East intersects with west in amusing ways in Mike Bellamy’s professional and personal life. The American founder of Passagemaker, a sourcing company that acts as a go-between for midsized western companies that supply retailers from factories in China, laughs when he describes how his teenage daughter symbolises this cultural ambidexterity. She picks “the eyeball out of a fish-head with chopsticks with one hand while helping herself to mashed potatoes” with the other.
在Passagemaker的美國創始人邁克?貝拉米(Mike Bellamy)的職業生涯和個人生活中,東西方文化以一種有趣的方式交織在一起。Passagemaker是一家為西方中等規模企業提供居間服務的采購公司,這些企業用中國工廠生產出的產品向零售商供貨。當貝拉米描述自己十來歲的女兒如何嫻熟地掌握這兩種文化時,他大笑了起來。她能夠用“一只手拿筷子從魚頭上夾出魚眼睛,同時用另一只手吃土豆泥”。