Full-time student master

Chapter 186 Eighth Avenue
Jia Mingliang is obviously used to Feng Ya's quick words, so he explained, "You can only know the prosperity of the United States in the rich areas, and you can't experience it here!"

While speaking, he looked at Qin Tian, ​​and asked very easy-goingly, "Is this a friend who came with you?"

Feng Ya said nonchalantly, "No, we met on the plane. He came to America for fun. I invited him to stay at home for a few days. You have no objection!"

Jia Mingliang smiled and said, "No problem, they are all from the motherland, and they are fellow villagers here! Since we are here to play, let me take you to have fun during the two months before school starts! "

In fact, Qin Tian could clearly see that after Jia Mingliang heard that Qin Tian was here to play, his expression relaxed a lot. It was obvious that he had a deep hostility towards Qin Tian before!

But the truth of this is obvious. No matter in any society, the principle of dividing people into groups is eternal.

In American society, there are very clear boundaries between the rich, the middle class, and the poor.

Among the Chinese in the United States, there are not many rich people. The largest number of Chinese in the United States is the middle class, followed by the poor.

And there is a big gap in their lives, which is so big that you can't imagine.

Take going to school as an example. In China, you may have had a classmate from the rich second generation, but in the United States, if you are poor, your classmates can only be poor.

If you are middle-class, then your classmates can only be middle-class. This situation is mainly caused by the special social structure of the United States.

Because American education is divided into neighborhoods, if you are in a poor neighborhood, where people pay very low taxes on education, then the schools here are very poor.

And in the middle-class and wealthy neighborhoods, they have a lot of money to pay education taxes, so the schools in these districts are generally very good.

Of course, there are exceptions in universities, but the difference is not big.

In American universities, there are only two types of universities. Of course, this is Qin Tian's personal idea. In his opinion, these two types of universities are Ivy League schools and very Ivy League schools.

The reason for saying this is also determined by the contribution of the rich to the university, and the contribution of the middle class and the poor to the university.

Because American universities are places with a strong academic and artistic atmosphere, and those who engage in art, academics or science mainly rely on social donations for their funds.

Therefore, this has caused a skew in educational resources, and because the United States is a multi-racial country, among the students they enroll every year, except for blacks and whites, other races of skin color depend on how much money they donate. Decide how many people to enroll.

Therefore, in some TV dramas in China, it is often said that a certain person was admitted to a famous American school with excellent grades, but in fact, those are all nonsense.

If this situation really happened in reality, it can only be said that a certain rich man in China donated a lot of money to an Ivy League school for his children, and this person happened to submit an application for admission to this school.

However, if ordinary Chinese people want to go to college in the United States, they may not necessarily enter a prestigious school with good grades, because the criteria for foreign students in Ivy League schools are students who have achieved outstanding achievements in a certain field.

It's not what everyone thinks now, that a certain academic master got sky-defying good grades in a university in Huaxia.

So as long as there are Chinese people who can study in Ivy League schools, there can only be two kinds of people, one is the super rich second generation, and the other is the real genius!
In fact, in the final analysis, this is a method for the United States to win over global elite talents, and it is also one of the methods for attracting global funds.

The main reason why there are no rich Chinese in American society is that in 2007, except for the richest people in Hong Kong, the richest people in China could only be at the level of the middle class in the United States. .

After all, you have more than 1000 million in China, and once converted into US dollars, it is more than 2000 million. In the United States, you can only be called a rich person if your private assets exceed [-] million US dollars, and you can only be considered a rich person if your private assets reach [-] million US dollars.

Moreover, Chinese people have always had a tradition of being thrifty and rescinding contracts, so even after Feng Ya arrived in the United States, she still lived in Brooklyn, where the middle class is densely populated, especially on Eighth Avenue in Brooklyn.

In the United States, there is a difference between streets and roads. Roads running north-south are called streets, and roads running east-west are called roads.

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In the huge Ford commercial vehicle, apart from a strong black driver, there were Jia Mingliang, Feng Ya, and Qin Tian, ​​and they talked in Chinese. The black driver obviously couldn't understand Chinese, so the three of them Conversations are less restrained.

Eighth Avenue (Eighth Avenue) is an important main road and commercial district in Brooklyn, New York City, USA.

Starting from Fort Greene, passing through Park Slope, Sunset Park and Dyker Heights, the entire Eighth Avenue is divided into three parts.

The essence of the Eighth Avenue Chinese business district is generally considered to be between 55th Street and 59th Street, extending continuously to both sides, but the most crowded area is near 56th Street to 58th Street, and the rent is also the most expensive.

On Eighth Avenue, from 50th Street to 60th Street, you can see shops opened by Chinese people. There are at least 10 Chinese restaurants, other supermarkets with Chinese characteristics, driving schools and shopping malls. The hawkers who sell phone cards are almost all Chinese.

