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  • #31
    Chinese people are treacherous. Just say it. Actually some Chinese intellectuals have pointed this out many times before. If you haven't read it, I recommend "The Ugly Chinese" by Bo Yang (Taiwanese writer). Or for that matter, almost anything written by Lu Xun. Remember his famous quote: I've never been afraid of expecting the worst evil intentions from the Chinese. (我向来是不惮以最坏的恶意来推测中国人的。)

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    • #32
      well said......but it is, of course, a generalization...
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      • #33
        I've met some Chinese with whom I've been close friends for many years, people who have been honest, loyal, respectful, and reliable. Decheng and Deru are two of them. Xingwei in my opinion, was not. Overall, I'm cautious in my dealings with them. And I know that "generalizations" are not politically correct vehicles, but, there's a reason why they exist.
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        • #34
          i have a similar line of thought.

          over the years i've made some great chinese friends, who i would never describe as 'treacherous.' and, from my experience, chinese can also sometimes be some of the friendliest people in the world.

          however, i've probably met more disingenuous chinese than i have honest chinese. so i guess it holds true more than not, and is backed by a (seeminly) sufficient amount of experiential evidence, but still, it's a generalization nonetheless.
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          • #35
            When I spoke with a few of my attorney friends years ago, about suing Xingwei for breach of contract and defamation, I got the same response from all of them.

            They shuddered to even think of suing a Chinese.

            The answer was the same. "They all lie". Brutal to go up against one in court, when they do anything and everything to win. No sense of honor, no sense of honesty, and they're very tribal in their ways. They stick together against outsiders.

            My attorney friends hate them. And my business friends do all that they can to avoid doing business with them. Same concept, different arena.
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            • #36
              An interesting article from the IHT. It really hammers home a point about how people can uncaringly "rewrite" history to accommodate their own desires. And how the public can be gently coerced.

              Beijing exhibition paves over much of Tibet's history
              By Andrew Jacobs
              Published: March 12, 2009


              BEIJING: Gone from Tibet are the shackled slaves, the thumb screws and the scorpion pits that awaited serfs who defied their masters. Gone, too, is the Dalai Lama, that "jackal clad in Buddhist monk's robes," who fled to India 50 years ago this week during an uprising that China claims was aimed at preserving his feudalistic rule.

              With Tibet closed to foreign journalists and much of the region suddenly, and mysteriously, beset by patchy phone and Internet service, the only way to get a glimpse of contemporary Tibet these days is by visiting the Cultural Palace of Nationalities, a Socialist-style confection in Beijing whose current exhibition, "50th Anniversary of Democratic Reforms in Tibet," is getting rave reviews from the soldiers, schoolchildren and government officials who are bused in day after day.

              With its display cases of gruesome torture devices, grainy film footage of mutilated faces and the "liberation" shots of beaming Tibetans, the exhibit is a propagandist tour de force that reinforces the Communist Party's unbending version of history during what is referred to here as a "sensitive time."

              In addition to marking the five decades since Tibet was "unshackled from despotic theocratic rule," Saturday is the first anniversary of riots in Lhasa that left 19 people dead and prompted a heavy-handed government response, one that has intensified in recent weeks in areas with large Tibetan populations.

              The unrest last March came as a shock to the authorities, who thought decades of generous investment in Tibet had gone a long way to mollify lingering resentment toward Beijing.

              The exhibit, which opened last month, seeks to smother the contention of many overseas scholars that Tibet enjoyed brief periods of independence, and it lays out in breathless detail the positive transformation wrought by Chinese rule. "After the democratic reforms, serfs and slaves were free to build a happy new life, and they showed great enthusiasm in production," announces one of the cheery ethnic Han Chinese docents, dressed in silken Tibetan robes, who guide visitors from start to finish.

              The exhibit also tries to drive home the government's long-held assertion that the Dalai Lama is stoking separatist sentiment among an otherwise contented populace. "The Restoration Fantasy of the Dalai Clique" is how one panel introduces evidence purporting to show that the Tibetan spiritual leader, backed by the foreign powers and Western journalists, is seeking a return to power and to tear China apart.

              "History makes fair judgments," read the departing text of the sprawling exhibit whose emotional crescendo is a life-sized diorama of gleeful Tibetans tossing feudal documents into a bonfire. "During 50 years of development, Tibet has moved from darkness to light, poverty to affluence, dictatorship to democracy, and seclusion to opening-up."

              Western scholars dispute the government's interpretation of history, and Tibetan exile groups view the Communist Party as an oppressive occupier. But such contrarian sentiments rarely reach ordinary Chinese, most of whom have long since imbibed the official version promulgated in textbooks, on television and in newspapers.

              As he left the exhibit on Tuesday, Dai Zhirong, an electronics salesman from Tianjin, said what he saw only reaffirmed his disgust for the Dalai Lama and his disappointment with the Tibetan people. "I don't understand how they can eat our food and still hate us," said Dai, 57, who stopped by after seeing a promotional segment on television. "When I am reminded of the truth, and see what the separatists are trying to do, I hate them too."
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