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THE PURPOSE OF THIS THREAD IS TO EXPLORE ATTITUDES ABOUT CULTURAL CHANGES AFOOT WITHIN CHINA. What may have been unacceptable just 5 years ago now seems in vogue. But the question is: Is this a localized abboration or a national change in what is acceptable under the culture of the new China? March 14th, 2008 at [...] WARNING: THIS ARTICLE IS A CROSS-CULTURAL LESSON, This is a story of two bridges on opposite sides of the world, one in China, one in California It is also a story of the difference between Chinese culture and American culture. EDITOR’S NOTE: THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WAS NOT WRITTEN BY PROFESSOR MARTIN WOLFF AND THERE IS NO COMMENT BY HIM EITHER. It’s True, Asians Can’t Think, by Sin-ming Shaw,.May, 31, 1999 Time magazine article Until it abandons its twisted Confucianism, the region will trail the West. Quoted: Can Asians think? That is not a racist slur. It’s the title of [...] LIKE PIZZA – 地址：南岗区贵新街36-2号 电话：51952111 This thread was commenced on November 29, 2011 when it was discovered that a surprising number of Chinese teachers of English had no prior knowledge of “Uncle Sam” and could not understand the humor of “Uncle Roy”. In America everyone knows that Uncle Sam is a euphemism for the Government. It began more than 100 years [...] HONOR IRAQ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/world/middleeast/21honor.html?ref=world DOKAN, Iraq — Serving small glasses of sugary tea, Qadir Abdul-Rahman Ahmed explained how things went bad with the neighbors. It was not true, he said, that his brothers had threatened to drown his niece if she tried to marry the young man down the street. “We are not against humanity,” he explained. “I told my [...] The western calendar shows 2011 years of western civilization. Is this a slight to China’s 5,000 years of history or even anti-Chinese? Why does every country in the world celebrate Christmas? Christmas is the birthday party celebrated around the world. Who was born 2011 years ago and why all the fuss and recognition? The Conception of Jesus Foretold Mary, a virgin, [...] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/05/chinese-premier-wen-jiabao-criticizes-cultural-revolution.html China’s Leader Breaks a Taboo Nov 6, 2011 12:00 AM EDT In a startling break with official custom, Premier Wen Jiabao spoke out publicly last month about how his family suffered during the Cultural Revolution. On Oct. 25, an audience of 1,500 at Nankai high school in Tianjin turned out to hear the popular Chinese Premier [...] Mushroom farming is simple; keep them in the dark and feed them shit. This agrarian practice is also a favorite principle of some administrations as a form of crowd control. Keep them ignorant and feed them propaganda. In some hugh populations, with an overwhelming number of ignorant or even uncivilized citizens, who are highly emotional and react [...] Halloween is a holiday that glorifies evil in the world and is not celebrated by Christians. http://www.jeremiahproject.com/culture/halloween.html |
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