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Originally Posted by Sausage
When was the last time you turned CNN off long enough to actually go to China.. hell Tibet even? Thought so.
The China you hear about in the western media isn't the China I saw.
But no .. please .. you were busy telling us how bad China was from your own inexperience .. please continue.
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Originally Posted by buzzy
It wasn't a direct personal attack on you sorry if i came out that way but everyone for weeks has been bashing China for no reason, i find it hard to believe what you said about China being completley cruel and uncivilized without a good source unless you have been there yourself.
Look at Chinas response to their devistating earthquake, it was top notch and brilliant. Compare that to Bushes response to Katrina
Look at how they got praised by the climate organizations by saying China done all in it's power to remove the smog
Give them some credit, they have all pulled together and pulled it off. :D
Napoleon once said about China: "Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world"
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Originally Posted by Libertine
I'm going to go and assume you've never actually been to China.
Most of China is actually a pretty typical country with an emerging economy. Nice people, great food, lots of poverty but also a quickly growing middle class, lots of business going on, etc.
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id like all of you to go back and read my words - two more times if necessary.
I'm not saying look at me/us - my shit dont stink!!!
I'm pointing out, as I said, things i know to be true through, yes I said it, research, word of mouth and media.
I let my racism show... as miniscule as it is, I admit I see some cultures in a bad light. I would never act on something i thought nor would i categorize a whole race or nation. But I can, like others, think what I want about the an overall culture or nation as a whole.
So, since, no, I haven't been there... Kindly tell me... am I wrong about the orange and red rivers? Am i wrong about the pollution that exceeds the US? Am I wrong about the orphanages mainly consisting of female children? Am I wrong that the nation as a whole treats their little girls at a lower lvl than boys?
Yes every country has its poverty issues and what not, But is my statement wrong in saying that, Even as America, The slobby, childish, racist, selfish, culturally defunct nation that we are... were in a better atmosphere - all around - than China?
If you had to choose between the two... living in the poverty stricken streets of china? or the poverty stricken streets of USA?