Chapter 217: The So-Called 'American Dream'
Coming to Yanjing, the only political heart in China, Zhang Junyi will certainly not indulge in eating, drinking and having fun every day, although for Zhang Junyi, what he pursues in his life is only to enjoy the happiest life in this life, but if he wants to achieve such a goal, it is not that it can be formed simply.
You must know that in today's society, everyone's body will be shrouded by all kinds of invisible nets since birth.
There is an old saying that if you want to be a noble person in front of others, the first thing you have to learn is to suffer from your back.
What does this sentence mean, in fact, it literally means that if a person wants to be noble in front of others, he must be able to withstand both physical and mental tempering. As long as you grit your teeth, hold your chest high, and persevere, you can become the final victor. Isn't it the most satisfying thing in life?
You will definitely have to suffer a lot and suffer a lot of sins before you succeed. If you retreat, you are doomed to a life of inaction and mediocrity: and once you grit your teeth and persevere, you will be able to usher in a sunny day and enjoy the scenery of the nobility in front of people.
Of course, Zhang Junyi is undoubtedly much better than others, at least, from a congenital point of view, Zhang Junyi occupies a lot of advantage compared to others, and his family background is considered to be above the middle, although he is not from a famous aristocratic background, but with the hard work of Zhang's father for most of his life, he can be regarded as earning a family business that is very wealthy in the eyes of ordinary people.
In addition, not to mention Zhang Junyi's own innate rebirth back to more than ten years, nearly twenty years of future memories, and the [unreasonable system], which can be called the golden finger against the sky.
So to a certain extent, from a natural point of view, Zhang Junyi is actually not inferior to those top second-generation elites who were born with golden keys in China, and even in a sense, Zhang Junyi's natural attributes are more advantageous than them.
With the more and more success of China's reform and opening up, in fact, it is not the United States that has any 'American dream' in this world.
In today's China, the influence of the so-called 'American dream' is no less than that of those European and American powers.
What is the 'American dream', in fact, the word "American" literally carries the word "American", the real meaning of the so-called "American dream" is just a dream of personal success, but because this word was first defined by some people in the United States, it is called the "American dream".
Since 1776, generations of Americans have believed that a better life can be achieved through hard work, courage, creativity, and determination, and that people must prosper through their own hard work, courage, creativity, and determination, rather than relying on the assistance of a particular social class or others.
Unlike most other countries, there is a lot of economic freedom in the United States, and the role of government is quite limited, which makes it extremely mobile for anyone to reach the top through their own efforts.
For more than 200 years, the "American Dream" has inspired countless young people around the world who have dreams, whether they have immigrated or studied or smuggled away, who have abandoned their homeland and gone through a lot of hardships to come to this land to create their own value, and the United States has become the cradle of many successful people around the world.
The 'American Dream' usually refers to people's economic success or entrepreneurial spirit.
In fact, long before the United States proposed the definition of the 'American dream', there were many such examples in our own China.
But there is an old saying in China: diligence can make up for clumsiness, and God rewards diligence.
Before the famous educator Tao Xingzhi died, he warned his son on the sickbed, "Sweat your own sweat and eat your own food, do your own things, and rely on heaven and earth to rely on your ancestors is not a good man."
Only through one's own hard work can one truly find one's own wealth and happiness.
In fact, the early "American dream" was more of a dream of European immigrants, and many people in contemporary American history circles are facing up to and reflecting on this history, which is the unrighteous side of the "American dream".
In Europe in the 18th ~ 19th century, the aristocracy had not yet withdrawn from the historical stage, the social hierarchy was strict, the wealth distribution was unfair, and the religious discrimination was serious...... Montesquieu, Descartes and other pioneers of the Enlightenment began to praise the magical land of the United States, which also ignited the "American dream" of the disadvantaged.
The immigrants who came to America in the 18th century were all disadvantaged Europeans, most notably the Puritans in England and the bankrupt small farmers in Germany, and when they arrived in the United States, which was still a colony, the demand for political equality was particularly strong and democracy was spontaneously implemented.
As a result, "equal rights" has become a connotation of the "American dream".
"Everyone can succeed" is due to the fact that in the early days of the United States, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and immigrants were able to acquire large tracts of fertile land.
At that time, the United States was still a predominantly agricultural economy, and land meant wealth and success. With the discovery of many gold mines in the western United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, some lucky people began to get rich overnight because of gold digging.
However, behind this "sweet dream" is also a bloody history: large tracts of land acquired by European immigrants were "terra nullius" obtained by slaughtering millions of Indians; most of the cultivators of high-yield farmland were black slaves from Africa; and the laborers who went west to dig for gold were Chinese hard laborers who were full of blood and tears.
Around the time of the Civil War, the United States began to industrialize. Immigrants from Europe are moving more into new industrial cities such as New York, Chicago, and Detroit. Since then, the "American Dream" has taken on a new connotation.
During this period, there were many industrial and commercial tycoons who struggled to get started.
For example, Edison, who founded General Electric Company based on personal invention, Rockefeller, who extracted oil, Morgan, who engaged in banking, and Ford, who invented the automobile production line. What they all have in common is that they started from humble beginnings, but through hard work, they finally built their own huge business and became legends.
IN THE INFORMATION AGE OF THE 21ST CENTURY, STEVE JOBS, THE FATHER OF APPLE, BILL GATES OF MICROSOFT, ZHIYUAN YANG OF YAHOO, AND THE THREE FOUNDERS OF GOOGLE HAVE BECOME THE NEW IDOLS OF THE "AMERICAN DREAM". These living stories seem to show that with wisdom and talent, success can be achieved in the United States.
Well, it seems that the topic is far away again, whether it is the 'American dream' or the dream of personal success, in short, in today's China, as long as the examples of some successful people who are self-made are always more than those who have achieved success by the second generation, they have some natural bonus aura.
In these days in Yanjing, in addition to the so-called visiting places of interest and tasting local specialties, Zhang Junyi has not fallen at all in serious matters, not to mention the game of "Onmyoji", from the early hours of the night before, after one of his phone calls woke up Jiang Wenyan, who was sleeping at home, he has also had several phone calls one after another in the past few days.
In addition to the mobile game box that he was preparing to eat alone, the concept of sharing bicycles mentioned by Zhang Junyi and the top second generations was also discussed several times in private during the period.
Some seemingly serious problems, after several active and serious discussions, we have also come up with solutions to some problems, of course, Zhang Junyi is absolutely indispensable in them.
Although for this field, Zhang Junyi in his previous life was just a layman who ate melons, but after all, he has more memories in his mind than others that he will know in the future, although these memories may not be anything in front of the general public, but when these things fall into the ears of the elite second generation cultivated by these top giants, they can often play a certain role in making a final decision and drawing inferences.