation. Of course, European companies can't do research in China. China thinks that China is Asia. Asia, that's India. Subcontract the work to an Indian company. Indian companies believe that China is Hongkong. Subcontract the work to a Hong Kong company. Hong Kong people know China, and they subcontract their work to a famous market research company in Chinese mainland. So when I went to eavesdrop, I saw a bunch of messy people. Everyone earns money, but China people do the work. The final report was handed in by Europeans, and the content was made by China.
This example means that I don't believe how many computer talents can be produced in places like India where there is no universal education, low national strength and weak computer foundation. Only because they were colonized for a long time did the west know about them, and they could speak English, which left the world with the impression that India's computer industry was developed and there were many computer talents. They just know how to behave. At the same time, can't show, this is China's fatal flaw. As mentioned in the above example, Hong Kong people are also good at dealing with the West, because they have been colonized for a long time, and the West knows them better, popularizes their English and knows how to behave.
Back to the topic of street view, there is no fast food, no computer related, no department stores or supermarkets, no bars, dance halls, amusement parks and other entertainment places. Looks like we'll have to stay in a hotel at night. There are many temples on the road, Hindu, small and broken. Statues are all ceramic, and they all seem to look like noses, unlike Shiva with four arms and other gods with n arms as I thought. You can't go into the temple or take pictures.
Today, my barefoot brother in a shirt and tie and shorts took us on the road for the third time, and we were still scared to death. British colleagues working in Indian factories told us that last year, the company sent a group of Indian managers-level engineers to Britain for training and got international driver's licenses, and found that they had no concept of traffic lanes at all and wandered around the road casually. No wonder they haven't received this kind of education. In the test results, half of the people commented that "this person is not suitable for driving on the road", but these people drive every day in India!
It's time for lunch again As soon as they entered the canteen, they smelled a sour taste twice as strong as that of people, and China employees could not help being scolded by the state. Today, they decided to eat their own pickles instead of vegetables. I crustily skin of head again.
The whole one, exercise adaptability.
According to Indians themselves, they only eat vegetarian dishes because there are too many sects, such as Islam, Catholicism and Hinduism.
Jiaodu itself has dozens of factions, and each faction is forbidden to eat different things. So be a man in the factory.
all
The only thing you can eat is vegetables. But western colleagues say they seldom eat meat at home. Do you understand?
There are too many to draw conclusions.
In the evening, I went to a Korean restaurant. There is a modern car factory in India. Koreans opened a restaurant. It was delicious.
way
Positive.
When I asked for a car from the hotel to go to a Korean restaurant, I found something interesting. Indians nod rather than shake their heads. I
Said, "I want to rent a car at night." The Indian shook his head and wrote it down in his notebook. I thought he didn't understand and said, "Today is the day.
Rent a house at night
Get off, "he shook his head. I said, "6 o'clock." Still shook his head abominably. I asked, "Do you understand?
Really? "He?
Shook his head and said, "Of course." I realize that their habits are different from ours.
Call China after dinner, because the telecommunications bureau went on strike and couldn't get through. The call to China from here is $7 per minute.
Back to time
It doesn't work. The bath water turned dark yellow because of the rain, so I dare not wash it. Very uncomfortable. Can only sleep.
Wednesday
Everything is the same today. Grit your teeth and wait to return to China. China's fellow veteran comrades have all been soldiers and fought in wars.
Poor; poor
Having worked in a factory in a ravine, he also shook his head and said, "I am patient, but this place is really his."
Mashi
I can't answer that. In the future, anyone who dares to disobey my orders will be required to open an office in India. "
It's true, this place is dirty, it doesn't matter, it's not that I've never been to a dirty place; People are uncivilized, have a strange smell, and it doesn't matter.
Ministry, Africa is different; Poor, hopeless, then bear it, anyway, a few days have passed; But there is no phone.
(Stop! )
Work), without the internet, people feel buried. And this place has no water to drink, no water to use, nothing.
Eat this.
This is the most unbearable thing for China people. The ton of rice I ate that night made me hate this place even more.
Well, my colleague from China happily found a China restaurant in the hotel, which turned out to be a Sichuan restaurant.
land
Invite us to dinner. I went at 6 o'clock and found that the Chinese restaurant didn't open until 7: 30 (many Indian restaurants do this, I don't know if it's the same)
religion
Related). I waited until 7: 30, but when I walked in, I smelled curry and immediately told the waiter, "Set the tableware.
Complete washing
Clean, there is no curry in the cooking, absolutely not. "The waiter shook his head and agreed (looking at people shaking their heads.
always
Feel awkward).
Then he asked the waiter, "Is the chef from China?" Answer: "It's from Malaysia." Ask again: "Can you speak Chinese?"
