Non Fiction Blog Post

I read the article “MOVE OR ELSE” in the “UPFRONT” magazine, and I learned a lot about where our money goes when we buy thing that are made in china. The author Ian Johnson was talking about the negative effects that the money the economy makes from making 70% percent of the things stocked at Wal-Mart. The main negative effects of the billions f dollars china makes from America is that they are demolishing the homes of farmers and people living in rural parts of china.

     In the article it was describing the efforts that the Chinese government is making to ensure that they make the rural population of china non-existent in their current location and make them become “Office workers.”  This is information that is good to know because we can see not only the effect of us sending all our items to be made or equipped in china and the impact it has on our economy but china’s economy as well. The people of china that are being moved are completely out of their element because they are not used to high rise buildings and skyscrapers and jobs where you sit in a cubical. They are used to working in the fields and doing what they know. This was made clear in the text when the former farmers were asked about how they feel about their new living conditions and said, “ Those are for educated people.”

    Another effect that our importing goods made in china have on the people there especially the farmers is that they are not given a choice of whether they would like to move or not they are forced to move followed by having their house demolished. This shows that the business that we provide for china makes the people live lavish lifestyles, we soon to find out that all that money goes to the government that moves its people around like pawns on a chess board. The only solution to try and stop and or prevent things like this from happening is to boycott all goods that are made in china which was proven difficult to do in the text where it said “It sometimes seems that all the things that Americans buy is made in china-from clothing cellphones to refrigerators. About 70% of the goods Wal-Mart sells are made in china.”

     There is not much we can do about this dilemma due to the fact that china is a communist country. Therefore the government can do whatever, whenever they want to.  But we might be able to control what our companies do, and make sure that we can legally make sure they no longer support china and that they will send their goods to be made in other countries that will legally agree to have the money benefit the government and the people rather than simply “fueling the fire” by giving china money to do this to their people.

   All in all we as Americans sometimes do things the easy way because its cheaper and its not your problem what they do with the money but that is just sick because we have to worry about the overall well being of the people rather than disliking the innocent people their that have no power over the government. We should simply lend a helping hand not to the government but to the people.