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2008-05-19 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese people: foreigners to blame for all our problems

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Posted by gromky 2008-05-19 10:47|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 And its terrible that all those foreigners have the oil you so desperately need and will continue to need to keep your economy afloat.

By the way, liked all the pic's in National Geographic this month, seems you're assimilating Western Culture[tm] nicely. (Actions speak louder than words). You've learned to be just as ungrateful as the French Intellectual Class[tm].

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-05-19 15:06|| 2008-05-19 15:06|| Front Page Top

#2 French intellectuals are a good comparison. Criticize others endlessly, but of course themselves are spotless. If you make a point, it only makes sens to you because you're an unwashed philistine and you can't possibly be expected to discourse at the high level that we operate at.

Posted by gromky 2008-05-19 16:32|| 2008-05-19 16:32|| Front Page Top

#3 And how that makes them different from any other "People"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-05-19 17:03|| 2008-05-19 17:03|| Front Page Top

#4 This may have either benign or malevolent ends. To start with, if you ask the typical American about China, or foreigners in general, would you be surprised to hear similar disparaging remarks?

On one level, in both countries, it is a sign that they are strong nations, and don't particularly like foreigners bashing their country, whether or not they have a point. Think of it as pride.

What matters is how that attitude evolves. If France does something that annoys the US, we stop buying their stuff, at a low level, to send them a message. We don't go to war with them.

But if the Chinese become aggrieved, say with India, what will they do? If they systematically wind their people up into wanting to do something violent to punish India, that is the downside.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-05-19 17:27|| 2008-05-19 17:27|| Front Page Top

#5 And how that makes them different from any other "People"?

Not much. However, look at Americans. They'll adopt children of any color, race, creed, or nationality, not hung up on 'blood', a discriminator internal even within societies. Interesting difference.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-05-19 17:55|| 2008-05-19 17:55|| Front Page Top

#6 All the barriers they're throwing up will, in a couple of years or so, bring the export component of the Chinese economy to a screeching halt, as exporters (Chinese and foreign) shift their operations abroad. China is moving towards economic autarky even as India is liberalizing its economy. This is India's chance to catch up.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2008-05-19 22:17|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-05-19 22:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Money is the driving force here, not the culture, the adventure or anything else.

This is actually pretty amusing, since China has no traditional culture left. Apart from food and the traditional Chinese superiority complex, everything you see outside of a museum and archaelogical digs in China is of Western design or invention, including the hairstyle and the clothing. No one wears the elegant Qing (Manchurian), Ming (last Chinese dynasty) or even the clunky Sun Yat Sen (i.e. Mao jackets) costumes (which is what they are, in the context of today's China) any more. China doesn't have a culture - it has museum pieces.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2008-05-19 22:23|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-05-19 22:23|| Front Page Top

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