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Originally Posted by willravel
A government spying on it's people is culture? You sure you want to go down that road?
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HAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAAAA!!!!!!
A people's history that dates back to 2000 BC sure as hell is culture.
Mmmhmm, considering America also spies on its people and we consider ourselves VERY cultured.... we're walking that road, brother.
Whatever, man.
China's got a rich and diverse history. It will rise up as a world superpower on its own, without relying on the West.
Plenty of local Chinese have a bad impression of Americans as loud, obnoxious, know-it-all, arrogant ignoramuses and hypocrites who decry the Chinese government while aggressively courting cheap labor. Wonder why.
There's a long history of Western countries (and Japan) trying to invade and carve up China. Hence the caution about opening trade up. Ain't nothing wrong with focusing on domestic growth. Who wants to see McDs and Starbucks' take over China when you can get awesome homegrown fastfood chains and homegrown industry?
Please, go ahead and argue for the sake of FREE SPEECH FREE SPEECH! And condemn China for its censorship but you don't live there and you've never been there (it seems) and you aren't going there... so it's nothing but uninformed armchair protesting from a citizen of a country that's equally guilty of censorship and misinformation.
We've got our own problems in the States to deal with. Like the severe lack of World Cultures education in our schools. Or the censorship. Or the human rights violations. Or the preemptive war. Or the lack of health care. Or the income gap. Or the way the lack of information and proliferation of media spin conveniently keeps our citizens ignorant and easy to herd like cattle.
Sounds like it's time to get educated.