Chapter 489 Infrastructure in the Slums

When Xiao Peng walked out of the courtroom, it was called a high-spirited person. Hugh Norman said goodbye to him just now, but he still agreed to the request of Chris and the others, and did not deal with the matter in a big way, but handed it over to the California Department of Justice to handle it himself. Hugh went to stare at the results, although this matter was not publicized to the public, but Larry, Catherine and the like could not escape the punishment of the law. Do you really think it's so easy to get away with responsibility?

"Mr. Xiao, the matter is settled?" the car door opened, and Devin stepped out of the car to greet Xiao Peng.

Xiao Peng nodded: "Yes, I solved a problem." ”

Devin smiled: "It seems that the result is good, you are in a good mood." ”

Xiao Peng waved his hand: "It's okay." ”

Devon picked Xiao Peng into the car and asked, "Shall we go back now?"

Xiao Peng shook his head: "Devon, Pagio said you know about African-American neighborhoods? Can you show me around?"

Devin frowned slightly: "Mr. Xiao, it's dirty and messy here, what's there to see?"

Xiao Peng handed it to Devon and Michael, who was sitting in the passenger seat, and said, "Don't be so nervous, smoke a cigar, I'll satisfy my curiosity." ”

Devon and Michael glanced at each other, nodded and said, "Mr. Xiao, you can take a look here, but you can't get out of the car." Otherwise, we can't guarantee your safety. ”

Xiao Peng smiled and nodded: "Don't worry about me, I'm fine." ”

Devin continued: "If our car is shot at, if our boss wants us to take responsibility, you can't put the blame on us!"

Xiao Peng laughed: "Don't worry, even if this car blows up, you don't have to be responsible." Let's hang around here, I really haven't been around the African community yet. ”

Devin shrugged, "Actually, nothing is going to get better here. You're not interested in walking around here. After speaking, he drove directly and took Xiao Peng to walk around the Hood community.

The Hood community is actually not small, with hundreds of households. This is definitely a Greater Community in the Stars and Stripes.

The administrative planning of the Stars and Stripes is very interesting, for example, cities, some cities, like New York, Los Angeles and so on, have tens of millions of people. There are also cities with only a few hundred households. A neighborhood like Hood has a population that almost rivals that of a small city in the middle of the Stars and Stripes.

And although it is an African-American community, there are also a lot of old inks living here, after all, the rent here is cheap, and the old inks are not good at stubble, you know, there are five million illegal immigrants in Los Angeles alone!

The local government in Los Angeles turned a blind eye to these 5 million illegal immigrants, and the Stars and Stripes could not do without them, driving them all away, who would do the dirty work? Not to mention that their wages were also low, and the bosses were willing to use them, but they were just pretending to be stupid on the surface. Especially in Los Angeles, when you go to Wal-Mart and something like that, the staff is all old ink and black brothers, and it seems that only in Kansas City, Wal-Mart is white as waiters------ because there are very few African-Americans and old inks there。。。。。。

In fact, all the Chinese people who have arrived in the Stars and Stripes Country, especially Los Angeles, have the first feeling that they are backward. Because there are not many high-rise buildings in Los Angeles at all, there are small buildings everywhere, because this is an earthquake zone, it is not suitable for high-rise buildings at all, so most of Los Angeles gives people the feeling of backwardness and tatters, not to mention that the Hood community is a slum area in Los Angeles?

But after taking a turn here, Xiao Peng really understood why the Stars and Stripes Country was a developed country.

Their development does not lie in how developed they are in the most developed places. Rather, it is that their poor and backward places are not so poor and backward compared to other countries.

Take the Hood community, for example, according to Devon, the median income of people living here is $17,511 a year, and the median income of a family combined is $24,124 a year.

What kind of concept is this? The median per capita income in the United States is about $37,000! Not to mention that this is Los Angeles, and the code farmers in Silicon Valley claim that an annual salary of 100,000 yuan is the poverty line. The income of the Hood community is less than half of the national average.

But in such a poor community, although there is no Wal-Mart and McDonald's, it still guarantees access to water, electricity, and the Internet, not to mention that there are still two schools! One is from elementary school to high school, and the other is a community college! Every student is guaranteed to be picked up by a school bus! And it must be a professional school bus!

If someone asks what car is the strongest in the Stars and Stripes, some people think it's a Humvee, some people think it's a Wrangler, and some people even think of a heavy truck, in fact, it's all wrong, and the sturdiest car in the Stars and Stripes Country is undoubtedly a school bus! Because all school buses are built according to the standard of 'armored cars', and the Stars and Stripes Country is the first country in the world to use school buses, and it has a history of 100 years. With the development of the times, school buses have also become one of the safest models on the road.

Including the thickness of the steel plate, the width of the door, the rollover protection, the collision safety structure, the bumper, the overall structure of the body, the roll performance, the seat material, etc., must be in accordance with strict regulations and requirements, and the school bus also has a life-saving kit, life-saving equipment and so on. And the reason why they put so much emphasis on school buses is simple: 'Who knows which of these will be the next president of the Stars and Stripes?'

