There's no culture, no education, no tradition, no shame. What are we left?
The word "Tuhao" has been popular in China for a long time, and netizens like to call those who spend generously and lavishly "Tuhao."
However, we rarely see foreign media use similar statements, when they describe people with a prominent family history.
Most of them use the word aristocratic (noble).
What is the difference between "rich" and "aristocratic"?
They are also very rich, driving luxury cars, living in luxury homes, access to luxury high-end occasions, why are some people called "aristocrats", and some people can only be called "tuhao"?
Yesterday, a startling scandal broke out in the United States from the other side of the ocean, may give us the answer.
01, there were thousands of money to buy horse bones in ancient times, and now they bribed to Stanford.
At noon Beijing time yesterday, many American media, such as the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, reported that the Chinese family, which had paid the most, had shocked the United States in the fraud of enrollment at well-known colleges and universities. The background has been investigated.
Zhao Tao, chairman of step Pharmaceutical Company, a well-known listed company of traditional Chinese medicine in China, (this person is not small, we will pick it up later)
Yusi "Molly" Zhao), opened the back door to Stanford for her daughter Zhao Yusi at a high price of $6.5 million (43 million yuan).
This is by far the largest amount of money involved in the fraud of college enrolment in the United States.
I am afraid that the influence of this case will not be eliminated in the coming decades.
First, because it involves sacred institutions in the minds of Americans, and even students around the world-including, but not limited to, Stanford, Yale, and so on.
Not only has the reputation of a century-old school been destroyed, but the aftermath is bound to cause distrust of the entire education system in the United States, and more corruption may be involved in the future.
Second, it is also more important, that this matter has completely picked up the Chinese rich man's coat, exposed the nature of the earth, will become the future Americans, even the people of the world's laughing handle.
Why? Let's analyze it step by step.
First of all, the top universities in the United States have revealed that bribery is supposed to be the most affected by the children of the top officials in their own country, but as soon as the news comes out, it is found that this is not the case at all. Those who spend the most money on cheating schools are not those who have money and power in their own countries, but families from China who are thousands of miles away!
This is good, Chinese (Chinese) made headlines all over the world, once again "glorious fame all over the world."
Second, it sends two signals to the world:
First, the Chinese do not trust their own country, whether it is milk powder or education, all have to spend a lot of money to buy in other countries.
Second, the Chinese have money, but no knowledge, no brain to spend money, typical nouveau riche, Tuhao, easy to be deceived.
You may think, I say that, a little too much, after all, money is valuable, the price of children and girls is higher. Poor parents in the world, chairman Zhao has money, he is willing to spend, this editor of my ass?
Indeed, Zhao Tao, chairman of step Pharmacy, spent $6.5 million as much as we ordinary people spent 65000 yuan at best. After all, he is too rich.
According to public information, Zhao Siyu's father, Zhao Tao, born in 1966, is a Singaporean national with a bachelor's degree from Xi'an Medical University and an (Fordham University) MBA from Fotamo University.
In addition to serving as chairman of step Pharmaceutical, Chairman of Air Business School, Vice President of Chinese overseas Chinese Investment Enterprise Association, Chairman of Science and Technology Innovation Committee of China overseas Chinese Business Association and other social positions.
Zhao Tao's main business is: Shandong step Pharmaceutical Company belongs to the production industry of proprietary Chinese medicine, mainly engaged in the research and development, production and marketing of Chinese patent medicine, the main products involved in the field of traditional Chinese patent medicine for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. At the same time, it also covers other fields such as gynecological medicine.
The Zhao Tao family is a frequent visitor to Hurun's rich list, ranking 82 in 2018, with a total value of 32 billion yuan.
In 2017, he also took a photo with U.S. President Donald Trump, representing a delegation of Chinese entrepreneurs at Trump's reception dinner.
Zhao Tao is rich, that is really rich, but why should I say he is Tuhao?
In fact, the reason is very simple, that is, his "education" both cognitive level and cognitive ability, is too simple.
02, the Education of Tuhao and the Education of aristocrats
Before we talk about Zhao Tao, let's see how real aristocrats raise children.
Far away, let's take a look at the equally rich Trump family.
Trump used to be the king of New York real estate, with assets worth $10 billion. But Ivanka never had a chance to be wayward Huohui money, and her parents agreed from an early age: "never let her want the wind, the rain!"
This is the "Kengwa" model, resulting in Ivanka from an early age only just the right education and living expenses.
She worked part-time to buy extra things, and she had worked part-time as a model in high school to earn enough money to buy what she wanted. With his excellent figure and appearance, he became a cover girl at the age of 17!
After graduating from college, instead of directly entering her father's real estate company, she chose to go to other real estate companies as a grass-roots employee. Four years later, she became vice president of Trump real estate with a wealth of real estate experience. She was 24 years old that year.
Today she has a lot of successful status, vice president of the company, White House adviser, candidate for president of the World Bank, founder of charity, etc., but she is still able to attend on all kinds of occasions.
