well, i'm over it. i lived outside china half of my life. so i'm used to it already. i just don't understand why people are so bored out of their mind and b**** about other countries when they got enough problems in their own country. i mean, i never b**** about other countries problems. besides, human rights != political rights anyways. i don't see much protests in other parts of the world, such as south america, africa, asia, even russia. it looks to me that a lot people in the west think they are better than everyone else and should tell people what to do. oh well. let them be. and i hope the government will never go for another olympics.
comment from another forum: "I was watching at the London protests today and reports of more in Paris. Gotta laugh at the irony that these people will protest for people in a country they've never been too, but will treat 2nd generation french-born non-white citizens as if they weren't even welcome to clean their houses. Totally generalizing on my part perhaps, but based on my experiences studying in Europe, these people who probably protest for Tibetans but call any Asian-looking person, even European-born a chink on the street later, at a much higher rate than they would in the US."
Most Chinese have never been anywhere near Tibet either, yet they have no problem bludgeoning us with their groupthink on the issue....repeatedly.
Make sure you have plenty of popcorns ready on 4/9, the day the torch comes to San Francisco. SF has the largest Chinese community outside China, and, as a bastion of liberalism, probably the largest group of pro-tibeters in the US as well. And both sides are mobilizing. Get ready for the battle of San Francisco!
it doesn't take much to be near tibet. i was born and lived in a place bordering frontier areas. a lot tibetans there. actually, i've met many tibetans in US. one young man who fled china. my parents and i give him a ride home one time. he was speaking chinese to us, calling my parents "uncle" and "aunt". we were all very friendly to each other. if he hated chinese so bad, i don't think he would be acting like that or anywhere near us. i mean seriously, in the end, everyone just want to be peaceful and live a good life. but there are always people who try to bring politics into everything to torcher the poor souls.
Why not. This, and what happened in Tibet, is the samething as what happened in 9/11. Al Qada had a problem with USA, they attacked the weakest link, the most vulnerable/valuable targets, whether it was justified. I am pretty sure those on this board critizing China for the Tibet inccident have forgotten the pain of 9/11. Oh, wait. We are talking about the evil China, not the God blessed America.
Why not? This is exciting! Much better than the last couple of boring affairs, which I almost didn't watch at all. As a Chinese-American, you should have developped quite a thick skin by now, as both of these countries are frequent targets of protests. These disturbances are tame compared to what GWB gets on a regular basis. Protests are really a sign of impotence. They protest because there is really nothing else they can do. Fifty years ago, western countries would have invaded China if she didn't do as they wanted. Twenty years ago, they would have slapped sanctions on China. Today, all they can do is yell and scream. Just give them the finger and a loud "F-you", and still go on to stage the grandest Olympics ever. This Chinese gentleman in London is my hero for the day. Too bad I cann't be in SF on wendesday. I would have loved to bag me a couple of Free-Tibeters. Chinese supporter beating up Free-Tibeter in London's Trafalgar Square.
Oh no! They tried pouring water on a torch! CARRIED BY SOMEONE IN A WHEELCHAIR! OMGZZZZ!!!! This is the worst atrocity since 9/11! No, wait, thousands of people dying can't compare to French protestors!!!
can't watch that at work. will check it out when i get home. are there any events around chicago area? i may show up for that. just a day off work. my parents will go with me if there is an event.
Don't know about Chicago, check your local Chinese newspapers or maybe contact the Chinese student association at University of Chicago. There have been big rallies all around the world. You are never gonna see it in the media though.
I was talking the way those extremists do things. Certainly, innocent Chinese civilian dying in Tibet is no comparable of 9/11 victims.
If you kill an American or a British, you are a terrorist. if you kill a Chinese or a Russian, you are a freedom-fighter. Don't you know that already?
I would personally like to thank KingCheetah for the good giggles I get. No reply is necessary though. This post is just an expression of my un-containable, heart-felt appreciation. PS, How many of you would throw yourself at the police when the torch arrives at the U.S.? I'd like to go watch.
When the USA annexes the Middle East, forces people Muslims to denounce Allah, and sends all the children to American schools and forces them to learn English and pledge allegiance to the USA, and then paves right through the center of the Mosque in Mecca with a brand new street called "Washington DC Ave" then you might have a point comparing Osama bin Laden and Tibet And I think most of us called the Beslan school terrorist exactly what they were - terrorists. Thus fundamentally your point of bias specifically against non-Anglos is proven false. Could it be that we treat Tibet different from Osama bin Laden because we believe that the Tibetans have a legitimate claim? Possibly? Perhaps the situations are treated differently because they are different? Novel concept?
Regular Americans and regular Chinese debating about which government is more evil - the truth is that we have far more in common with one another than any of us has in common with our "leaders" - elected or otherwise. Nationalism is idiocy.
As president of the "Thadeus fan club" I'd like to quote this post for truth. Thadeus for president, b****es.
ya, nationalism is bad. it makes people irrational. but i think a large part of what's driving modern chinese nationalism is constant scrutiny from the outside. even in the 1800s, there wasn't much of a chinese nationalism. but today, i think the government is struggling to contain nationalism, which is unfortunate.
