{"id":1642,"date":"2008-06-18T01:10:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T01:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2017-08-18T01:21:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T01:21:10","slug":"the-other-side-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/the-other-side-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Side of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember one adult who approached me during a China trip fundraiser for the team:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cYou ask them,\u201d she said. \u201cYou ask them\u00a0why<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0It was never quite clear to me what she wanted to know, but I surmised it.<\/p>\n

What excites me about our trip is the\u00a0why<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0As I have learned in so many places I\u2019ve traveled, average people are kind and reasonable wherever we go; we all just have different pieces of the same story.\u00a0\u00a0Where we justifiably worry about job loss due to outsourcing, China justifiably sees more unemployed on its mainland than the US has workers.\u00a0\u00a0Together, a larger picture of our global economy emerges.<\/p>\n

And where we argue for individual liberty and freedoms, China understands these as affirmed equally for all citizens\u2014in other words, the needs and the growth of the social and political state are priorities so this progress can be gained equally for all.\u00a0\u00a0Do Americans scoff at the justice there?\u00a0\u00a0Perhaps. What might the Chinese scoff at in our own government?<\/p>\n

But this goes too far astray of what I wanted to write pre-trip.\u00a0\u00a0The fact is, I\u2019m excited about our small role in seeing the different sides of stories converge, in making friends on both sides of the world, in encountering bias and freeing ourselves of some of our own.\u00a0\u00a0We can debate global security or US-China trade, but the real learning will be in the expansion of our cultural experience.<\/p>\n

For myself, people are good wherever I encounter them; sometimes it\u2019s just the politics of fear which complicates our behavior.<\/p>\n

I want us all to try everything we see, and this blog space will find each of our travelers taking turns offering stories of our experiences and their reflections.<\/p>\n

If all goes well, expect a new morning read each day through July 7.\u00a0\u00a0Our night will be the US dawn, and between the two will be our stories.<\/p>\n

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I remember one adult who approached me during a China trip fundraiser for the team:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cYou ask them,\u201d she said. \u201cYou ask them\u00a0why.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0It was never quite clear to me what she wanted to know, but I surmised it. What excites me about our trip is the\u00a0why.\u00a0\u00a0As I have learned in so many places I\u2019ve traveled, average […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,304],"tags":[356,541,543,544],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chizblog","category-travel","tag-china","tag-culture","tag-friendship","tag-relationship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/08\/uschina.jpg?fit=402%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":807,"url":"https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/feeling-chinas-lead\/","url_meta":{"origin":1642,"position":0},"title":"Feeling China\u2019s Lead","author":"Steve Chisnell","date":"2007 Oct 13","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Sunday I heard the women in the restaurant booth next to mine complain about toys from China.\u00a0\u00a0One, in particular, was loud and vehement in her opinions.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m going to buy American from now on!\u201d she practically yelled. \u201cChina should just leave us alone!\u201d And no, I didn\u2019t set down my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "ChizBlog"","block_context":{"text":"ChizBlog","link":"https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/category\/chizblog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/04\/dora.jpg?fit=597%2C417&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/04\/dora.jpg?fit=597%2C417&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/04\/dora.jpg?fit=597%2C417&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1635,"url":"https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/road-through-henan\/","url_meta":{"origin":1642,"position":1},"title":"Road Through Henan","author":"Steve Chisnell","date":"2008 Jun 25","format":false,"excerpt":"As we drove through the hills of Henan on our way to Luoyang, we passed a steady stream of trucks moving east and west; the eastward trucks were moving in our direction, spreading goods to the major and middle cities, and the westward trucks, heavily laden, were taking supplies to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "ChizBlog"","block_context":{"text":"ChizBlog","link":"https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/category\/chizblog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/08\/Chinese-shoppers.jpg?fit=400%2C300&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1744,"url":"https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/american-road-trip-1-iowa-to-michigan\/","url_meta":{"origin":1642,"position":2},"title":"American Road Trip 1: Iowa to Michigan","author":"Steve Chisnell","date":"2009 Aug 7","format":false,"excerpt":"Day Sixteen: Iowa to Michigan Before leaving Iowa, I had two important stops. 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