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Originally Posted by jgl  Hmm... China even played the political card in its bid. Claimed it would help "open and reform" the country. Funny that the government is now saying "keep politics out of it".
Chan13 makes a good point about dialogue. I've tried this a couple of times about sensitive issues (Tibet, Taiwan) and both times it's pretty much blown up. It's odd- a lot of Chinese people confuse criticism of government policy with criticism of an entire culture, when they are completely separate things. |
JGL - Your above expresses my thoughts, exactly.
Been almost branded "a traitor" to my face in the midst of HEATED "opinion sharing" with a particular PATRIOTIC local... Apparently, my ethnic Chinese-ness was "lost" because I was born and brought up in, so was "seduced" by all things "West".
It's strange how SOME immediately BRISTLE at ANY objection to the (often authoritarian) line taken by the Beijing central government. As IF to say anything to "offend" the communist ruling party is to "offend" ALL Chinese people ("all over the world", blah...).
In the West, we can openly criticise / bash the policies of Bush, and previously Blair etc, without their public whinging about the "hurt feelings" of ALL their respective peoples...
Yeah, government policy and "the people" aren't always on the same page.