Really? "answer
Say, "Only English." The in the mind suddenly cold half. Bring the menu, in English, which says: China Fried Meat,
Sichuan Province
Fried chicken, Sichuan fish, China vegetables, etc. I can't help but say to my deskmate: "This Chinese food is probably sweet. (Gump
Reading four
I had to order four dishes.
While waiting for the food, ask the waiter to bring several kinds of beer to taste, all of which are made in India and have no internationally famous brands. Open one
Drink,
None of them can get in. Think about it, too. Tap water can make the wine there taste better.
When the food came, it was finished. China's meat is cooked, oiled and thickened with soy sauce. What else does it go with
material
None; Sichuan chicken is cooked and oiled, then thickened with soy sauce, without adding other ingredients; Sichuan fish
be
Salted fish, cooked and oiled, thickened with soy sauce, without other ingredients; The most hateful thing is China vegetables.
Vegetables are cooked onions, oiled in a pot and thickened with soy sauce, without any other ingredients. When is the onion?
success
There are vegetables in China. All the dishes are boiled into slurry, which is convenient for manual bibimbap. "Just fucking curry." I
in the heart
Scold and compensate.
I was depressed after eating two bites. Let the waiter serve the meal and finish it quickly. I saw the waiter put a big plate in front of a person.
Son,
Take a bowl of rice and start to fill it on the plate-bibimbap again! I stopped and said to him, please bring one for everyone.
individual
Bowl. "The house is a bowl, round and small. Never mind what we do. Take this big plate back. "
The last waiter
Although the audience didn't understand why they used bowls instead of plates, they brought them to us. China's colleague has grown up.
one
Tone: "thank you so much, little boy, or you'll have to take a plate to eat."
rice. "
I didn't eat enough, so I called the waiter and told him that he could order these dishes at will.
as soon as...
You can't call them Chinese food.
"These are all rubbish." I said to him, "Now, please ask your Malay China chef to fry an egg for us.
Eat it. as long as
Stir-fry in oil, don't use the western way, don't fry one-sided, two-sided and fried eggs at all, just stir-fry in oil.
All right. "
"Well," he said politely, shaking his head, "do you want sunny-side up or sunny-side up?"
Thursday
On the last day, I chatted with my British colleagues and learned a little about Indian customs.
Until today, India still retains the caste system, namely Brahman, Khrushchev, sudra, Veda and Veda.
Don't touch it, just don't touch it. Dalits have no surnames. Their names are a series of terrible letters, preceded by
still
Add the first letter of their father's name to indicate his family. After some Da Park Jung Su people converted to Catholicism,
View from a height or a distance
Christian names such as Martin and Jeffrey are used as first names, and original names are used as surnames. So from the name.
along with
Look at the origin of Indians.
At present, more than 90% of parents in India arrange marriages, and more than 90% people think this is very good. They are usually
be
The boy's parents advertised their son and introduced the situation. The woman's parents read the newspaper to find a son-in-law, as appropriate.
woman
Write it and send it over. The boy's parents choose three letters to show their son, and the son can choose one of them.
also
You can choose all blind dates. After meeting the woman's relatives and talking to the girl, it is usually solved at one time.
parents
Things.
Unlike China, the bride price in India is prepared by the woman. Sometimes the woman gets married first because of family changes and is unable to pay.
appear
After paying the bride price, the man sometimes kills his wife. My colleague has been in India for two years, and he has seen six such wife killings in the newspaper.
Pieces.
Although killing a wife is a crime, it is generally carefully planned, and it is done by the man's relatives or something, plus public opinion is not.
reproach
Responsibility, so the general punishment is not very heavy.
Chatting with Indian employees, they know as little about China as we do about India, but they like watching it.
country
Kung fu movies, love Jackie Chan. They told me that not only women are on their foreheads, but also men and women in Dot mole and Hindus.
ask
Point, you can see his/her faction from the different patterns of the point. I have seen some people's forehead patterns look very similar.
same night
Beautiful.
Before talking about Indian women, people have an impression that Indian women are beautiful. Last year, Miss World was not printed.
degree
Yes But at least I don't think so. I am a person who likes to look around when walking. I haven't seen him there for several days.
reach
What an attractive beauty. Perhaps because of poverty and religion, people's clothes are limited. I don't
also
Absolutely. Indian-born Miss World, that is packaged, so hypocritical and pretentious! Foreigners don't see the fishy, we
Plural markers of pronouns and some living nouns
Still don't understand.
My colleague from the purchasing department visited the factory with his colleague from the purchasing department in India. On the way, my colleague from India found a restaurant and invited him to dinner.
rice.
Thinking of the water in India, he had to say that he had stomach trouble and escaped this robbery.
Finally left in the evening, got on the plane of Malaysia Airlines, and saw the fair skin and sweetness of the stewardess of China.
about
Laugh, they are not very skilled but pronounce pure Chinese, and then take a cup of Coca-Cola from them, feeling.
feel
It's like going to heaven