Borders

President Camacho · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 8:29 pm Post subject: Borders

I was going to post something like this in my blog but it wouldn't let me post it so I got infuriated and killed the entire blog!! AAAHHRRRGGHH!!
RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE!!!

The east and west have never completely shared a single culture. The east, it seems, has attempted to hide its people from western culture such as the west has never done in such a degree.

The east has protected their culture in a way that a turtle would envy. Most of this is due, I feel, to different political policies throughout most of the histories of the major Asian civilizations which include China, Japan, as well as other southeastern Asian societies.

Doesn't it seem that these countries like to turn in on themselves and cut out the outside world and the influence of other cultures? I think about China's history, Japan's attempt to cut out the West (Perry/Black ships), the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and the West's sordid history in Vietnam.

It's a different approach than the west has taken to achieving a distinct culture. The west assumes that might is right. That hegemony has the ability to legitimize a certain culture while whoever is failing to be the best obviously has a flaw with their culture and should change in order to meet the challenge.

The East seems to rely on their own traditions, right or wrong, as long as they're their own...or at least it seems. Today, most of these countries are adopting western ways of doing things such as Japan, China and now Vietnam but the instinct and desire to fold in on themselves seems ever present.

Take for instance China and the Olympic torch madness. Now Chinese people seem to be highly nationalistic and really feel that China is owed respect for its economic success. Like the West should nod or kowtow in approval of China's rise to POWER!

This is still a communist country. This isn't a democracy that values human rights. Why should anyone consider them in the 'right' due to their new economic 'might'. The Chinese people are sorely disillusioned if they think that this is how they can earn the respect of the western cultures.

Stupid comes to mind... and stupid is dangerous when it is replaced by frustration and anger. The Chinese government better start educating their people on how they can earn the respect of the West before they get so angry that they wind up revolting against their own government because they haven't achieved the dues they feel they're owed.

Ophelia · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject:

Oh, so that's what happened?!!

I tried to read your blog today and couldn't find it...

I hope it's not irretrievably lost.

Ophelia · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 1:05 pm Post subject:

DWill · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 8:17 am Post subject:

Ophelia · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject:

DWill wrote:


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