Impressions of Shanghainese: part 1

To people from other provinces to shanghai, we may hear some about shanghaiese through experienced others during our growth or education. Our initial and general impression of some shanghaiese should be like this: to men, they should be much of some female characters what impress us. While to women, in the opposite way, they may be much of some male characters that we always think of. However, that is not a whole picture and not necessarily true.

As far as I am concerned, I have seen some typical old shanghaieses since I come to this city. From them and my explanation, you may know more about them and the Shanghaiese in your eyes. One fact is when we come to someone who are old than us, we'd better call than a teacher to show our respect instead of Aunt or Uncle. Similarly, i will list the following Shanghaieses out with a common appellation "Teacher" and talk of their stories.

Teacher A is one of my colleagues. He is kind and lives in the prosperous spot of the famous Nanjing road. It's said people living there must have some background. He is one of the examples to prove that. However, he, in his fifties, is out of his in some way bright past and glowing youthhood. Life is real. Though he needs not to worry about basic necessities of life, work is a must to engage himself in. Teacher A really has some good experiences that can be informative to us around and especially youths. From him, I learn what is sales and how the sales companies run when I worked in my present company as an intern in 2007. At that time, he seemed to have good relationship with colleagues and I was very grateful to him. But things change by the time. He is not popular again now to colleagues in his level and also to managers.

He is disgusted especially for his "outspokenness" and priggishness. He is easy to speak a lot of bald-faced words to female colleagues. Though he is disliked for that, he takes no step to convert the fact other than complaining of the other colleagues. Oh, poor guy. He always splurges he is right at this or that. However, he should know there is really somewhere of himself that need to improve for good relationship. In addition, his another representive personality such as people who get permanant residence permit in big city like Shanghai is canny or in other words selfish. He can accept others' offerings while being together. But, his response to that is even the pitch that every employee is not easy to survive and it's not good to waste money. You may agree with him on every word from him on his comment. But it's hard to accept his overall argument.

To me, his striking weakness is up to his self-righteousness. One ridiculous point of his is he can see through every move of others. He would rather draws near to someone in bad quality who always gives him some offerings. I always doubt about people why they are so easy to confuse good and bad. To people who have passed their middle age, I don't think they lack of fundmental moral sense.Is that just because of some small boons and sexual attraction? Unbelievable.