The United States is a country that I am quite familiar with.He spent four years in Texas, USA for four years in 1986, and spent nearly four months in Boston in 2009 for nearly four months to take a high -level business management course. This year, because my daughter was further studied in the United States, I had the opportunity to have the opportunity twice in a row two times successively.Visit the United States.
Although these two weeks have stayed in these two weeks, they traveled to the coastal cities and eastern United States by self -driving tours, and they felt quite deeply, especially in person to experience the proliferation of unemployed tourists, corruption of public security, marijuana legalization, Sino -US disputes and other issuesEssence
Some people say that the dispute between China and the United States began in 2018, and the coronary virus in 2019 exacerbated the differences between the two major powers.If this is only limited to the political circle, it is also possible.However, walking all over the United States, emotional emotions are actually quite common.In the United States, if you just communicate with the surrounding American friends, you can also feel the tolerance and enthusiasm of the past.However, the overall social atmosphere is a bit different, full of emotions with enemies, and it seems that all social problems and calamities are related to China.
Through the experience of living in the United States, I try to understand the origin of this bad mentality.As the so -called freezing three feet is not a day cold, the misunderstanding between China and the United States, in addition to political intent, I think there may be the following reasons:
1. By the rumor, the three become tigers
If we follow the US media, we can observe a weird phenomenon.In the same fact, different media reports can draw completely different conclusions and feelings.For example, endless shooting or former President Trump, some media reports list the facts, but some media have caused the shooting suspects or Trump to make the victims.Original.
In the United States, finding common enemies for various social issues is a necessary political operation.Now that you have done it with Russia, looking for the next -recognized common enemy of the country will be politically recognized.
Therefore, the three people become tigers with the rumors.Naturally, unreasonable countries will naturally be nailed by the United States and shaped into an enemy who does not wear the sky.China has become the culprit of the American folks and the culprit of the allegations of Xinjiang race extinction. It is a typical example.I traveled to Xinjiang in 2005 and 2009, and I felt that this allegations were groundless.
The development of the American media has a long history and maturity, so China's power on the media is weak, which is obvious to all.
2, closed doors and cars
The United States is a recognized economic overlord and the world police. Americans are also glorious for this and are willing to make sacrifices.Therefore, from time to time, the U.S. State Council sends out tourist risk warnings, advising Americans to be careful to travel overseas to prevent the goal of becoming a terrorist.Over time, most Americans only move in North America (including the United States, Canada and Mexico).In fact, there are less than 50%of Americans holding international passports.Before 2007 and 2009, only 20%of Americans had international passports before entering Mexico and Canada.
Therefore, although it is expensive for developed countries, the American people have a certain limitations of overseas understanding.Some people criticize Americans as frogs at the bottom of the well. I think that people of insight in the United States are still abound, but the people's views are indeed affected by people with care.I think they look at the incidents abroad, often subjectively believe that other countries follow the United States.In other words, even if they closed the door when they closed their doors, they would still feel unbelievable if they were in violation of their wishes and believed that it was someone else.
Three, the decline of the middle class
I clearly remember that in the 1980s to study in the United States, there was a utopian, full of American dreams.The main reason is that the United States welcomes dreamers and does not ask for their origin. Everyone who works hard can succeed.At that time, the middle class contributed more than 60%to the US economy, but now only about 30%.In other words, the gap between the rich and the poor in the United States has continued to deteriorate, and the middle -class elites have been lost rapidly.
In the past, the American society was liquid, and the poverty and the middle class had hope for promoting the middle class and superior society by their own efforts.A healthy distributed olive social structure can give moderate rewards, and people of all class can also give others assistance by their own abilities.However, the gap between the rich and the poor caused by the structure of the pyramid society has blocked the flow between the class, and the middle class has also begun to be squeezed to face the risk of downgrading. It is difficult to protect itself.
Gradually, the rich always feels that too much taxes, but the benefits from the country are not commensurate. They also feel that the poor are not self -conscious enough, and national benefits have deepened the dependence of the poor.Conversely, the poor always feel that the rich people have insufficient taxes, and their own people are opposed to this, and they are derived from incompatible residential areas and social security issues.
Why is the middle class decline?There are divergent opinions. My superficial understanding is that when the United States began to eliminate most of the manufacturing industry around 2000, and lost nearly a third of positions, the middle class began to be emptied.Because the service industry (especially the financial banking industry) has a high treatment and is not tired. The country has begun to take the way to obtain a clever road and create a large manufacturing country such as China and India.The dilemma of low income.The middle class has begun to become moonlight clan, and it is impossible to enter; Americans who are willing to work can no longer find the manufacturing work that can pay high salary.After the people loses their homes and become unprecedented tourists, social problems have deteriorated, and the accusations of China's stealing American rice bowls will occur.
The loss of the middle class deepen the gap between the rich and the poor, and then hinders the realization of the American dream.When Americans point to Asianship of social problems, the tolerance American society's melting furnace no longer exists, Asians are crowded out, and the development of the pond, and the development of the entire country has also been delayed.
The challenges that the United States is facing now cannot be ignored.I am convinced that the innovation capabilities of individual Americans still exist. They are still enthusiastic and sincere to foreigners. Only affected by various social problems can they have emotional reactions. This can only be resolved by the United States.
The author is a tourism consultant