Joining Apple CEO Cook in a child-funded event shows that she really likes the kids.
At the White House's participation in the parliament announcement, in the face of these Secretary of State Ivanka did not fall behind.
When giving a speech is also full of confidence, unscripted is not a word.
Many Americans don't like Trump, but most admit that Trump does have a way of educating his children.
And what about Zhao Tao? Through bribery and cheating to help his daughter get Stanford's education, then this education to his precious daughter Zhao Yusi, do not know whether it is halo or shame?
At the very least, this is tantamount to telling their daughter that the world does not need to work hard, just fake it.
According to reports, after being admitted to Stanford, Zhao Yusi made a self-made live broadcast, on Douyu and claimed to be the "college entrance examination number one in the United States" when promoting it.
When netizens asked how to prepare for exams and documents, Yusi Zhao did not share any practical information, mainly to "stick to the dream, do not give up, set goals and strive hard" and other chicken soup.
To Stanford for what? In a big sense, it is to achieve a better world outlook and cognitive level.
If what you learned from Stanford is that you can get it without hard work, you can take shortcuts without hard work, and you can succeed without honesty. Then Zhao Tao spent $6.5 million on this kind of education for his daughter. Does it really make sense?
The richest people in China have educated such a rich second generation, so what hope does our nation have?!
03, the rich in China are becoming jokes all over the world
What is an aristocrat? Driving a limousine, living in a big villa, with a lot of money?
In fact, "rich" is not naturally equal to "expensive", rich will not automatically improve moral and cognitive standards, but also may make a person an arrogant and vulgar nouveau riche.
The real nobility lies not only in the amount of wealth, but in the synthesis of a series of temperament and personal accomplishment, including knowledge, ability, vision and responsibility.
But the rich in China, however, are completely unaware of this.
They would rather burn money abroad than think about saving it, saving it for their children, setting up educational funds to learn traditional culture and handicrafts. It is better to spend tens of thousands of dollars to send your children to take part in some deceptive overseas interactions than to take them to see the great rivers and mountains of the motherland and to know their ancestors and civilizations first.
It is better to spend a lot of money and rely on cheating to send your children to American universities rather than let them study hard and study at Tsinghua Peking University, where China goes out of the aristocrats.
Have the rich in China ever thought that children should first learn the essence of Chinese culture calligraphy, write Chinese characters clearly, understand them, and then read English and take CET-8. Chinese rich people tend to be herons, send their children to learn piano, learn violin, but do not want children to listen to Guqin first, learn about Kunqu Opera, Shadow, Qin cavity, Beijing Opera. When can the children, under the leadership of the school organization, first go for a walk in the heaven of Tiibet, take a look at the customs and customs of Xinjiang, go to Hulunbeir League in Inner Mongolia, and find out how our ancestors lived and how they came from? First of all, to understand the breadth and depth of our own motherland? Our next generation, even their own culture does not understand, how can they be confident and love their own nation?
Chinese tycoons, how your money is spent, is your freedom and rights.
But can it make sense? More advanced flowers? Spend it on something meaningful?
A Cartier gold watch can feed countless orphans and children who don't go to school.
A Louis Vuitton bag can pick up countless mother's cellars.
A Herm è s, you can let a Yushu and Wenchuan orphans live for several years.
A Rolls Royce can help my traditional craftsmen start countless workshops and small craftsmanship workshops.
We are happy that the Chinese are rich.
But so spend money, so profligate, but let people look down on, not only others look down on, even our own self-confidence!
Dignity is not something you can buy with money.
Money is not used to show off.
There's no culture, no education, no tradition, no shame. What are we left?
When you're not rich or rich, you're from Gottingen, Columbia, Oxford and Cambridge. And when the more famous university professor in the world talks about Lao Zi Zhuang Zi Confucius and the ancient Chinese magnanimity, he dare not despise you in half, because he does not know Lao Zhuang's realm and heart better than you.
Because you have your own culture.
Even if you are rich and hostile, you do not know where you come from, where you are going, you are uneducated, you have no culture, you have no knowledge or even no basic dignity, and you are nothing! Not only do others despise you, but even compatriots look down on you.
Don't forget, there is a saying in the Book of changes: "the house of good is bound to be jubilant, and the house of bad is bound to suffer."
Don't you see how many rich businessmen have gone up and down in the past 40 years, some have been abandoned, some have gone bankrupt, some have been jailed and some have been shot. When he lived, he did not walk the way of literati, did not look for breeding in his bones, thought that wealth could benefit his children and grandchildren, but did not want them to pick up food in the garbage after two generations.
If you want to hold on to the profit and protect Tai, you cannot learn from Zhao Tao. Instead, you should pursue the "expensive" of the soul after being "rich": knowing your conscience, being honest and shameful, accumulating good deeds, living cleanly, living gracefully, and living with dignity. Brand the word "self-cultivation" in the bone.
Let your children know how to be careful, how to avoid evil, and how to practice good things. I don't know how many times more important it is to go to Stanford than to go to Stanford.