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(guó)創(chuàng)始人邁克?貝拉米(Mike Bellamy)的職業(yè)生涯和個(gè)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(guī)模企業(yè)提供居間服務(wù)的采購(gòu)公司，這些企業(yè)用中國(guó)工廠生產(chǎn)出的產(chǎn)品向零售商供貨。當(dāng)貝拉米描述自己十來(lái)歲的女兒如何嫻熟地掌握這兩種文化時(shí)，他大笑了起來(lái)。她能夠用“一只手拿筷子從魚(yú)頭上夾出魚(yú)眼睛，同時(shí)用另一只手吃土豆泥”。