I heared from this morning news over the radio updating that Dalai Lama is visiting Seattle beginning April 11th. He is going to have some 153,000 people to speak to for a 5-day visit here. The interesting part of this is that he is NOT going to touch upon recent riots in Tibet, however, he will continue his topics on "seeds of Compassion" (If I didn't hear wrong) which he had for his last visit here in 1993. The radio stressed his continued support of Beijing Summer Olympics. This also means his overall polacy hasn't changed much.
- Re: Dalai Lama coming to town (with 1 pic.)posted on 04/10/2008
Don't know if any Seattle chinese groups plan demonstration on his arrival or not? I believe it would send a message to him, U.S. media and the world...
I can't stand him now... - Re: Dalai Lama coming to town (with 1 pic.)posted on 04/10/2008
Don't know if any Seattle chinese groups plan demonstration on his arrival or not? I believe it would send a message to him, U.S. media and the world...
I can't stand him now... - Re: Dalai Lama coming to town (with 1 pic.)posted on 04/10/2008
- posted on 04/10/2008
I don¡¯t know why your feeling is so different from most Chinese here; maybe you have good reasons ¡
But let me tell you, my love for the motherland is real and is in the blood. This doesn¡¯t mean I don¡¯t love USA. I do. I guess when you live in U.S. long enough; you get to know what¡¯s really going on in this country and the true colors of some people. You¡¯ll understand my feeling much better.
There are some western people who are truly against Chinese and Chinese interests no matter what¡ They will do whatever they can to stop/slow down Chinese progress and undermine Chinese interest¡
I¡¯ve been reading a book lately about Korean War (to help myself put Tibet events into a big picture around the 50s). One example shows how ignorant and arrogant Americans are. This book titled ¡°The Forgotten War¡± was published in 1987 and it¡¯s more than two inches thick (> 1000 pages), but the author wrote through the entire book that Lin Biao is the Chinese Commander in Korean War. He doesn¡¯t know it was not Lin Biao but Peng Dehuai. This is just an example of how ignorant they are. They don¡¯t bother to check any info about China and Chinese commander. I¡¯m sure they are plenty info available in Chinese in 1987. Inside the book, you can see plenty of examples showing American¡¯s arrogance and contempt toward Chinese. I used to think Mao should not enter Korean War (because so many young chinese were killed there), but after reading this book and some of the other books (published in U.S). My view has changed dramatically¡
Hope this explains some of my reasons¡
- posted on 04/10/2008
I truly go for Xy on that. Before we came to the the West, we knew nothing about outside world thinking and acting with the gov. ed. and propaganda telling us we were the best all over the world, as well as the slogan saying"Self Reliance and hard struggle". But when we are outside the country and look back where we were and what we did, and/or from a different place and angel, we started to figure out we were mislead. So, we started to worry and care about this piece of land where we were born and grew up. That's perfectly normal for any Chinese to be a "proud Chinese" if s/he'd like to even live better in the West. Therefore, even though we can't do anything sensational, our patriotic hearts will travel with us anywhere in the world.
I always see stickers in the rear bumpers of American cars:" I am proud to be an American". Are we proud of ourselves to be Chinese?
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