With a refrigerator, it becomes easier to store foods. But without it, you can live just the same. If you think refrigerator is a necessity, then you don't know how to live just like Americans and Europeans don't know how to live.
The lives of Chinese, under normal circumstances, do not require fridges. My relatives in the countryside of Guangdong: almost none of them have fridges at home.
In 2006, I was on a farming assistance trip to Dan Zhou Prefecture of Hainan Province. Hainan was a moist place, and its people's eating habits are similar to Guangdong: they care a lot about eating fresh food. I noticed that people in Hainan don't use fridges. On average of 1000 farming families, it's hard to find a single one with fridges at home. Many of those families are rich, and drive BMW's, yet they don't care to buy a fridge. If you try to sell a fridge amongst the farmers of Hainan, you probably will end up with 0 sales. The only fridge in that entire Prefecture was a small one in a grocery store, used for selling ice creams.
My landlord in Flushing Queens provided me with a fridge, and it's included in my rent. In my 10 years of living here, I never once found a use for it.
Of course, as a foreign luxury fashion item, fridges are slowly seeing some market in Chinese countryside. For exmaple, when I visited a poor farmer village in the south of Shanxi province, I saw a poor peasant family having a fridge at home. But when I opened it ,it's fairly empty inside. I realized they use it as a decorative furniture, not for practical use.
Of course these days in most cities in China, fridges are a necessity. That is another sign of the typical 'everything is better form the West' mentality, what I call 'spiritual slave' mentality of the Chinese.
When I took a Biology class in America, the textbook says fridges are popular in America, and as a result, Americans' stomach illnesses have drastically decreased.
The 'decreasing stomach ilness' function of fridges only apply to America and European countries, where eating habits and commerce are highly undeveloped. Based on my observation of regular Americans' diets, food storage methods and eating habits, their quality of life in terms of food is behind that of the Shang Dynasty (~1500 BC) in China. Ther commerce and transportation in America are so undeveloped such that people have no choice but buy 1 months' worth of food and store it at home in their fridge.
My landlord gave me a fridge and is included in the rent, yet in my 10 years living here it remains empty.
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Submitted August 22, 2015 at 07:48PM by DarkSkyKnight http://ift.tt/1fy0sAX copypasta
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