The sales staff constant refrain was that there was an emergency . To make matters worse most expenses were never accounted for, receipts were either incomplete or nonexistent. Office receipts were in such an appalling state that it became very difficult to close some accounts. Because of this situation it had been decided that the branch s expenses should be dealt with by the company s China office, with a promise to reimburse sales expenses within one week provided that receipts were properly completed. This corrupt practice not only demoralised honest members of the staff it encouraged the now dishonest sales personnel to inflate their expenses in the knowledge that the company would unknowing underwrite their free loans.
China is a powerful example of that fact.
That the Chinese have suffered from invasions by Western countries during the past hundred and fifty years is a good sales point for a Chinese dictator to use to promote nationalism. That it is generally believed, especially by Western intellectuals, that the capitalists exploited their workers during the Industrial Revolution makes a good clarion call for the Communism Party to unite the workers in a common cause. The differences between the wealth and the poor also creates an opportunities for an ambitious and cynical politician to exploit the Marxist theory of class conflict. Unfortunately the Chinese people s bitter experiences of the last hundred and fifty years has built up an inappropriate and unhealthy mentality of the Big-China doctrine based on an extreme and parochial form of nationalism. Nowadays, helped by the Western capital that has flowed into China since the open door policy was implemented in 1978, the Chinese are enjoying the enormous advantages of capitalism.