Brief Summary Of Kelsey's Accomplishment In China

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In this part Kelsey Timmerman finds himself in China in a flip-flop factory where Tevas are made. At first Kelsey finds an ally and that alley intersects with another alley and that's where he posted up asking people if they manufactured Tevas. The people either gave a judging stare from a distance or simply ignored him, however he ended up getting the address to the factory after someone slipped up. He ends up meeting a married couple who kind of accepts Kelsey and as Kelsey is heading back to their place he began to realize that it’s impossible to keep track of where he is and going because everything looks the same. Dewan 36, and Zhu Chun 31 live in a studio type place which is as wide as the door. Kelsey began to ask them about their place of work and they told him that they …show more content…
While he was fishing he goes into detail that the Chinese government built this dam and it was looked at as one of the greatest accomplishments. However, it has now relocated five million people. The government did this? The Chinese government again looks at this as an enormous accomplishment. If you call relocating five million people an accomplishment, then I assume you need to see someone about that. All these people are likely to suffer in one way or another, and you're telling them they are forced to move? On top of all this the water quality has declined since the dam was built because it cuts off the natural water flow. So now you have people getting sick while their houses are under twenty feet of mercy water. If the government believed in the Buddhist way they would have showed more Bodhisatta (compassion). With the dam being built as well as two animal species are almost or already extinct by now. How is one spouse to free themselves of something of this nature? One can only suffer so much before they just self destruct, and how much can someone take is the real question

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