Yu begins by comparing the attitudes of children from years ago to the present and how brazen children have become. He reinforces this by commenting that the more repressed a society is when social change occurs, the more relaxed it becomes. Yu then comments on the little disparity China experienced when he was young versus the economic disparity China experiences now. He comments on the complexity of society in comparison to the simplicity he experienced in the past. He references an instant in which a Canadian student challenged the idea that money is a prerequisite to happiness and how this highlights peoples “willful indifference” to poverty and hunger.
