Chapter 11: Comrade
Regarding Anton's evaluation, Nick can only sigh: "In the capitalist system, there are too few people who do not worship money. β
"Don't look for a girlfriend if you don't have it." Anton didn't understand very well, "Why do you have to find a girlfriend?" β
Nick was silent for a moment. yes, why do you have to find a girlfriend? In capitalist society, under the influence of capitalist legal power, there are many more money worshippers themselves than non-money worshippers. Therefore, if you don't have a good material foundation, it is very risky to fall in love. According to more stressful places, such as Japan, some young people have begun to stop falling in love.
He thought about it carefully, whether he was confused by the prosperity of the big city of New York, and followed the tide of money worship to live the life that the capitalists wanted people to live. Find a girlfriend, get married, have children, waste your energy on internal friction with your partner and same-sex competitors, increase consumption and produce the next generation of proletariats by the way.
In fact, there is no need to find a girlfriend at all. Just like he is now, he can go to Mexico without a girlfriend. Just because Karl Marx was married when he did the work of the workers' movement does not mean that this criterion cannot be used to demand the revolutionaries of the present.
But there's always something good about finding a girlfriend, Nick said: "The girl in New York is cute, and even if it doesn't last long, it's good to date her." And how did I know she was so money worshipper at that time? β
"The girl is cute?" Anton jokingly suggested, "You can try printing her picture and sticking it all over your house and see how long you can last without feeling sick." β
"How can this feel disgusting?" Nick couldn't understand it at all.
Anton thought for a moment, and the photo alone might not achieve that effect: "Then in addition to the photo, you record an audio and play every time you play something like 'My girlfriend so-and-so is the cutest'." I'm sure you'll never want to see that face again in less than half a month. β
Nick made up for it, it might not be very bearable. After all, people have a rebellious mentality, no matter what it is, they will always feel bored if they repeat it too much. But he didn't quite understand how Anton came up with this trick: "Have you tried this method?" β
"You think I tried this on purpose?" Anton complained a little unhappily, "I don't want to look at those 'sisters' in my own home." β
"What JIE what?" Nick clearly didn't understand the Chinese word in his middle.
"It literally means 'older girl.'" Anton criticized as he drove the car into the parking lot of Qi Min's school, "From this, I guess that this term was first used by those naΓ―ve young fans." β
Nick kind of understood, but thought it was a bit funny: "Does your girlfriend like those subcultures of IDOL?" The Doctor also likes this kind of thing? β
"Ph.D. students, not Ph.D.s." Anton corrected, "That shouldn't be a subculture, or even a serious actor." In contrast, it is not as much as the color [harmony] in the ACG subculture. β
"ACG I think it's more positive, and the color [harmony] presented in the form of ACG is at least stronger than shooting with real people." Nick fairly.
"That's right." Anton also admitted this. The physiological needs of human beings are impossible to stop, and he even feels that he can acquiesce to some pedophiles who are really unable to be interested in adults to secretly possess ACG products with similar themes - but as long as this person is not his girlfriend, he will go to school
The car was parked, Anton called Qi Min again, and after ringing, the bell rang seven times and still no one answered, and finally exceeded the time and hung up automatically.
"Don't you take it yet?" Nick asked, "Maybe there's something really going on." β
Anton felt that he should go up to her, and although the laboratory building couldn't be opened without a card, it was lunchtime, and it was still feasible to get in with the card - he often went in and out of various places when he was delivering food.
However, as soon as he pushed the car door, he saw the glass door of the laboratory building open, and Qi Min ran over, beckoning to him as if he was completely unaware of how many calls he had missed.
Anton closed the car door, rolled down the co-pilot's window, and said outside: "Hey, why don't you answer the phone?" β
"Oh, make up the experiment in the morning, and the phone is on silent." Qi Min still looked heartless, "I saw the text message you sent, I'm pretty punctual, right, you've just arrived, haven't you?" β
She looked back through the passenger window, saw Nick, and greeted him in plastic English with a rather hard accent, "Hey! You're Anton's friend, aren't you, Comrade Nicholas? β
Nick was a little surprised that Anton's girlfriend would call him a paddle comrade." But according to his understanding of China, the gender-neutral honorific title of "comrade" should be popular in former socialist countries, and he agrees that it is a more affirmative system.
"Hello...... Comrade Min. Nick shook her hand.
Qi Min pulled the car door and got into the car, and when he saw the angry look that Anton deliberately made in the driver's seat, he remembered that it was not correct not to answer the phone after all. But she couldn't feel what a terrible feeling it was for the other party to not answer the phone through empathy, and just apologized with a smile: "Ah, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have muted all the time." You must be in a hurry, aren't you? β
Anton couldn't hold back his smile when he saw her, and was a little unprincipled: "It's not too anxious." Nick wants to go to the steakhouse, so let's go to the restaurant across the street from our restaurant. β
"Okay." Qi Min asked, "Do you want to go directly, or put your luggage home first?" β
"Wait," Nick asked, "you're going to let me live in your house?" β
"Of course, the hotel room rate is not cheap." Qi Min said happily, "And as someone who has never been to New York, I also want to know about the experience of running a worker study group in New York." β
Nick raised an eyebrow in surprise, passing a questioning look from the rearview mirror to Anton, who was driving. He actually went to New York to set up a workers' study group, which is actually nothing to hide, but in this right-wing majority of the broken town, for the sake of face, Nick or Xuancheng himself went to New York to try his luck and make money.
"Don't be surprised, Min did a study group for students when he was in college." Anton explains, "The new college students also have high school degrees, and I think this experience should be exchanged. β
Nick immediately looked at the student from China in a different light. He observed Qi Min for two seconds and noticed that she was really a little different from many of the first-generation Asian immigrants he had met in New York β the biggest difference was that although her skin tone was darker than that of white people, there was no trace of sunburn.
Whether it is out of adherence to native culture or disdain for capitalism-shaped aesthetics, this reflects a certain disagreement with mainstream American aesthetics
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