Market Competition

Recently my mom has an excessive fascination to this word: competitive. "Because the international market is more and more COMPETITIVE, the preparation for entering the market will also be more and more COMPETITIVE. Colleges and universities are now harder to get in if you are not COMPETITIVE enough. As a result you should......" Market competition indeed is a trend due to the rise of China. When China liberated its economy, large numbers of cheap working forces attracted companies to set their factories in China.It made the working opportunities sharply decrease. Moreover, when a Chinese student went to a school, he/she had to compete with the other 200 million students while a Taiwanese student competed with the other 200 thousand students. Although the stressful competition almost strained me out, it brought me an advantage --speaking Chinese. In the market, with increasing trading relationships with China, speaking Chinese gradually became important. As Mr. Jones said in his AP Psych class, go to a baby sitting job and tell the parent, "I will speak Chinese to your children all day", than money is in the pocket, thanks to this market competition.