Chapter 777: Cold-Joke
Barbara is like a hostess on the Atlantic floaters, holding drinking parties almost every day, either with the forces of industrial capital or with the forces of financial capital, after all, the alliance of new forces formed with Titan and the lower families of the diplomatic group as the core, in addition to reconciling conflicts of interest within industrial capital, of course, must also reconcile interests and conflicts with the forces of capital. In fact, preventing the middle class from rising to the top is much greater than the contradiction between industrial and financial capital, so it is not surprising that Barbara, as Phoebe's spokesperson, did so, but was appreciated by the two major capitalist powers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
That's why people are reluctant to let a large number of middle classes jump up the ladder, because although they have learned to think long-term, for example, they have learned to save money or something, but in fact, most of the middle class is actually the same as the lower class, and they make decisions based on their preferences.
And it is really dangerous to make decisions based on preferences, they are both easy to indulge and easy to predict, but at the end of the day, they can easily break some of the rules that the upper class likes very much.
Phoebe's performance all the time shows that she knows how to rule the upper circles, so although everyone is a little surprised that a new force has emerged in the industrial capital group, no one wants to deal with Titan - not to gain advantage in terms of commercial interests, but to eliminate the power of Titan.
And one of the proofs that can prove that everyone acquiesces to Titan's status is that although Phoebe herself is not there, but only has Barbara to represent her, no one thinks there is anything wrong with it. It's the World Bank, and among the people who came to the floating islands this time, there are actually not a few people who really have the final say, and even if they do, they haven't participated in any discussions, they are just very interested in the floating islands.
The entire upper class basically knew that these people who could really have the final say believed that only Phoebe was qualified to talk to them about something, and the rest, just like Phoebe had Barbara as a surrogate, they themselves had agents.
As for Phoebe being an artist in South Korea...... As I said before, who doesn't have a hobby? The upper class even felt that Phoebe's choice of play was not surprising at all, in fact, some people had already played it like this. However, Phoebe's choice to go to the Korean entertainment industry has made this game a lot more difficult, after all, it takes a lot of things to make the group Phoebe sit in get ahead.
Even in the eyes of many people, Phoebe does this like a business simulation game in a video game, the only difference is that Phoebe is playing a live-action version of the simulation game, while ordinary people are just working hard for life and future.
MOREOVER, BARBARA JOKINGLY MENTIONED THAT THERE IS ANOTHER REASON WHY PHOEBE CHOSE TO BE IN KOREA, THAT IS, IN KOREAN SPOKEN LANGUAGE, WHEN YOU, ME, YOU, AND WE ARE PRONOUNCED VERY SIMILAR TO NIGGER MANY TIMES, EVERYONE IMMEDIATELY LAUGHED IN UNDERSTANDING - IT SEEMS THAT PHOEBE IS ACTUALLY AN ARTIST IN KOREA TO INCREASE THE "DIFFICULTY OF THE GAME".
Well, this is not made up by Barbara, she and Phoebe have actually been in South Korea, and naturally know that Koreans have to say words similar to nigger pronunciation every five minutes on average in their daily lives, especially when they are fighting, and they are used more frequently, of course, when they pour out their love, such as when singing love songs, so the diplomatic bloc has always treated Koreans as jokes. It can't be helped, especially near the Yongsan base, there are often black soldiers who beat up Koreans in the early days, because Koreans, like all humans, often use you and me in their daily conversations......
For this reason, K-pop songs in Europe and the United States, especially in the United States, are completely unable to achieve the same level as Japanese music, of course, as the language spoken by 47 million people, there is nothing wrong with Korean, and there is nothing wrong with Koreans themselves.
Relatively speaking, the modern upper class has a much broader vision than the upper class before World War II, so of course they have long known that it is indeed funny to put Korean speakers and lower-middle class Americans together, so Barbara told Korean as a joke to others No one was surprised, but at the same time, she smiled and said that Phoebe increased the difficulty of the game in this way, which is indeed a bit unexpected.
In fact, Barbara has to say this, Phoebe didn't ask her to help herself explain why she wanted to be an artist in South Korea, in fact, with Phoebe's current identity, no matter what she does, she doesn't need to explain, but there will be many people who are willing to guess Phoebe's thoughts, and Barbara said that Phoebe chose South Korea to increase the difficulty of the game, which actually reflects such a fact.
In fact, as long as there is a human social structure, then there will be a phenomenon in which the middle and lower classes will figure out the ideas of the upper class.
