Saw this PBS documentary "Last Train Home about migrant workers in China coming home for the New Year. Known as the Chunyun period, or Spring Festival Rush, it refers to the time around Chinese New Year when millions of migrant workers and students leave the cities of China to return home for festivities. During this period, upwards of 120 million people migrate home on extremely crowded trains and planes which they sometimes must wait days in order to board. Crazy scene at 1:02:22 onwards http://video.pbs.org/video/2145998633 The daugher Qin was being disrespectful, back chatting and cursed her father and all heck broke loose between the two of them. As a matter of fact she just upped and left after this incident and moved to the big city and has not been in contact with her family She seems to have a lot of animosity for being raised with her parents away while she was left along with her brother in the care of their grandmother. Also she seems to be strongly influenced by the modern ideals in a changing China. The director of the film had these remarks on her. "I last saw Qin earlier this year in Beijing. She traveled to another province to find work after our filming. She's a very typical young-generation migrant. Unlike their parents' generation, they are more educated and want more. They are no longer satisfied with low-wage and repetitive-labor work, so they migrate to where they can have more opportunity and, perhaps, a more exciting life. Growing up, and now being a young woman, she has realized education will probably do her well in the long run. We helped her find a vocational school and she is now studying in Beijing. Sadly, Qin still can not forgive her parents for what they have done, and she doesn't want to call them."
It is, you can definitely see and feel the divide between the daughter and her parents generation in the approach to an industrializing China. The daughter seems hooked on the Western qualities of life, while the parents are still old school in their mentality.
This is why China is a powder keg even though most of the world dont realize it...the young are no longer wanting...but demanding. This mentality scares the older generation & the establishment.
