Posted on 01/13/2013 7:13:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Americans know Jackie Chan best for his cheery, acrobatic performances in action movies such as “Rumble in the Bronx” and “Rush Hour,” made successful by his amazing martial artistry and self-effacing comedy. Chinese know Chan, a Hong Kong native, for largely the same reasons.
But they also know him for something most Americans might find surprising: He is passionately political, a staunch defender of the Chinese Communist Party and harsh critic of anyone he sees as opposing Beijing. Today, that includes the United States.
Chan, responding to widespread criticism of China’s recent censorship of a popular newspaper, insisted in a Chinese TV interview that the United States is “the most corrupt country in the world.” He scolded Chinese who criticize their country in a way that foreigners can hear or see, adding that he’s careful to only praise China when giving interviews in the U.S.
Here are his comments, translated into English by Ministry of Tofu, which also has the video. It’s worth watching to see how animated he becomes when criticizing the U.S. and defending China. I don’t speak Chinese, unfortunately, but if you’re like me then you can follow him a little by listening for the word “Meiguo,” which means America. (Fun fact: It translates literally to “beautiful country.”)
Jackie Chan: The New China. The real success has been made in the past dozen of years. Our country’s president also admits they have the corruption problem, and some other stuff, but we are making progress. What I can see is our country is continuously making progress and learning. If you talk about corruption, the entire world, the United State, has no corruption?
Host: America.
Chan: The most corrupt in the world.
Host: Really?
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What kind of ‘’corruption’’? Political, societal, economic? It does exist certainly. But if it were on the scale Mr. Chan alleges this nation would be done and over with in a year.
We are talking about corruption so from your post I gather that Americans are also not ethical?
Forget Jackie Chan, I reject his comments. However yes America is loaded with corruption, moral, cultural, and actual law breaking. It’s become a huge problem and totally unreported. Don’t be naive.
I’m not naive. If America were China, Mexico or Russia we’d be finished. For all this ‘’corruption’’ we still are a nation that functions by the rule of law and are a far more law abiding society than the others I’ve named. Don’t be so negative.
It’s all about the gay mafia. They control the entire entertainment industry, and if you want to get along, you go along.
If there is a perfect nation among the 190+ around the world, I've yet to see it. However, an honest study of the subject would not even put us in the top 50th percentile.
I'm especially not going to listen to criticism from an individual who made a very good living in the American market and supports a nation where you cannot even do a Google search on any subject.
On the question is the US the most corrupt, the answer is no. But it is well above the top 50th percentile ranking you give it.
The US is very corrupt
Name one way America is corrupt that China is not.
I did not say America was corrupt and that China was not. China is most certainly corrupt and at a day to day street level-as I said in earlier post.
But the U.S. is also very corrupt and at every level of government. The problem in the U.S. is that it is institutionalized, and there are no has been no harsh penalty when someone is caught crossing the legal line.
Ask your local district Atty why he does not prosecute local corruption. The point I made about China is they have severe penalties and going back to Jung Ze Min they have been going after corrupt party officials.
What exactly do you find disagreeable in the facts I have stated? What have I said that is not true?
A well thought-out answer and probably the most correct one.
It’s no surprise that Chen support Chinese governement.Because he makes money from China’s film protection policy.If Chinese government opens its film to American.He will lose a lot of money
I saw this quote from Jackie the other day and thought, “Yep. It sure is.” The thing about American corruption, though, can be best summarized in the words of Jake MacIllaney, “Never steal anything small.”
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