And Barbara's approach actually seems to be helping Phoebe explain, and the real psychological motivation actually comes from her desire to understand and keep up with Phoebe's thoughts, and when she encounters Phoebe's thoughts that she can't understand, she needs to interpret Phoebe's approach in a way that she can understand, and this is actually the main psychological motivation of the middle and lower classes who figure out Shangyi-the farmer will say that the emperor's hoe for farming is made of gold.
Of course, Barbara's mention of Korean as a joke is actually because Phoebe once mentioned another thing to her, that is, when she was in China last year, Saman contacted Barbara, hoping that she could add some personnel to the Paralympic Charity Program at that time, Barbara originally thought that Phoebe had promised to involve the reserve members of the new group, and it would be the same this time, but Phoebe gave her an explanation at the time, which made Barbara remember it very deeply.
According to Phoebe, the reason for Girls' Generation to get rid of the Korean label is not only because of ethnic relations, but also because of another thing, that is, because the Korean language caused the boycott of Koreans in the United States.
After the U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, especially the black soldiers, beat up a lot of Koreans, the South Koreans reacted, it turned out that there was a problem with the personal pronouns "you" and "I" in their own language, no wonder they were beaten by the Americans, this was purely self-inflicted, but if it was changed, there was no way, after all, nearly 50 million people are using it like this.
Finally, South Koreans, who have been adept at being flexible under intense pressure for thousands of years, have finally come up with a way to increase the number of Korean speakers as much as possible.
In fact, South Koreans have always been envious of the fact that at the United Nations, Chinese has become one of the official languages because of the large number of 1.3 billion people who speak Chinese. And South Korea wants to become a big country, it is natural to let as many people as possible use Korean, and with the beginning of China's economic reform, during that period of time the technologically advanced Korean language, also became a language that Chinese are willing to learn, coupled with the subsequent Korean wave, Chinese enthusiasm for learning Korean is higher than a year, by 2004, because Chinese learn Korean and the number of people in the world who use Korean, it is easy to exceed 90 million people, this number is has joined more than 25 million people in northern neighboring countries, in other words, Chinese's enthusiasm for Korean, so that the number of Korean speakers will soon exceed 100 million。 After that, it can be openly declared in any media that Korean is an excellent language with 100 million speakers, and its plural cultural symbols can also make South Korea win a broader world in the world civilization family.
Anyway, Chinese like to learn Korean, then the Korean-speaking Chinese are also counted as people in the Korean cultural circle, in the long run, maybe they can squeeze Chinese out of the United Nations, let Korean take the position, of course, at that time, if Americans hear Korean again and think that they are swearing, then Americans are wrong, and the 1.3 billion Korean-speaking people will protest to the point that Americans are crazy.
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This is what Phoebe said to Barbara at that time, one of the possible reasons behind the popularity of Korean language teaching in Chinese mainland, Phoebe does not think that Chinese are not aware at all, so she naturally wants to let Girls' Generation get rid of Korean symbols, lest Koreans will be lively Chinese in the future, and Girls' Generation will also suffer.
Of course, such an amazing language invasion plan is actually just a possibility in Phoebe's logical thinking, Phoebe made it clear to Barbara that because there are so many possibilities, all she can do is to get Girls' Generation rid of the Korean label, so the company's idea of adding people to charity projects is fine, but it can't let Girls' Generation members have too much contact with those who are added later......
This incident made a deep impression on Barbara, plus she also lived in South Korea, and the embassy often had to face Koreans who were beaten by the U.S. military, as well as protesters who supported the beaten, so the combination of the two, Barbara knew that mentioning Korean was indeed said as a joke in American cultural circles, of course, because of this, as the Chinese's national power rose, they gradually gained the power to compete with the United States, but at the same time they were trying to learn Korean that is a joke in the United States...... Well, the Chinese are also a joke in the circle, but in any case, the Chinese are a joke in the eyes of the Americans, and no more such jokes are not much.
But Barbara also knows that Phoebe values the Chinese market very much - here it is talking about the entertainment market that Girls' Generation wants to enter, not the military and technology market where Titan is located - so neither Phoebe nor she, no matter where they are, will not make Chinese jokes, and the upper class actually has such a conventional unspoken rule - we do not joke about our enemies or customers, we only joke about those who are powerless to resist.
In fact, this unspoken rule has long been passed to the middle and lower classes with the elite education system in the United States, and the original idea of bullying incidents in schools and communities at all levels in the United States actually originates from this......
(Well, it was originally more than 5,400 words in total, but I rethought it when I released it, and finally deleted it as it is now, well, so be it)