So what all of us are looking at aren't necessarily always as true as it claimed by someone else. Keep your eyes wide open man.. We are all under control by someone else.
Don't you know all the news covered in CNN, Washington Post, BBC, MSN, Foxnews are manipulated? Check it out yourself at www.anit-cnn.com..
Using pics taken in Nepal and claiming they're taken in Tibet.. hmmm, how objective they are..
I'm sorry, but Olympic Games are going to be held in August, and I suppose that is during the summer holiday in almost all of the universities in China, I suppose? Do you stay in school during holidays? Hard-working..
Yes, but the Chinese culture and history is thousands of years old and it seems logical that things tend to build up momentum and maintain some inertia over time, even as new ideas and culture are integrated with the old, so it is perhaps not unreasonable to talk about things 100 years old when the culture itself is thousands of years old.
By saying this you are assuming that culture hardly changes or simply changes in a constant rate. However, Chinese culture has undergone dramatic change over the last 100 years. Say for example, parents used to select spouses for their children, and this is absolutely unchallengeable in the past, a part of our traditional value. However, people choose their partner freely without the hindering from parents, (ok not exactly, parents does express their disgruntle-ness against the partner their children choose if they really don't like him/her. but they have not way to stop them to get married) We are adapting, by throwing away the values that are out of fit to the current situation and adopting new values and practices from outside. For the point that Chinese regard westerners as 'barbarians', well, history books say it, but the people they refer to are limited to those races around ANCIENT China and attack us when they had problem in their region to support people's living there, and it's a quote from thousands of years ago. Nowadays, with the stress on developing economy and with the emphasis on developing science and technology, there is hardly any Chinese ever say or even think that westerner are 'barbarians' or alike. You guys have a lot we need to learn from, and we are learning.
but I think it is fair to say that the culture of China, being more homogeneous, tends to concentrate the "our way of doing things is better"
Just as in the US there is always people criticizing all kinds of things, there are debates, criticism going on all over China as well. I'm not sure, some people may think that 'our way of doing things is better', i doubt it personally. But Chinese culture tend to see things in two perspectives, the positive side and the negative side. So a typical view you will probably get from a Chinese is like 'I like this and this of this thing, but it does has drawbacks such as blah blah blah'. Applying this, 'our way of doing things may be better in some ways, and it also has drawbacks...' is the way we look at our 'way of doing things', and all the other ways of doing things around the world.
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This is called patent troll..
we are going to have FootBook, HandBook, Bodybook.......fill in the list!
Yeah it's blocked a few hours ago. it WAS.
So what all of us are looking at aren't necessarily always as true as it claimed by someone else.
Keep your eyes wide open man.. We are all under control by someone else.
Don't you know all the news covered in CNN, Washington Post, BBC, MSN, Foxnews are manipulated? Check it out yourself at www.anit-cnn.com.. Using pics taken in Nepal and claiming they're taken in Tibet.. hmmm, how objective they are..
I'm sorry, but Olympic Games are going to be held in August, and I suppose that is during the summer holiday in almost all of the universities in China, I suppose? Do you stay in school during holidays? Hard-working..
no no, not the kind of discussion we like here.. stop it..
Yes, but the Chinese culture and history is thousands of years old and it seems logical that things tend to build up momentum and maintain some inertia over time, even as new ideas and culture are integrated with the old, so it is perhaps not unreasonable to talk about things 100 years old when the culture itself is thousands of years old.
By saying this you are assuming that culture hardly changes or simply changes in a constant rate. However, Chinese culture has undergone dramatic change over the last 100 years. Say for example, parents used to select spouses for their children, and this is absolutely unchallengeable in the past, a part of our traditional value. However, people choose their partner freely without the hindering from parents, (ok not exactly, parents does express their disgruntle-ness against the partner their children choose if they really don't like him/her. but they have not way to stop them to get married) We are adapting, by throwing away the values that are out of fit to the current situation and adopting new values and practices from outside. For the point that Chinese regard westerners as 'barbarians', well, history books say it, but the people they refer to are limited to those races around ANCIENT China and attack us when they had problem in their region to support people's living there, and it's a quote from thousands of years ago. Nowadays, with the stress on developing economy and with the emphasis on developing science and technology, there is hardly any Chinese ever say or even think that westerner are 'barbarians' or alike. You guys have a lot we need to learn from, and we are learning.
but I think it is fair to say that the culture of China, being more homogeneous, tends to concentrate the "our way of doing things is better"
Just as in the US there is always people criticizing all kinds of things, there are debates, criticism going on all over China as well. I'm not sure, some people may think that 'our way of doing things is better', i doubt it personally. But Chinese culture tend to see things in two perspectives, the positive side and the negative side. So a typical view you will probably get from a Chinese is like 'I like this and this of this thing, but it does has drawbacks such as blah blah blah'. Applying this, 'our way of doing things may be better in some ways, and it also has drawbacks...' is the way we look at our 'way of doing things', and all the other ways of doing things around the world.