Finished watching it at noon. The film is a good one, but I would also like to say something off topic about the whole social class and allocation of resources based on my own experiences and feelings.
Of course, it needs to be stated that the point of view of this article is only for my country's industrial industry, and does not involve the situation of other industries.
From 2010 to 2014, I worked in a research and development center of a Nanjing branch of a Fortune 500 foreign company.
At that time, the entire fluid industry developed rapidly, and the company developed rapidly. The work of technical support and sales is unified in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai . In addition, the company has only established two R&D centers in the Asia-Pacific region, one in Nanjing and the other in New Delhi .
This looks like a world of great harmony, fairness and peace, right? But in essence, stratum and resource allocation are always fixed and insurmountable.
Although we Asians are "intelligent people with more complete evolution" and have our own technical advantages, we can only complete a project together through cross-border cooperation and under the supervision of Americans. At the same time, because each country has its own rules and regulations and lack of resources, each of our projects inevitably encounters some low-level restraints and pressures that should not have existed. These restraints and pressures are incomprehensible to Americans, Singaporeans, and Hong Kongers with higher autonomy and more mature rules and regulations.
Later, after a business trip in the United States, I found that their production line standards, R&D standards, and even company rules and regulations are very clear and very user-friendly. As long as you are not too lazy, work hard, and live well, there is no problem with working diligently in a job for 30 years, and the society will never easily make you feel anxious that you have nothing to do.
In contrast, those of us in Asia, even if we have certain pursuits, want to go deeper into what we are doing (here refers specifically to the research and development and innovation of industrial products)? There is no such space and resources at all.
Therefore, you can't really blame the uneven distribution of resources. If there are resources, you may not be able to handle them.
Regarding the education gap, I can give one more chestnut.
At that time, there was a lovely Indian guy named Abu in the software team. He was on a long business trip in Nanjing. In his spare time, we would take him to play around in Nanjing.
He is vegetarian, looks talented, very polite, respects women very much, graduated from a prestigious school, speaks English and French, his father is a tobacco company tycoon, has three beautiful sisters, drives a Lamborghini to work, and travels abroad at least twice a year. .. ...he described his life to us calmly while eating vegetarian chicken wings, as if these are normal things in India.
We asked him, what is the biggest feeling in China?
He said: "It's so different. I'm very happy in China. Look at your R&D center. Two-thirds of the R&D centers are young and beautiful girls, and there are fewer boys. But there are only three women in the entire R&D center in India. They are still aunt-level logisticians. But there is no way out. In India, it is not easy to be eligible to go to school.”
We asked him again, what kind of person is eligible to go to school?
He said: "It's definitely not possible without money, but it's not enough if you have money alone. Parents must be educated people, preferably relatives who are government officials. When studying, some of the classmates rely on their own strength to get special places. Very hardworking, smart kids, but after graduation, almost no big company will look for them to work. Then they disappeared, and I don’t know how they are now.”
At that time, several of our Chinese children looked at each other in dismay, feeling that the world was as dark as a crow, but at the same time, we were a little fortunate that we were born in China.
Some people may say, why do you have to do things for foreigners? If they hold on to the core technology and don't let go, can't we develop and produce it ourselves?
Yes, that's right, we really don't have that confidence and hard power, so don't pretend that you have that backbone.
Think about it carefully, what subjects do children learn in school? What are the majors that everyone is flocking to? How much lack of resources do you want to start an industry after graduation? Will Shen Xingxin do things like an ascetic and at the same time cause his family to starve to death?
It's not that we don't have core skills, it's not that we don't have creativity, stress resistance, and thinking skills. Our education teaches us to be a successful person from an early age, but what exactly is success? Most ignorant kids don't even know it!
All this is really hard.
Back to movies. After watching the movie, I am very willing to believe that the situation in India will slowly get better. Even if the story is indeed too idealistic, awakening and reflection are always the beginning of all good changes.
Just relying on denial, occlusion and perfunctory things will not create a good educational environment, and don't think about what really powerful seedlings can develop in such deformed soil.
I really hope to see one day, my country can also make such a movie.
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