Martial arts shows? American re-runs? Chinese talk shows?
NOPE, it is ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
What is hot on Chinese TV is a show called Ying Zai Zhongguo or Win In China - a blend between a collegiate business plan competition, Survivor and The Apprentice.
And the payoff for the winner is not some lackey job with Donald Trump. It is $1.3 million in start-up capital to start their own company. By contrast the MIT Business Plan competition winner gets a measly $100,000. The Communists understand it takes more capital these days to launch an entrepreneurial venture, I guess.
Some of the finalists of the first season of Win In China, winnowed down from an initial 3,000 entrepreneurial business plans.
Quite a few Americans, including several venture capitalists, are involved in Win In China - a few of their comments (only slightly scripted, but no gun to their heads), including the CEO of NASDAQ, are HERE
The show airs on CCTV - the Communist controlled television. Here's how several contestants and broadcast officials describe the goal of Win IN China:
“Chinese culture does not facilitate creativity as much as we need.... the show will introduce the “positive power” of entrepreneurship."
Contestant Ms. Zhou said she hoped potential entrepreneurs would learn the importance of both perseverance and passion.
“After the final episode, a friend called and said: ‘I have to quit my work unit and my company! I have to be an entrepreneur, because I want a new life.’”
June 16, 2008 To: letters@latimes.com
Mitchell Landsberg
Robert Lopez
Subject: Today's, June 16, 2008 latimes: Two Million Minutes Of Students' Lives (and) A Plague Of Illegal Dumping
These two articles on seemingly different subjects are, nevertheless, related by consequences of war although different initial conditions. To begin with, Afro-American poverty remains an unabating environment of ignorance, 'poor studentship' and trash -add now to that, cheap immigrant labor.
That said, the two World Wars and the Korean and Vietnam wars were followed by two distinctly different economic environments -those of the relatively unaffected government and infrastructure of forward-looking and developing, media-rich United States as opposed to the 'reconstructing' governments and economies of all other principal nations.
The greater population of the U.S., consequently, has become completely 'spoiled by success' with excesses and continuing turn-overs of virtually everything -housing, clothing, obesity-generating food, SUV's, computers, sports, entertainment, cell-phones, games, you name it -'easy come, easy go' (ergo trash), and all other nations of the world 'wannabe' just like us! So how do those countries do it? They already know how to live by traditionally hardened routines, so all they have to do is add to that what learning is necessary to 'get there' -learning 'We don't have to do'! The man on the street doesn't even know how to read anymore.
Perry Bezanis 811 W 29th St
San Pedro CA 90731
(310) 833 8231 perryb@condition.org
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The Inevitabilities of Human Deliberative Capability
Posted by: Perry Bezanis | June 16, 2008 at 12:51 PM