Posted on 07/03/2019 10:09:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Even better, you don’t have to buy dinner for everyone and maybe you end up with a threesome . . . :)
In manufacturing terms, you simply reduce cycle time by eliminating non value-added activities ;-)
to the communal good. They are both tibal based mentalities and we see that immediately and directly when looking at Africa. Tribalism for the communal good denies exceptionalism as it is a threat to the ruling power structure.
Where we really differ is within the Christianity of it. With the reformation we started answering the questions of self awareness, self determination, self actualization and self fulfillment. Thus the birth of entrepreneurs, something not generated within the communal constructs.
where you must submit.... and then have your history and heritage erased to get rid of the capacity to regress.
I took some classes with mainland chinese students at a US university. They were entitled, arrogant, conspiring, aggressive, dishonest, cheating, dumb, and ignorant. The thing that disturbed me the most was how sociopathic they were. They wore that same sh!t eating grin whether they were eating ice cream, or kicking a bum.
LOL, you just have to do everything faster...so it all might work out in the end! (depending on your, er...'performance metrics'...:)
The girl on the date sounds like a Kowloon-atic.
Almost sounds like China is cultivating this dissension so they can go in and take over?
The Chinese communists understand well that there is a place in the human psyche for religion or at least some kind of spirituality. They endeavor to fill that void as part of the indoctrination of youth.
I worked worth a women (CAD drafter) that grew up in China. She was extremely diligent worker but also one of the most stubborn people I ever worked with. She had the way she did things and that was it, if you just needed a simpler sketch made quickly she was highly resistant. We use to joke that the communists couldn’t break her so they cut her lose.
Anyway, she was oddly patriotic to China but would never discuss the politics of China.
Back to my original point, when she first went to school in China the kids were taught hymns that praised the party and government. They were much like the Psalms in the Bible.
“thinks the Communists will invade and occupy Hong Kong”
That is not their style.
They normally pursue corruption/intimidation of politicians and influential people, intense police state surveillance of the population (each individual, in great detail), and complete control over information/media.
Regardless of whatever happens in the short term, the existing organs of the Chinese Communist Party will relentlessly press on those fronts.
I had a very wise uncle who told me, “If you’re not in bed by 11 o’clock you might as well go home.”
“As an aside, get rid of any girl who picks a fight on a first date.”
That’s AOC to a T, everyone’s first date from Hell.
Uh, Nixon?
I know, right? I thought the same sort of thing about our first African-descended president.
If need be the Butchers of Beijing *will* send tanks down Nathan Road.
I come across them in the business world. Same thing for many of them.
Everything you said about mainland Chinese students is exactly what my husband has said about them during his years at Berkeley. Everything.
Yet I will bet if someone says they are from Beijing, Shanghai, or Xiamen that no one blinks an eye.
Had Harry Truman let MacArthur handle this problem long ago, there wouldn’t be a Communist nation anywhere in Asia today.
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