Hey Doc,
I'm pretty much a newbie here - I joined up on this forum some months ago and posted a thread before, but that was about it. I just came back to this forum and saw this thread:
http://www.russbo.org/vb/showthread.php?t=2952
And I couldn't help but notice your comment about Chinese people... you see, I'm Chinese myself, and I sort of, well, take offense... well, this thread was going to come up eventually, so I felt I might as well be the one to bring it up.
What exactly have you seen in the Chinese people that makes you so distasteful of them? Are they really that bad? What rules do they live by exactly that doesn't make them awful?
Well, from what I understand from my parents (my mother especially), a lot of the crude behaviour found in modern Chinese was the result of history - the Mao era made a lot of people bitter, especially during the Cultural Revolution (when people often spied and persecuted their own neighbours), and there were no moral teachings being instilled in the youth at that time (the Chinese moral model, Confucianism, was illegal at the time), except loyalty to the Party and all that Mao-thought garbage.
My mom, who lived during this era, regarded that a lot of people she had interacted with from her generation are cold and distant; a possible product from the Mao-era, she theorized. Couple this with the rapid influx of western material-thought to fill the spiritual void, and you got those despicable Chinese, I guess.
I admit, my family has dealt with distasteful Chinese people in the past, but I don't like to think they are *all* trash, especially the youth. If China will really take up the mantle as the world's biggest superpower, I'd like to think the younger generation will learn from the mistakes of the past and reform the country - already there are Chinese, young and old, who are fighting to bring back traditional culture, including Confucian values, and I think that's a step in the right direction.
Well, maybe I'm being overly-optimistic, but I love my people that much, I guess. I hope you don't take offense to that, and my awful long rant... and the fact that this has nothing to do with Shaolin, whatsoever.
Please, lets discuss.
-Liu Bei
P.S.: Yongxin sucks balls. There, some mention of Shaolin here.
I'm pretty much a newbie here - I joined up on this forum some months ago and posted a thread before, but that was about it. I just came back to this forum and saw this thread:
http://www.russbo.org/vb/showthread.php?t=2952
And I couldn't help but notice your comment about Chinese people... you see, I'm Chinese myself, and I sort of, well, take offense... well, this thread was going to come up eventually, so I felt I might as well be the one to bring it up.
What exactly have you seen in the Chinese people that makes you so distasteful of them? Are they really that bad? What rules do they live by exactly that doesn't make them awful?
Well, from what I understand from my parents (my mother especially), a lot of the crude behaviour found in modern Chinese was the result of history - the Mao era made a lot of people bitter, especially during the Cultural Revolution (when people often spied and persecuted their own neighbours), and there were no moral teachings being instilled in the youth at that time (the Chinese moral model, Confucianism, was illegal at the time), except loyalty to the Party and all that Mao-thought garbage.
My mom, who lived during this era, regarded that a lot of people she had interacted with from her generation are cold and distant; a possible product from the Mao-era, she theorized. Couple this with the rapid influx of western material-thought to fill the spiritual void, and you got those despicable Chinese, I guess.
I admit, my family has dealt with distasteful Chinese people in the past, but I don't like to think they are *all* trash, especially the youth. If China will really take up the mantle as the world's biggest superpower, I'd like to think the younger generation will learn from the mistakes of the past and reform the country - already there are Chinese, young and old, who are fighting to bring back traditional culture, including Confucian values, and I think that's a step in the right direction.
Well, maybe I'm being overly-optimistic, but I love my people that much, I guess. I hope you don't take offense to that, and my awful long rant... and the fact that this has nothing to do with Shaolin, whatsoever.
Please, lets discuss.
-Liu Bei
P.S.: Yongxin sucks balls. There, some mention of Shaolin here.
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