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Originally Posted by eric2004 Chinese experienced a humiliating history in the last two centuries and once upon a time, China was the mightest nation in the world, like Tang Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty. So among Chinese we have a very special and weird feeling now which mixed with self-humiliation and self-esteem. Of course both of them are very extreme. And the wrong thing for American is you are the mightest nation now, your citizen can enjoy the freedom and democracy, and you have saved the world like you said. So you can get to learn now why Chinese hate you guys and call you hegemonic nation or strong politics ( I don't know how to translate these two words, which are very popluar in China to describe the US. Hmm, bad words, of course). Sigh, anyway, in essence Chinese just feel very jealous about what you've got in the world and despise but actually envy the position of America. |
I'm not a historian, but I do know that at one time China was the most advanced country in the world. Technologically, it was more advanced than any country in Europe. It seems that one of the reasons for the big change is that China stopped trading with other countries. In any case, change is one thing we can always count on.
(Please correct me if I have any of my facts wrong.)
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Originally Posted by eric2004 But from my part, I don't wanna be involved into patriotism things. I hope the US won't give up attacking such power because they would still be a threaten for the whole world in finance, politics, safety or even survival. (especially Nuclear power in North Korea, I suggest you ought to attack this nation like you treat Iraq, and surely it's more crucial than Iraq thing.)
If the world needs a leader, then no other nation but the US can be that because your political policies. You will never creat a dictator like Hitler because if someone wanna be like that you can make him out of power. )But you have also been enduring a lot of condemnation or even being killed. |
Believe it or not, we are really not interested in invading other countries.
Even those of us who were in favor of the war with Iraq did not feel that way because we like war. Also, even if we wanted to, we wouldn't be able to knock off every dictator in the world.
Some great news recently, by the way, was the completion of the road from Kabul to Kandahar (in Afghanistan). They are gradually making progress there with a little help from their friends. :)
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Originally Posted by eric2004 Btw, I'm not a racist, patriot or nationalist, so I don't hate you. xixi. I only hate the dictator, you know who he is. Mao zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, none of them are wiser leaders. In China, only one person deserve my respcet forever, he was named " Sun ZhongShan", the mere great man in 20 century in China. |
Might that be the person we know in the West as Sun Yat Sen? (I'm not sure I spelled that right.) He was a great philosopher, wasn't he? Isn't Confucianism still popular in China?
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