My Chinese Proverb
Over the holiday, I took the family to dim sum in Chicago's Chinatown. My father and I were discussing financials and our family's history. As we got into it, he began spatting out all this and that and the other regarding Chinese traditions. He was adamantly trying to explain to my sister and I what my grandmother had instilled in him. It didn't quite makes sense, the old man can ramble, but then I found this... Money could make demons turn grind stones It means two things from what I have gathered. First it means that if you have money than you have power. You have the ability to have others carry out your will without consequence. The second, which I believe my father was eluding to, is used in our culture when one commits crimes for money. It is meant as a more haunting version of "money is the root of all evil." My family has a rather vague past. I have been told my grandfather immigrated through Ellis Island in a backwards way. His sole purpose was to leave ...