economic war between east asia and the america

this is another source of tension and drinking for me. when i visited south korea on a northwestern flight, i met a man who was working for GM. he was starting a job in south korea. he looked like he was going to the gallows. at the same time that i sympathized with him, i could not really understand why south koreans would want GM cars. i had driven some GM cars and i much prefer the south korean cars.

but the simple fact is he may get the best service from south koreans but they are not going to give him an inch of the market. at the same time, GM could make modifications to make the cars more attractive to south koreans. these cars are difficult to market also. who would buy these cars?

the general tendency in south korea, japan, and china is to win at all costs against the united states.

but what are the health effects of this kind of war on the corporate employees? south koreans say that it is not unusual for a high ranking businessman to die at the age of 42. he has to entertain, drink, and flatter the american client in such a way that he is happy about losing. in my extended family of korean-american businessman, one uncle died due to alcohol. one uncle needed a liver transplant. i believe another uncle needed a liver transplant. they are businessmen and they wanted to gain more wealth so they could become more american. one uncle was rejected at a country club in north carolina. another uncle complained that he bought his son a nice car so he would be more accepted by americans. but was he more accepted. he was probably used as a tool to drive them to parties in which the americans got all the girls. korean-americans, many of them, prefer to live among themselves because they can have a sense of dignity, nature, and home instead of being insignificant, castrated players in american culture.

but the problem with this is that korean-americans then become a part of the imperialistic economic impulses of south korea and east asia in the eyes of americans. you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

my wife's sister, who lives in south korea, was very nervous about having a child due to work concerns. she was working 80-90 hours a week. americans are alos having to work harder and longer hours due to america's competition with east asia and asia.

to resolve this problem, americans often appeal to logic as the universal phenomena... but logic is a function of experience and really, logic is a mental phallus. there's almost a sadean quality to the way that americans try to drill logic into people who have been screwed over or made into a joke by americans.

it's not logical that you're made to feel a part of the crowd and then they make of a joke out of you by telling you some girl likes you when she actually thinks you're the ugliest thing she's ever seen.