Pantisocracy？

Yesterday we took the presentation in a lecture room. My classmates shared many interesting things about Australia and china throughout the whole progress. I was immersed and felt fruitful.

During that time, I also noticed a small episode: the wheelchair lift was moved by itself. At that moment, what I thought is that I had seen such facilities in ECU campus many times. However,  I haven’t seen this even once in my campus in China.

Another story took place on Perth’s buses. Once when we were waiting for the bus, we come through a disabled people with wheelchairs in lines with us. At that time, I just thought: gosh, how does he get in? I must help to lift him up!

And the bus came, just when I was going to help him into it, I saw the bus driver pressed a button, and then, a pedal slid out, and the disabled man managed his electric wheelchair into the car and said thank you to the driver.Yes in China I’ve never seen a disabled people take bus, maybe there is no pedal, nothing is convenient.

 In city center I noticed an old lady, maybe in her eighties. Her back was bent, she was feeding the pigeons alone in the square. People passed by, didn’t noticed her, as if it was normal, they thought the old lady is equal to us. We went into a shopping center. The clerks warmly welcomed us, and warmly said goodbye, we replied them with “thank you”.

I still remember that, when I was a primary student, my family and I went to a canteen and had lunch here. While we were eating, my father suddenly called a young waiter, asked him:” How old are you?” The waiter timidly replied:”15”. Hearing this, my father turned to me, laughing:”Listen huh? If you don’t study, you will end up just like the poor boy!” And the waiter just stand there, dared not say anything.

What can you get from that? In China someone thought that the service industry is inferior. Also, some waiters themselves even thought that they are truly lower.  Moreover, the infrastructures is still not completed. We seldom see disabled people walking on the street confidently, since the society is not very convenient and friendly for them.

These are the travails of China’s rapid economic development. The quality of our people is not high enough, our society is not civilized enough, prejudice constantly exists. We still have a long way to go before we can completely change them. However, we have the confident, we are making efforts right now, for the sake of eliminating discriminations against those who are struggling.

BTW, A developed country, not only depend on the amount of national wealth, but also on the quality of their citizens, the level of social development, and the construction of infrastructure. Hope we can get better!

Caesar