Chapter 22 22. The simplicity and directness of the Americans, and the cleverness of the Chinese

Maybe some friends who know the United States will tell you how honest, direct and simple Americans are. Well, your friends may also tell you that it is very easy for Chinese people to earn the first pot of gold by virtue of their cleverness and hard work when they come to the United States, but it is much more difficult to make big money than Americans. The reason is simple. Although American businessmen are simple, they understand the complexity of the Chinese people very well. They tend to be more wary of the Chinese when doing business, because they think the Chinese are too smart and think that many Chinese are very bad at doing business. To be honest, I am afraid of dealing with Chinese businessmen.But if they deal with Chinese businessmen for a few years without any problems, they will let their guard down again...

In other words, it is very difficult for a Chinese businessman to enter the circle of American businessmen at the beginning, but once you get in, you will find that doing business with them is very simple and quick. On the other hand, they will also pay more attention to the development of long-term interests than the Chinese.For example, many Chinese people in the United States only need to earn 10,000 US dollars a month, which is enough, but the thinking of American businessmen is that if I don’t do it, I will earn more than a dozen dollars a month if I want to do it. million dollars. I don’t know if this is due to the difference in educational background, or because people of different races have different brain structures. If according to the old Chinese saying, great wisdom is "if stupid", then what is small cleverness, "mentally retarded"?

Wen Jiajia thinks that she is quite a smart woman, otherwise Lao Zhong would not be caught by her.Of course, female sex also occupies a large part of Lao Zhong and her affairs. It can be seen from this that it is far from enough for a woman to be smart, and she must be good at combining intelligence and femininity perfectly. Wen Jiajia just knew a girlfriend who was too smart but not pretty.But she is smart and doesn't know how to pretend to be confused, so she is still tired of being smart and has not been able to get a boyfriend. Wen Jiajia is very worried that this girlfriend will die alone, but this friend is in turn worried that Wen Jiajia will one day be ruined by her own cleverness.

Obviously, everyone is a bit full and has nothing to do. After coming to the United States, Wen Jiajia discovered that to live in China, you have to use your cleverness. It is an essential survival skill, and if you lack it, you will be stupid. But in the United States, there is another way to interpret the cleverness of the Chinese. Mr. Wang, a friend recommended by Lili, has a deep understanding of the cleverness of the Chinese and the honesty of the Americans. Mr. Wang's credit in the United States has always been good, so that his American business partners often send goods worth tens of thousands of dollars to Mr. Wang without getting a penny of payment.

But if the same thing is put on Chinese partners, it is absolutely impossible to be so relieved.Although people rely on credit to walk in the United States, Chinese and Asians will first feel that people's hearts are unpredictable and virtual credit is unreliable. However, when Mr. Wang has a headache for his Chinese business partners, he can't help but feel helpless for his American employees. Compared with the Chinese, Americans are surprisingly lazy! Once, Mr. Wang's company came to a batch of accessories and urgently needed a few thick men to help carry them, so he found two black people and a Mexican-American old beauty, and promised to give them forty dollars each Knife.This is a very high reward, so the three of them agreed quickly.

But what made Mr. Wang dumbfounded was that one of the old blacks left the stall after only half of the move. Mr. Wang was very surprised and asked him the reason. The old black said: "I will move here, you will give me ten yuan, and I don't want the remaining thirty yuan." Old Hei's thinking is that with this ten yuan, it is enough for him to eat and drink for a day, and whoever wants to earn the remaining thirty yuan can earn it. As for tomorrow's expenses, we will talk about it tomorrow. Mr. Wang was so angry that he couldn't believe Lao Hei's thinking, and he couldn't believe that he was able to happily run away with a ten-dollar knife.If this matter were placed on some smart Chinese people, it would never happen.

But compared to this old black, there is a more talented old Mo (Mexican) employee in Mr. Wang's company. This old Mo is diligent and quick in his work, with high quality and easy to get along with. He always completes the work assigned to him by Mr. Wang with excellence. But Mr. Wang is very afraid of paying his salary... Because this old Mo will definitely not come to work the day after he gets his salary.Every time he gets his salary, he will happily find a tavern and drink all night, and he will inevitably be too hangover to get up the next day. Mr. Wang has talked to this old Mo several times, but he will never change this problem. Even if Mr. Wang threatens to "fire" him, he will never change his mind.

Old Mo's reason is very good: "I don't feel comfortable without drinking when I get paid." And Mr. Wang always looks at his ability to work better than others, and always tolerates this. Mr. Wang also said that Americans never work overtime and leave work when the time comes. Even if the work is not finished, they will put it aside and come back to do it the next day.But the strange thing is that overall, the work efficiency of Americans is much higher than that of Chinese who are used to working overtime. It seems that Clever finally lost out to "rational work".

But when Wen Jiajia heard this statement, her reaction was completely different. She looked at Frank and asked, "Since you don't work overtime in the United States, why were you late the first time you drove to pick me up?" Frank was completely defeated by Wen Jiajia's vengeance. He was about to open his mouth to explain, but Wen Jiajia robbed him and said, "Forget it. Come on, please forgive me!" Frank opened his mouth, then closed it again. He decided that in the future, he would listen to Wen Jiajia's unreasonable words from one ear to the other and listen selectively.

Before leaving the restaurant of Wang and his wife, Wen Jiajia dug out a handful of cash from his pocket to pay the bill, and Frank turned sideways to block the eyes of the beauties. Wen Jiajia didn't take it seriously: "It's okay, it's okay, they dare to rob it in broad daylight?" Frank said: "It's better to be careful. Americans even use credit cards to buy bottles of mineral water, unlike Chinese people who have to carry cash everywhere, so in the United States, thieves like to find Chinese people." "Oh... so, Americans are not stupid." Wen Jiajia looked around, then picked up the credit card and gestured to Frank: "...Hey, after that, the money I give you will also be Can I swipe my card?"

Frank: "..."