Being an International Studies/ Political Science major, I often find that almost all of my classes in a semester overlap in material or add upon each other. I am currently enrolled in an International Studies course that focuses on Global issues, today in this course we spent a significant amount of time talking about the trade war and how the problems of the trade war between China and the United States affect the entire international community. Though I will admit I do not have a ton of knowledge on the issues of the trade war, I have begun trying to research the issue more as well as staying more up to date with the issues. I found an article by CNBC about what some Chinese Citizens think about the trade war and Trump. Some citizens find the trade war to be “exhausting,” and they try to “tune out the day-to-day comments” made by Trump. The article gave off the overall tone that Chinese Citizens have found the trade war with the United States to be almost pointless and that they are tired of all of Trump’s daily attacks. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/03/china-finds-trump-perplexing-on-trade-war-china-tv-host-liu-xin.html
The attitude that this article portrayed the citizens of having is similar to some of the opinions in the short story “After Cowboy Chicken Came To Town.” In the short story, the citizens of China had a somewhat negative outlook on western culture. Although some of the characters were intrigued by the western culture, many characters found the culture to be almost rude, wasteful in ways and used ‘westerner’ as an insult. Although these cases are different, it gives off the same type of attitude of the United States, and it falls into the stereotype that Americans are sometimes given. I wonder if people from other parts of the globe genuinely see the United States in these ways and if the portrayal in the news and the book are accurate to life.