I want to change China!
I have a dream!There are many things I want to do in life; visit all world's metropolitan cities before I die, finish my Master degree (which I will), open up a cafe and vintage store in SH, but one of the things that I really really really want to do is to make China a bit more glamourous and trendy.
Through my whole life I have watched China from another country's perspective. What I can say is that too many times the Chinese people has been looked upon as poor and nerdy which is very unfortunate. Now, when it is gradually changing I want to be the one who can push it further forward. I see how much potential China has, starting with Shanghai. I see all those cute students (my aim) bleeding their eyes out studying Chemical Engineering (nothing wrong with that) and not care about ANYTHING else. I'm not saying it's not good to focus on studying, what I'm saying is that they should also be interested in other things.
In the US, this started long time ago, companies supporting fashion blogs, every broadsheet having their own fashion journalist, celebrity gossip swarming on websites, etc.
Sweden has also gone a long way, we have sooooo many fashion journalists now, every single 16 years old girl has a blog showing their outfits, the popular media is basically just focusing on fashion and celebrities.
I'm also aware of that this might not only be a good thing; makes the world even more materialistic than it already is, make people even more shallow than they already are (I bet you're pointing at me) BUT it makes the world more colourful! I just want to prove for everyone that China can and will!
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posted by Shopgirl at 3:45 PM
5 Comments:
It is not about materialism. It is about fashion.
The company I am bringing to China is all about fashion. It can lead into materialism. But I think that is when people go to the extreme to try and copy others instead of being themselves..
You can have fashion and not be materialistic.. Unfortunately, there are many Chinese women that do not know what fashion means..
Look at Japanese, Korean women, they know fashion very well.
Good luck in what you want to accomplish. The single biggest challenge I have had is to adapt our fashion to the Chinese consumer. A lot harder than it looks.
Jeff
Hi, Siyan.
Good luck with your dreams!
Do you want to exchange links with my blog...?
http://www.abassterinternational.blogspot.com
hey you blog is really nice!! how i envy you so much...i wish i could have a blog just like you:D
Jeff: yes, I do agree with you on that one. I think that the Chinese society and politcs has something to do with it.
Anonymous: That is so sweet of you to say :)
I really appreciate your comment.
the first thing that came to my mind as i read this entry's title was that it has more the case of china changing me (in lots of ways i wont' bore u with here) than me changing china hehe
anyway i support ur dream, which i don't see as impossible, though it's gonna take quite some time to come true EVERYWHERE. consider u say u want China to be more fashionable and u actually already are in the most fashionable of chinese cities...
as for the students who seem to only care abt their studies and anything else...well, u for sure know much better than me the pressure chinese students have to face especially in high school and university...to the point that some will even tell u having a bf/gf in school years is considered not good coz it would distract their attention from study...
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