Due to the increasing number of Chinese overseas Chinese, the main customers of the stores opened on the avenue, including some time-honored supermarkets and ginseng shops, are also Chinese.

People in the real estate industry in the area also pointed out that whenever there is a house sold or rented on Eighth Avenue, nine out of ten of the houses that are finally rented or bought are also Chinese people.

The Chinese community on 8th Avenue in Brooklyn has become the community with the largest Chinese population in New York City.

You can usually use Cantonese, Hokkien, or Mandarin here, because almost [-]% of the place on Eighth Avenue is Chinese.

Sitting in the car, Qin Tian looked at the high-rise buildings on both sides, the street vendors, and the small shops, which made Qin Tian feel like he was in a snack street near the school of finance and economics.

Of course, as the car moves forward, it arrives at places where large companies are densely populated, and it feels like arriving at those large CBD and SOHO centers in Zhonghai.

In fact, this kind of situation in the United States will only appear in Chinatown, which is the place where Chinese people live together.

Because only Chinese people have such a strong national complex, they will choose to live together in a foreign country.

Among other ethnic groups in the world, the same as the Chinese are Jews or Israelis. Except for these two ethnic groups, Muslims and blacks are not very united.

Just this part of the journey not only shows the living conditions of Chinese people of different classes in the United States, but also condenses the sharp distinction between the rich and the poor in the entire American society.

Here, the poor can go to the relief center every day to receive a day's food and milk, and then sit on the side of the road with a can in front of them, waiting for passers-by to throw some change and buy a pack of cigarettes to smoke.

There were also angry horses in bright clothes, scantily clad beauties on board, and wealthy sons whizzing by.

The boundaries between the poor, the middle class, and the rich seem to be blurred here, but in Qin Tian's eyes, the gap between the rich and the poor is so obvious.

As the car drove, the vendors on both sides of the street disappeared, replaced by spotless roads, clean and tidy high-end Chinese restaurants, and one after another luxury cars parked on the side of the road.

This Ford commercial vehicle instantly became a very ordinary car among these cars.

The car quickly stopped in front of a blue-gray building, and the mottled traces on the dark cast railway light pole seemed to prove its age.

The house in front of me is blue-gray and looks so old. The outer wall has a European-style architectural style. Although the wooden floor is newly replaced when you walk into it, you can see the house from Chen She inside. age.

Qin Tian carefully observed the style of the house, and finally couldn't bear it, and said, "This should be the architectural style around 1935. This house is about 80 to [-] years old!"

Jia Mingliang was very surprised, and then said proudly, "This is the real estate purchased by my great-grandfather. It was around 1940. At that time, our family went to the United States to escape the war. Back then, my family had some money, and my great-grandfather was At that time, there were few economists in China, so after arriving here, my great-grandfather made a name for himself on Wall Street.

Later when China was founded, my great-grandfather resolutely gave up all his money and real estate, and returned to China all the way.

Then came my father's generation, who caught up with the reform and opening up, so my father accompanied my grandfather back to the United States according to my grandfather's wishes at that time.

Because my grandfather has American citizenship, the house and the frozen millions of dollars were returned to our family.

And our family relied on these millions of dollars to grab huge wealth in the tide of reform and opening up!
So, this house is the ancestral home of our family! "

After Jia Mingliang said so, he made a very gentlemanly gesture of invitation and let Feng Ya and Qin Tian in.

This is an old-fashioned five-story building with wide stairs but no elevator. The first floor is an indoor garden, and the lobby is about five meters high.

The second floor is the reception room and dining room, the third floor is where the owner lives, with separate access control, the fourth floor is the study gym, and the fifth floor is the guest room.

Qin Tian was arranged on the fifth floor, and Feng Ya and Jia Mingliang obviously had an unusual relationship, so they lived on the third floor.

Qin Tian and Feng Ya were somewhat tired after a day's flight, so Jia Mingliang didn't arrange any welcome banquet, but let them rest on their own.

Qin Tian looked at the tidy guest room and the faint fragrance of flowers wafting in the room, but he began to think about it.

Because Qin Tian came out this time, the main purpose was to rob.

However, Qin Tian's so-called robbing was not really robbing passers-by on the street, but robbing some big drug lords.

Because drug lords in the United States and Latin America all use cash, drug lords have a lot of cash in their hands.

In his previous life, Qin Tian had a lot of contact with drug lords in Latin America during the several missions he performed, and he had a deep understanding of their behavior and style.

Therefore, Qin Tian's main purpose is to rob these drug lords, and he also wants to visit Hongmen, because he wants to get online with the American drug lords as quickly as possible, and it is perfect to find Petit Charter!
(End of this chapter)