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IAH 204: Asia and the WorldSpring 2015: Professor KeithPaper #2Due date: Thursday, 4/2, in class, in hard copy.Question:Imagine that How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia is the only book you’ve ever read about the country where the novel takes place. The country is unnamed in the novel, so call it “Youland.” A friend is about to visit Youland, they know you’ve read this book, so they ask you to tell them about it. Write a 5-page introduction to Youland for your friend to read on the plane.Formal Guidelines:The paper should be 5 pages, double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins. No title, cover page, or bibliography are necessary, and please do not restate the question at the top of the paper.When citing from the book, which you should do, please do not use conventional footnotes. Instead, simply place the page number for the passage you are quoting in parentheses. The page number should come from the original pagination and not the page number in the course pack.Example: “Your city is not laid out as a single-celled organism, with a wealthy nucleus surrounded by an ooze of slums” (20).Please note that the parentheses come after the quotation, but before the punctuation mark ending the sentence or the phrase (comma, semicolon, colon, period, etc.).IMPORTANT NOTE: you’ll probably use the main character’s life and experiences as your main example s in the description of “Youland.” But because this novel is written in the second person, you might find it difficult to refer to the character in the third person. When describing the character, refer to him as “Mr. You.” This will avoid confusion, espe cially in constructions like the possessive (it’ll be “Mr. You’s life” instead of “your life.”)Jiabao WenA47013749IAH 204-008, Paper 2Dear friend,I have heard you are going to travel Youland. I would probably say this is going to be an exciting trip, since Youland is utterly different from United States in many aspects. Reading the book “how to get filthy rich in rising Asia” allows me experiencing the scenes of an Islamic country with its unique ethics. As more places you travel in Youland, you will not only see how people in different social groups live together, but also witness the characteristics of social stability in such a place filled with terrorism and lawlessness which you could not imagine in America. As many other developing countries, Youland does not seem to have a set of rules to regulate the operation of society. However, I think complex social network and Islamic ethic replace its governance to enable Youland continuously develop instead of sliding into chaos. In this letter, I would like to tell you Mr. You‟s experiences, to demonstrate the feature of this place.Through the reading, my first impression is that Youland has poor governance combined with other social unrest elements. Such phenomenon is derived from corruption, unfairness and violence. Initially, corruption is evident in the entire society, which is not limited in social groups. On the one hand, common citizens are busy with various kinds of corruption. For example, Mr. You‟s primary school teacher wishes to be better off through utilization of power as a meter reader. “and what is more important,have greater opportunity for corruption and are hence both better off and held in higher regard by society”(23). On the other hand, corruption is also popular among officials and businessmen, which leads to a situation of interdependence. “Entrepreneurship in the barbaric wastes furthest from state power is a fraught endeavor, a constant battle, a case of kill or be killed, with little guarantee of success”(140). More specifically, after Mr. You launches his bottled water business, Befriend a bureaucrat is going to be indispensible. When he intends to become a municipal vendor, official‟s approval authorizes his plan. Their conversation‟s explicitness indirectly exposes the popularity of corruption. “…All our quantifiable requirements. It is my duty to ensure our unquantifiable requirements are also met. Reputational requirements, for example.‟ …Our reputation is that we‟re friendly.‟ …Good.‟”(142). Throughout their conversation, we can easily notice the sense of corruption not only exist in people‟s life and work, but also fills in their hearts. Theoretically, poverty and injustice is the root of corruption. You are also going to see the inequality and unfairness of wealth distribution in Youland.Unfairness among people is initially demonstrated from the incredible gap between the rich and the poor. Unlike most developed nations, such inequality is magnified in an exaggerative way. Some officials in high positions are extremely powerful to some extent, seemingly no constraints in the law, whereas many common citizens with no education hardly maintain their safety and dignity. The key determinant of your fate is where you are born. Persons who are born in rural areas are keen on migration into urbanareas, even though many of them are incapable to overcome financial barrier. For instance, Mr. You‟s parents argue whether or not undertake the rural-urban migration. Mr. You‟s mother believes her husband earn a fair salary and get rid of poverty, while Mr. You‟s father claims his salary makes him a poor man in the city. “Moving to the city is the first step to getting filthy rich in rising Asia”(15), so many farmers move into metropolitans leading to cities‟expansions despite the economic burdens they bear. However, being an urban resident is obviously inadequate to have a high living standard in Youland, since Mr. You‟s family are always in lack of proteins in the dinner table. From this point onwards, obtaining education and rampant nepotism are also vitally important, as Mr. You‟s father realizes his employer, “who were the world a festival of unarmed banditry, he would have beaten, bound, and relieved of their possessions in a few quick minutes”(59), benefit from these two things he lacks. Therefore, the permission to enter into Youland‟s upper class also depends on your family background and the opportunity to get educated, whilst most citizens do not possess either of them.Unfairness of life in Youland, as a country with no certain regulation and legislation, leads to a series of violence as well. Similarly with corruption, violence is universal in Youland and not the privilege of those who are powerful. Mr. You‟s primary school teacher is openly abusive his pupils. “You, as one of the brightest students, have drawn some of the most severe punishment”(22). This teacher‟s torture is simply out of abnormal sense of satisfaction, while others applying violence are for certain purposes.Moreover, as Mr. You‟s business is gradually blooming, he is threatened and given an ultimatum. If he do not exit the bottled water business, he will be likely assassinated by the killer. “So you are frightened, but nor only frightened, you are also angry, seethingly furious”(124). The similar human right violation happened in Mr. You is uncommon in country with regular legal system.As far as I concerned, there are multiple social problems sticking to Youland. Thus, many citizens hardly retain their dignities, safeties and other basic personal rights. However, most people also form a social network in this culture to assist each other there. Mr. You and his family benefits from such network when he is young, and he and his wife also contribute to others after being rich. Based on my understanding, the Youland social network of assistance could be classified into different categories. Some kinds of assistances are because of unbreakable family bonds, while benevolences also arise from the rich to help someone unrelated them. When Mr. You are in the university, Mr. You‟s mother has a cancer, and his family cannot afford the surgical charge. Mr. You‟s father‟s matriarch agrees with Mr. You‟s father sponsoring his wife‟s surgery, which is a figure greater than his annual salary. Mr. You‟s father shows great appreciation towards his employer. “He bows at the neck to her, again and again, a gesture like a nervous tic. You have not seen him in the presence of one of his employers since you were a child”(65). Meanwhile, Mr. You‟s college organization senior grants Mr. You‟s mother a referral in the clinic for free. On the other hand, after Mr. You starts the bottle water business, he hasa better financial ability, and employs his clansmen to improve their living conditions. “The three of you eat together in fellowship, chatting among yourselves like siblings, which in a way you are, since these two are your clansmen, distant relatives bound by blood, and so yes, like siblings, except of course that when you tell these siblings to finish quickly, they must and do obey”(102). Because of the Islamic ethics, the awareness of benevolence influence Youland people. To some extent, this virtue might greatly alleviate social conflict and generate warmth in the society.Finally, I would elect my feelings toward Youland, and some suggestions in your journey. Because this country is filled with many social unrest elements, and no certain plan on its development and regulations, you would actually see something exciting and surprising. In comparison with other many western countries, its unique social network system and importance of family bonds are really going to give you an engraving impression. I hope you get involved in Youland group, and experience the wonderful culture and atmosphere.。