control over the environment

It Depends on You ?

“In Zootopia, anyone could be anything”, said Judy Hopps the leading actor in the latest popular cartoon in America. I think it can be interpreted as “In America, anyone could be anything”, which reveals one of the American values the personal control over the environment. In China, we have completely different attitudes. This passage will make a meaningful comparison behind the phenomena and personally speaking, the environment plays an important role in forming the character that faced the environment.

America has the soil of freedom and strong belief that “every single individual should have control over whatever in the environment might potentially affect him or her“said L. Robert Kohls, the writer of the passage The Values Americans Live By, so what happen depends mostly on yourself. This can also be a part of the American Dream. I have already know about the American dream from American movies. In the movie, The Pursuit of Happiness, although Chris Gardner has difficulties in his work and fails in his marriage, he doesn’t give up and keeps working hard to fulfill his dream, and finally he succeeds. And in the movie, The Martian, Mark Watney was left on the Mars and got heavy injuries. I can’t image how, but he performed, a surgery on himself and developed a land of plants, using his knowledge of botany. Surprisingly, he could live on the Mars by himself and he absolutely succeeded in controlling the environment.

In China, your own issues are not only depended on you, so we treat it seriously. The individual here should make his/her effort under the expectation concerned with national goals which called Chinese dream. It seems that Chinese bear some heavy burdens whenever making decisions, and they cannot focus on the issue itself attentively. Many officers in ancient China had a tradition that they should retreat back to nature and live in a small village that nobody knew when they were opposed by the leaders or someone that had huge power to affect the politics. My father works in the government but not the biggest leader, so his suggestion is nearly impossible to be implemented and sometimes he doesn’t dare to show his capability in the field of his work because the leader don’t like his subordinates being more outstanding than him. Nowadays, many businessmen have difficulties in starting their business, because there are irrational rules to follow.

From my aspect, it is mainly because of the different length of history. With a long history, Chinese are influenced by the deep-rooted conception formed in the long period of leveled society, and the stereotypes exist in everybody’s mind.

A great society should provide the equal opportunity to everyone regardless his/her status and wealth. Working hard and then succeeding should not be prevented by any power, and it is social duty to protect it. We always want to persist on our dreams and realize our dreams by our own efforts. The personal effort and control over the environment should be the value of the whole human beings and the Americans are walking ahead. Chinese are making progress.