Chapter 10 Section 10 On Occupational Discrimination

In today's modern society with division of labor and cooperation, if you must say "Everything is inferior, only reading is high", no one will send you to court, but certainly no one will think that you have insisted on human society. universal truth.Reading is an essential process of life in modern society. The concept of modern society is that everyone must read. If there are still some people who fail to read, it is a shortcoming of society.As for the professional division of labor after adulthood, it naturally has its inevitability and accidental factors. Generally speaking, the quality of the division of labor is directly proportional to the culture.The descendants of professors do not necessarily become professors, and the descendants of farmers can also become professors. However, the chances of the descendants of professors being in charge of the bullwhip are extremely low. People of all professions come out of Beijing Hutong Dazayuan, but it is rare to see anyone who goes to the countryside to plant crops. We can summarize this situation as a general law in the process of modernization.Of course, it would be best if a person could choose a career that he likes.There is no room for choice, and there is only so much to do for a living in a career that I don't like.I remember that when I was working, I was very troubled about choosing a career. Later, I chose mechanical repair. I thought that workers should deal with machines. After working as a mechanical repairer, I was full of joy and hard work. I was well-known in the geological team. When my superiors let me enter the office, I had nostalgia for the workshop filled with the smell of engine oil, diesel and iron filings.

When a person has been engaged in a certain profession for a long time, he will feel bored. As the saying goes, doing one job is boring.It is also a general rule that when there is an emotion of boredom, pain will gradually arise.After the pain, you have to continue working. After all, a job is a place where a person makes a living.However, it’s nothing more than my own suffering. If others show contempt for it, it would not be a wonderful thing. For example, when I was doing mechanical repairs, a little boy stood beside me and pointed at me and said to others: Look at this Stupid, thick and black guy, he looks like the real deal!I would fly into a rage and raise a 12-inch wrench to warn him.If I was still carrying big bales and working as a dock worker, I would stick out my old fist and beat him.Let's talk about it, what does my job have to do with you?That is to say, when I examine the depths of my personal heart, I often discriminate against other professionals. For example, I always disapprove of government officials, thinking that they are lip-smacking, talking but not practicing, and have no skills. They should be dismissed earlier If the reform continues, especially those propaganda cadres who specialize in praising leaders and criticizing the masses, they will simply be classified as parasites. It was not until I engaged in the profession of propaganda that I temporarily decided not to classify propaganda workers as parasites—but , After I became a wandering writer, I felt that propaganda workers should be classified as parasites.

It is an objective fact in general that what career you are engaged in, whether you choose actively or passively accept it, whether you like it or dissatisfy it, other people's irresponsible remarks will only make people disgusted and angry.In Chinese society, many people respect scientists, professors, doctors, entertainers, officials, etc. There is nothing wrong with that. If you respect toilet cleaners, people will say you have no ambition.Conversely, if you despise toilet cleaners, street cleaners, or even farmers who grow food, people will not say that you have no ambition.But this is wrong, needless to say, it is just a profession, in terms of personality, a governor and a toilet cleaner are equal, and the rights and obligations of being a person are the same. Work efforts should be generally respected, praised and rewarded by the society.Although the social reality makes this kind of equality far from being realized, it can only be said that the transformation of the social and cultural environment has a long way to go.

The Federation of French Butchers (French Federation of Butchers) has recently taken a series of measures to justify the name of the industry. The leaders of the Federation of French Butchers believe that butchers are not bad people. It is inappropriate for the news media to often refer to murderers and war criminals as butchers. Hitler , Mussolini and Tojo Hideki are also inappropriate to call them butchers!Real butchers, they are good people, butchers are engaged in a very legitimate profession that should be respected by people.Butchers slaughter animals to provide meat for human’s peaceful and happy life, just like planting food and brewing wine. When you and your family enjoy the delicious taste of steak, there is a contribution from the butcher.The profession of a butcher has nothing to do with brutal murders, murders, and other violence.They felt that the misuse of the word butcher was doing them a disservice, and set out to select words to provide to the press so that the press would no longer use the word butcher when reporting homicides and murders.I think the feelings and measures of the Fatu Federation are legitimate and reasonable. It is wrong to call a murderer a butcher indiscriminately. A person who has worked to provide meat for human beings is always associated with criminals, which makes people feel bad. Think, we are butchers and good people, or in other words, this is just a professional division of labor, just a job.

