"Made in China"???

Why is it that cheap plastic toys are always from china? I often wondered that as a small boy. It seems like now-a-days every time you pick anything up that looks worth a whole five bucks, it's probably form China. Now I'm not trying to bash on the Chinese. They have all lot of good things going for them and think about all the money they get from being the country that makes everything! Just because we think a toy that's worth $1.50 is cheap here, they probably make it there for 3 cents and ship it for 1 cent each. That's quite a profit when your shipping billions per year.
So why is China of all countries the country that has an insanely high exporting rate? Well if you consider the fact that China has a population of however many million people in it, they have plenty of workers. Also if you think about historically this question goes back thousands of years. The silk roads went to China from Europe and ships were constantly trying to get over there to trade.
The biggest reason has got to be that China has always been just a little bit ahead of everyone else when it comes to technological advances. While soldiers in Europe were barbarously stabbing each other with swords the Chinese were playing with gunpowder and rockets. They also had an amazing system of tests to prove you were the best candidate to advance in society. That way only the best of the best were in charge of the country. Whereas in Europe the strongest (which means that they most likely aren't the smartest of people) took charge of surrounding peoples and their land.
Although, the Chinese were always conquered easily, and sometimes difficultly, but in the end were taken over all the same. The British took China over and that's what pretty much started China being a "Work" country.
That makes one think "What if history would have been different?" What if China had oppressed and made the British "work people." Would the U.S. even exist? Would all the stickers on plastic products say "Made in England"?????????

Old Folks????

Today I went to a care center to sing to some elderly poeple and bring their hopes up. I realized as i was driving over there that i was thinking to my self that i really didnt want to d this because talking to the old people would be really awkward and uncomfortable. Then i thjought thats exactly why i should do it, because it would bring me out of my comfort bubbnle and I;d be doing something new. I told myself that i would just go in there with a good attitude and have a good time. As i was walking through the halls of the care center i was asking myself why i had automatically not wanted to go when i heard we were going to sing toi the elderly. Its because of the sterotype that elderly people get. People think it will be uncomfortable becuase the old person will just ramble on and tell you the same story about how their brother died in WW2 like seven hundred times. In movies they always show old people as stupid ignorant people that have no idea whats going on around them. But thats really not the case, I had quite a talk with an elderly lady aboiut her life story and it was SO interesting and just cool to sit and listen to her. I think I'm gonna start going regularly to talk and sing with all my friends down there.