Such a school bus costs more than 100,000 US dollars, but in such a poor community, Xiao Peng actually saw two!

And the school here is not as dilapidated as the school in the poor mountainous area of China, the school here is the most beautiful building in the community, and there are all kinds of indoor basketball courts and computer rooms.

And in the whole community, it involves the most basic facilities, such as water and electricity, fire protection, drinking water, natural disaster shelters, etc.

The Stars and Stripes spend a lot of their resources on unprofitable infrastructure, and although it is a bit rough compared to the so-called infrastructure madness of Huaxia, they will not ignore them because the people here are poor.

In fact, the biggest feature of slums is poor security and family income, but slums also have to ensure all kinds of infrastructure. Objectively speaking, this is where Huaxia is currently inferior to the Stars and Stripes.

Xiao Peng went around and found that it was quite boring, there were no people on the street, and when people saw Xiao Peng's Cadillac, they often stopped to observe, after all, this was not the car here, and they also wanted to know who was in the car.

Just when Xiao Peng sighed at the improvement of the infrastructure here, Devin said with a smile: "Mr. Xiao, don't be reluctant to listen to what I say. In fact, if you talk about it, in the Stars and Stripes, the status of Chinese Americans is probably not as good as that of African Americans. Don't look at the Chinese who are rich. ”

Xiao Peng was stunned: "Why do you say that?"

Devin explains: "The status of an ethnic group in the Stars and Stripes is determined more by the elite of that ethnic group than by the average income of the ethnic group as a whole, and the status of an ethnic group in the Stars and Stripes is also determined by its control over the media, and the Asian ethnic group is the weakest in this regard." ”

"In the abstract, whoever controls the media can use the media to steer other people's opinions, and whoever uses other people's votes to support policies and candidates that are beneficial to them. To control the media in the Stars and Stripes is to control political power, but also to control discourse. You see, my boss, he is not the top group of people in terms of wealth alone, but why is he respected? It is because of the influence of the Prada Group in front of the media. ”

"In fact, Asians have made a lot of contributions to the Stars and Stripes, with high average incomes, many scientists, and high average education, but that doesn't equal rights and status. ”

Xiao Peng frowned and asked, "But the problem of African American crime is a big problem in the Stars and Stripes, right? How can their status be higher than that of hard-working and capable Asians?"

Devin continued: "Mr. Shaw, don't be angry, someone once made a statistic and you think that white people are prejudiced against African Americans? In fact, this is not the case, in fact, white people are more prejudiced against Asians, on the contrary, African Americans' attitudes towards Asians are much better than white people's attitudes towards Asians. African-Americans are much better than Asians in terms of media and discourse! Although their average income is low, they have their own media system, their own channel, their own music company, and their own music media system. Let's talk about the hip-hop industry, which has created countless African-American media elites, celebrities, and companies, as well as their own directors, producers, media executives, stars, sports stars, etc., all of whom are representing African Americans. In comparison, there are far too few people who speak up for Asians. Mr. Xiao, you won't be unhappy when I say this about you Chinese, right?"

Xiao Peng shrugged: "Why should I be unhappy? This is not a matter for us Huaxia people, this is a matter for you Stars and Stripes." ”

Of course, Xiao Peng is not without psychological fluctuations, in Huaxia, all kinds of irresponsible remarks abound, especially on the Internet, because he is not responsible, he can talk nonsense.

Whenever Chinese people are discriminated against and try to defend their rights and interests, someone will always jump out and sneer: "You have a really high consciousness of class struggle. "The reason is nothing more than to show that I stand on the position of the 'international elite', and I have a long-term vision and a more status than you.

If someone says that white people generally discriminate against Chinese people and treat Asian women as toys, someone will definitely stand up and say, "That's because you can't make a girl yourself." ”

If someone says that African-Americans are poor and bullied Chinese-Americans, there will definitely be people who say, "The African-Americans around me are all good people." This means that the person who speaks is LO and can only see the African Americans in the slums, but not the African Americans in the elite circle.

In short, it is all kinds of schadenfreude that take the opportunity to show themselves, as Hegel said, China actually has no history, only cycles.

Seeing the faces of these people, Xiao Peng understood why Huaxia had allowed the Japanese to invade for so many years. This is the slave mentality! That is, these psychology of these people have led many Chinese people to go to foreign countries, and they have to be grandsons, and as a result, they have met foreigners in China, and they have become grandsons!

Xiao Peng was not in a good mood, and just wanted to tell Devon to go back, who knew that at this moment, he saw an old Corolla car slowly driving in front of him, sprayed with various colors of paint, and a few balloons were hung. The trunk in the back of the car opened, and the stereo inside played loud hip-hop music.

Xiao Peng asked curiously, "Devon, what is this for?"

Devin smiled: "Mr. Xiao, your luck is good, today let you see a very important hip-hop genre in Los Angeles." It is also one of the best developed genres right now. ”

Xiao Peng frowned: "Huh, what is that?"