The Fatulian is not just looking for trouble, on the contrary, the butcher wants to describe his animal under the knife in the article like this: After the pig was stabbed in the neck, it howled like a reporter—the reporter didn’t even see it. will be very comfortable.It is not always appropriate to use a professional title to express a certain event or behavior.Of course, this phenomenon is not limited to France, and it is no exception in China. Discrimination against a certain profession can be found in the treasure house of traditional culture, and it can also be found in the modern kit.In the past, actors were called actors, which is of course not good; in the past, there was a saying, "Good iron does not nail nails, and a good man does not serve as a soldier." Being a soldier is a major matter for protecting the family and the country. Why do good men not serve as soldiers? ?Fear of death is also.Based on the allusion that a poor man loses his horse, how can he know that he is not a blessing? This kind of discrimination against soldiers is actually a side note to the philosophy of greed for life.A craftsman is a kind of person who lacks aura, wisdom and stupidity in the pen of a literati. To say that a certain painter's painting is not good is not to say that it is not good, but to say that it is full of craftsmanship. This painter is not a painter, but a painter.Adding the word "craftsman" to any occupation is guaranteed to be derogatory, and at least it is also a kind of contempt, such as teacher, barber, writer and so on.Although you say that you still have ingenuity and scientific masters, you obviously can't compete with the former.Craftsmen in the old days were generally of the following types: carpenters, masons, blacksmiths, seamstresses, watchmakers—bad painters or other craftsmen.This equation is more or less professionally discriminatory. A craftsman is equivalent to a defective product in a certain industry, which I cannot accept.Luban is a craftsman, Zhan Tianyou is a craftsman, Huang Daopo is a craftsman, so of course Cai Lun is also a craftsman, but what an important role they have played in the process of human history!It can be seen that contempt for craftsmen is not a good tradition. Perhaps China's backwardness in science and industry in recent centuries has something to do with this tradition.I think that in a country, 80% of the smart people should be engaged in business, and 20% of the smart people should be playing with ideas, theories and arts.

Craftsmen cannot be on the stage in Chinese culture. Today, this is not the most important occupational discrimination. After more than a century of beating history in China, we know that science and engineering are of great practical significance. Today, the most prevalent occupational discrimination has turned to farmers. It is manifested in the treatment of farmers. use of this term.Expressions like "we have to overcome peasant consciousness" and "they are still full of small peasant ideas" can be said to be everywhere in the press, until they enter official documents.I have always wanted to ask, what kind of consciousness is "peasant consciousness"?Narrow-minded, paranoid, conservative, ignorant, uneducated, short-sighted, a little rich?I feel like I'm putting everything in there, which is definitely not right.Farmers refer to a professional group engaged in agricultural labor. There are at least 800 million people engaged in agricultural labor in China. Such a large social group is called farmers. Of course, many of them have "farmer consciousness", just like many other groups. It's normal for people to have a "peasant consciousness".Farmers have this kind of "peasant consciousness", but they also have many good qualities. Therefore, it is wrong to say that backwardness is peasant consciousness, and those who are not backward are not called peasant consciousness. It is unfair and implies serious discrimination.

Artisans and farmers are not favored. These two groups closely related to material life cannot be on the cultural stage. Another group related to material life is even worse. They are businessmen.Profitable businessmen, businessmen without profiteers, businessman's stench of copper, etc., for them, this is not discrimination, but contempt. This kind of cultural mentality is also undesirable. It's a little bit more ruthless, because not all businessmen are profiteers, and there are also businessmen who are not profiteers.The profession of merchants is specific for them to buy things cheaper and sell them more expensive. We may prefer merchants to buy things more expensive and sell them cheaper. If we ask merchants to do this, then we are profiteers up.In connection with the protest of the Fa Tulian, Chinese butchers do not seem to have a good image in the writings of literati, except for the person of Baoding.