I will borrow from Hank - US would have been great had it not been the Americans. The weather, scenery in LA/SF is just quite unbeatable. Art scene is vibrant. Food can be uneven - but if you know your way, you'd be OK. Flip side is you had to deal with the bad services and big-America thinking (again, we dont need the people prehaps...). I was so amazed at the energy I sensed at Berkeley. And so many Asian students! California really is a melting pot of all Asian cultures. Cant blame the parents - I do think kids should spend a few years in the US to take all these in; education is the better of what US had to offer for sure. But the Mao's Red Guard, Cultural Revolution style treatment I got at the SF Airport was quite shocking. Total abuse of power. This has got to change, no? They are outsourced anyway, why arent there KPIs like what we saw in China already? Chinese immigration has by a large margin now the world's most friendly and efficient immigration officers, esp in Beijing. Performance/consequence management rocks!!
Saturday, April 4, 2009
US - love/hate relationship
I will borrow from Hank - US would have been great had it not been the Americans. The weather, scenery in LA/SF is just quite unbeatable. Art scene is vibrant. Food can be uneven - but if you know your way, you'd be OK. Flip side is you had to deal with the bad services and big-America thinking (again, we dont need the people prehaps...). I was so amazed at the energy I sensed at Berkeley. And so many Asian students! California really is a melting pot of all Asian cultures. Cant blame the parents - I do think kids should spend a few years in the US to take all these in; education is the better of what US had to offer for sure. But the Mao's Red Guard, Cultural Revolution style treatment I got at the SF Airport was quite shocking. Total abuse of power. This has got to change, no? They are outsourced anyway, why arent there KPIs like what we saw in China already? Chinese immigration has by a large margin now the world's most friendly and efficient immigration officers, esp in Beijing. Performance/consequence management rocks!!
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But isn't that contradictory? All the things you like about US is also about the people. At least some people in LA & SF kept up the natural beauty and (instead of trashing it by putting smog in the air), cook the good food, create & appreciate the art. I admit immigration is a nightmare (I'm on the citizen line and it's not much better, so it's not about you). Will US be better if we replaced with Japanese (maybe), Scandinavian(am..), or Chinese (ha?).
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