The child then took the book and found another picture. taken over in Shanghai. China. There were hundreds of LXXI79 coolies running around with twowheeled carts. taking the rich people for a ride. I told her about that. and she said again. "Do the coolies like to run around with these twowheeled carts?" I said. "No. that is hard work. Dont you see they are almost naked?" I told her that the average life of a coolie is 32 years. because they have to run so fast with these carts and work so hard. She said. "Why dont they do. like we children do? Why are there so few of the rich and so many of the coolies? Why dont they change off and the rich take the coolies for a ride once in a while?" I answered in the same philosophy: "Why? Because the coolies. though there are many. do not understand their strength. They have been reconciled to misery. want. poverty. and deprivation. and they have grown to believe that is their destiny." Mr. Chairman. there is that infallible law that knowledge is light and wisdom is power.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about the average life and conditions of coolies, portraying them as miserable and accepting of their fate.