The three causes of stress and anxiety to the Chinese middle class were maintaining home values, sending children to university, and affording health care should a family member need it. In America, the same issues haunt the middle class, but the way Dodson described the Chinese's state of the economy, China's middle class seems to be more competitive and more haunted than Americans. At least in our country we have loans, scholarships, and government aid/healthcare to help ease the anxiety of these stressors. In China, it seems as though the government is unwilling to help their citizens, as if they did not care. It's understandable if the government could not afford to help all, considering there are millions more people in China than in the US. However, the government isn't willing to provide any help at all to the citizens, not even therapy and counseling sessions for those traumatized by stress. In America we have the same issues. We have people unable to afford their homes, or losing the value of their properties by the day. We have students competing to enter good colleges in order to attain a leg-up in today's job market. We have graduate students unable to find a job and suffering the repercussions every year. We have ill and injured people here putting their family and themselves through anguish and debt to pay hospital bills. Americans are still suffering the same issues, but yet I can't help but feel grateful that at least we have a government that cares enough to help a few. I presently count on the government loans issued to me in order to put myself through school. I'm not so sure I would be so lucky in China.
Haley Martin
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