I get a lot of questions from home about communism and how that plays into my daily life here. Besides editing blatant propaganda from 8:30-5:30 M-F, I hadn't really noticed it much.
But today I had a pretty hilarious, yet jarring moment. An employee in the H.R. department asked me for my phone number and I gave it to him, but when I asked why he wanted it, he replied: "The leader needs it in case he has to contact you."
The leader?! I don't think it gets more communist than that. At first I thought to myself, "Does he mean Hu Jintao himself will be giving me orders?" But no, it's apparently a common way to refer to one's boss here.
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err...maybe something got lost in translation?
Also, my favorite part of communism in China was paying for everything in bills with Mao's face on it
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