My personal story about Chinese culture

 

Then I found my true love.

After being divorced a short time and having the Beijing games and interaction with Chinese on the internet to raise my spirits up again, I clicked around and felt a more romantic sensation about China. Not only to find a better understanding of life's social options and beliefs, but to realize that a woman from China would also have these beliefs. I made 2 good friends, but when I met a special lady with a good level of intelligence and common ideas, my life was forever changed. It didn't begin as romance, but I realized that I was speaking with a rare and beautiful divorced woman. Well, we were married in the U.S. on Valentines day in 2010. A year later, she wrote a story about us for the Women of China magazine (U.S. edition - Oct. 2011).

Living in America, there were any number of influences from other parts of the world, but none were as widely known as Chinese Food. Finding China, Chinese ideology, love and happiness made my plate full. China is now a part of my everyday life. I follow the news televised by CCTV, I read China Daily, People's Daily, and I continue to write comments, review topics with my wife and enjoy a wonderfully happy time with our children (my 12 year-old daughter and her son, who is 23). Now I only hope for China to continue to develop a better way for Chinese and for the west and other parts of the world to work toward a cooperation and understanding of China and Chinese ideology and culture. You could say that my Chinese Dream has come true, but there is still a lot of work to bring out the best for everyone.

Where do we go from here?

For one reason or another, the world is changing. The balance of power is shifting toward a globalized model that no longer recognizes one key nation. With China's rapid growth in the last 30 years, China's long road of socialist values, or "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", has come to the forefront as the driving force of global economic recovery. Along with it, Chinese culture is more available than ever, and the internet has brought us all closer together. It isn't hard to imagine a harmonious world, one with all nations working together to benefit equally from what the planet has to offer, one where all countries contribute to the planned benefit of all people, one where our only enemy is natural disaster, disease and old age.

Imagine a world where designated areas are harvested for the natural abundance they can produce, to feed the world, where manufacturing and distribution are spread evenly to provide things we use in our daily life, and everyone has a job to support the ongoing effort in all regions, where innovations are utilized in all areas that can benefit, where no one gets rich for themselves, alone.

By Paul Vangelisti