Traditional Chinese culture is fascinating to me. I pray that with the rapidly growing middle class, the people rise up and end communism.
I don’t think the middle class will rise up. They are having it too good now to put that lifestyle in danger with an overthrow of the government.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Chinese and I’ve got some thoughts/questions.
First, thanks to the host for this live thread. I was so happy to see it because I’ve always had a fondness for the Olympics, although I’m not athetic and don’t understand a thing about a lot of the contests.
As for communism, it’s not a good system but has anyone noticed that communism DOES seem to work but only with orientals. Think of Vietnam.
What seems to happen, the orientals are hard-working people who keep to themselves. China is the largest country in the world without any major religion. Yet China has never been involved in a lot of wars.
What seems to happen, communism gets them through until their inborn work ethic finally brings them rewards and a middle class, even upper class, emerges and the communism seems to dissolve.
I know I’m not making much sense but bear with me.
Another thing, I know China treats its citizens bad on so many levels but damn, there’s 800 million Chinese! If they were so unhappy there’s sure enough of them. Frankly I think the Chinese live in their families and their work and don’t much care what’s going on in the rest of the world. Look at how they are when they live in America.
Anyway, I’ll throw out what might be an unpopular sentiment. But not one country on the planet Earth has participated in the Olympics with such dedication as China. The Chinese are major players in every Olympics I’ve ever watched. Thus it seems fair that China should have a chance to host the events.
Anyhoo.....just a few thoughts to ponder.