Posted on 04/22/2008 6:31:59 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
My sentiments exactly...and before NFA34, you could buy one of those for $15.00 US.
If not a BAR, then a Garand will do...
And everyone who calls himself/herself an American SHOULD already be armed.
Well, he does say* he got punched by a demonstrator. But now he's also saying that he wasn't in danger of being beaten to death and that no windows (in the taxi where he first tried to get away) were broken.
What I have heard is that Chinese are staying away from Carrefour for partly out of patriotic feeling and partly out of a fear of being beaten. There is also a feeling of Chinese power - that Carrefour and other foreign companies can be brought to their knees by Chinese boycotts.
What happened to this American is the closest equivalent of what happened to the Chinese Olympian where an alleged pro-Tibet demonstrator is said to have tried to douse the flame of the Olympic torch in her hands. Except that unlike the torch event, the Chinese demonstrator was simply trying to beat up the American.
* I have to say that I'm a little suspicious of his explanation. Was he lying initially in the manner that anglers talk about the size of their catches? Or was he lying at the end because that was a condition of a continued stay in China? Where personal recollections are concerned, my personal view is that first impressions are the most accurate ones, unfiltered by other agendas.
I’m thinking we’ll have to agree to disagree...but as a mei guo ren, having travelled parts of China from 1970 (actually is seared into my memory) to 1996ish, and having a deep respect for Eastern Mysticism, and an even deeper respect for the friendliest people on earth...I’m betting on China on this issue! (as does the Dalai Llama).
I think that is a better description of this situation (ie, so far, this situation hasn't been described at all....not that my description helps!)
the Nanjing Massacre changed all that.....just say’n
42 posts ‘til ‘the truth’.....Freepers are lagging a bit this week!
China” Goons and Junk”
“I can understand an outsized response if France had bombed the Shanghai Naval Base, destroyed the East Sea Fleet, and killed 3,000 PLA Navy sailors (the equivalent of what the Japanese did to Pearl Harbor). But what France did was play host to pro- and anti-Tibetan demonstrators and have a President who hasn’t quite decided if he will attend the Olympic opening ceremony. Pearl Harbor this ain’t.”
Gosh, a very good comparison. For these irrational and ignorant Chinese, foreigners are evils who try to harm them as it happened one or two centuries ago as described in Chinese history text books. It makes me so sad and bad at the same time because they can’t tell black from white and right from wrong. These Chinese people suffer from Stockholm syndrome: siding/defending their hostage-takers against their saviors because they have been staying with their hostage-takers too long.
The reality is, the number of Westerners working and living in China will only grow in the coming decades.
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