Luo Ziling declined Bob's offer to say hello to Rose. He felt that Europeans think differently from Easterners.
He has always felt that among Europeans, favors are not of much use.
He believed that if Bob greeted Rose, he would probably be disliked by the woman, which would be counterproductive.
In the process of contacting Ross, this woman acted a little proactively. After the first meeting, she took the initiative to ask her assistant to call Lin Lan to meet with Luo Ziling. Since Ross took the initiative to meet, Luo Ziling felt that the relationship with this woman was
Negotiating may not be so hard.
Therefore, he declined Bob's offer to greet him and took Lin Lan to see Ross.
Of course, the main reason he did this was not to get Bob's favor on this matter.
What he needs from Bob is to help promote traditional Chinese medicine and make traditional Chinese medicine one of the mainstream medicines in Europe again.
Rather than on other things.
Things have become like this. Luo Ziling, who originally had no intention of doing a "big thing", has already planned to use Bob and Deman to promote the development of traditional Chinese medicine in Europe. Although Luo Ziling feels that this has little to do with him, he feels that he
This should be done.
After leaving Deman's villa, Luo Ziling went to Ross's appointment.
Ross invited Luo Ziling to visit Engie Group and hold talks in the company's headquarters building.
Naturally, Luo Ziling would not refuse this request and went directly to the engie group's headquarters in Paris.
The Chinese name of Engie Group is French Gas Suez Group or Suez Environmental Energy Group.
According to information collected by Lin Lan and publicly available on the Internet, Suez Environmental Energy Group was formed from the merger of GDF and Suez on July 22, 2008. It has nearly 160,000 employees worldwide. In 2016
Annual turnover reaches 66.6 billion euros.
The headquarters of Suez Environmental Energy Group is not in Paris, but in Córdoba. The so-called headquarters in Paris is actually just an office.
And Rose, the woman in charge of Far East affairs, is the person in charge of the Paris headquarters. As for why a woman in charge of Far East affairs is allowed to sit in the Paris headquarters, Luo Ziling has not yet figured out the reason, and Lin Lan did not tell him.
When Luo Ziling and Lin Lan drove to the headquarters of Suez Environmental Energy Group in Paris, the woman in her fifties who followed Ross that day and gave people a very shrewd look that made people frown was at the entrance of the group headquarters.
Wait for them.
Seeing Luo Ziling and Lin Lan come in, she immediately came forward to greet them, extended her hand to Luo Ziling in a neither humble nor condescending manner, and said hello in Chinese.
Hearing this uncomfortable-looking woman say hello in blunt Chinese, Luo Ziling couldn't help but smiled bitterly and replied "Hello!"
Listening to foreigners speak Chinese can sometimes be a real headache.
However, if the other party is willing to say hello in Chinese, it at least shows her respect for you.
Luo Ziling was very pleased with this.
The old woman just said hello politely and led Luo Ziling towards the elevator.
The Paris headquarters of Suez Environmental Energy Group is quite lively, with people coming and going and not deserted at all.
However, most of the faces inside were not oriental, and all they heard were in a language that Luo Ziling did not understand.
In France, the main language of communication is definitely French, and even if you speak English here, people may not understand you.
Lin Lan once explained the reason to Luo Ziling.
The French people have a strong sense of being a big country and attach great importance to the protection of their traditional culture, the French language. In addition, Britain and France have been old enemies in history. In the battle with Britain, the French are basically at a disadvantage, so they are hostile to the British.
They are resentful. They dislike foreigners who speak English very much. For them, speaking fluent English is not as good as speaking poorer, less fluent French.
If you travel to France and ask someone for directions, and they hear you ask in French, the locals will basically help you enthusiastically, but if you speak English, no one may pay attention to you, or pretend not to understand.
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In fact, this is the case in most countries in the world. If you travel there and don’t speak their language, you are likely to be looked down upon or despised by them. Of course, China is an exception. I don’t know if it has been bullied too much by foreign powers in modern times.
, many people always think that foreigners are superior to others. Many Chinese people treat foreigners who speak foreign languages as superior.
As long as you don't have an oriental face, you will be treated as a distinguished guest no matter where you come from.
When foreigners come to China, even if they don't speak Chinese, they can still have smooth communication in China because we are willing to speak foreign languages with them.
This has caused a very strange phenomenon: when we Chinese go abroad, we have to speak foreign languages with foreigners; when foreigners come to China, we still have to speak foreign languages with them. We have always been superior, and Chinese, which is nobler than ordinary languages, has a lower and lower status.
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Even some people who have been abroad for many years can't help but come up with a few foreign words when they speak Chinese after returning home.
It seems that if you don’t add a few words when you speak, your identity will lose value.
In Luo Ziling's heart, he has always felt that Chinese and Chinese characters are the most beautiful languages and characters in the world. Poems written in Chinese, both in level and rhyme, are enough to stump any translator. In other words, poetry has no
Methods translated in foreign languages.
If foreigners want to understand the artistic conception of poetry, they can only study Chinese hard.
The art of calligraphy is also unique to square characters. Luo Ziling cannot imagine how to use calligraphy to evaluate the artistry of letters composed of letters.
Therefore, Luo Ziling never felt ashamed that he did not know a foreign language. He felt that as long as he learned Chinese well, his life would be perfect.
When Luo Ziling took Lin Lan to talk with Bob and Deman, Lin Lan not only translated Chinese into French, but also translated French into Chinese.
Luo Ziling felt that this was unfair, so when he said goodbye to Bob and Deman, he proposed that the next time they meet, they should bring their own Chinese translators so that they can appear to be equal in their interactions.
When Luo Ziling just asked Lin Lan to contact Ross, he also asked the other party to provide a Chinese translation. Lin Lan would not take the initiative to translate what the other party said from French into Chinese. That was the obligation of the other party's translator.
When meeting Ross's assistant, Luo Ziling asked Lin Lan to make this request again.
Ross's assistant responded immediately, saying that they had prepared their own translation.
The other party respected his request, and Luo Ziling was quite satisfied.
But what surprised Luo Ziling was that when he met Rose, he saw an oriental-looking girl following Rose.
Without any introduction, Luo Ziling could tell that the translator next to Ross was also Chinese.
When the assistant led Luo Ziling into the office, Rose stood up to greet him. She also said hello to Luo Ziling in Chinese.
"Hello, it's very rare and nice to see Mr. Luo again." Ross's Chinese is still very blunt and has the characteristics of foreigners speaking Chinese. "You are the youngest visitor I have ever seen. It's a pleasure to meet you."
You talk again!”
After Luo Ziling returned the greeting, he asked a very direct question: "Does Miss Rose know my situation very well?"
"Yes, I checked a lot of information related to Mr. Luo!" Ross did not deny it, and then said in Chinese: "Your achievements surprised me! No, it should be a big surprise!"