Demonstrations and Strikes

For Chinese it is really hard to imagine how demonstrations and strikes of thousands of people could look like, and this happens as often as having daily meals here in Germany. Germany is a country with very high production costs, of which the personal costs do make up a pretty large part. This somehow relates to the democratic atmosphere here and the contributions of various strikes and demonstrations. I’ve heard the joke that after conducting a nationwide strike by train drivers for a salary promotion, there then followed another by the railway repairers because they also asked for a corresponding promotion:) So you see it is like a mechanism in which a screw is worked on and the whole machine is going to vibrate. It was good to be there in the demonstration for “True Tibet” and how people with different opinions argued with each other in a peaceful way, and now also the benefit that I enjoy to stay home for some leisure time due to the week long  strike initiated by students against insufficient support and improvement of educational conditions.
It’s always good to see what is never supposed to be seen in your own country and thus you observe the world with a more tolerant sight angle.