Comment Re:Want to know what it is like for real Chinese? (Score 1) 554
I had a collegue from the mainland that recently came to work in NA as a software engineer. Bright fellow!
When we discussed the events of Tienamen Square, he replied: "The students went too far."
His seriousness got me thinking...
The Middle-East and Orient, unlike the Occident, never experienced Humanism which, essentially, puts the greatest value in human life (not in a religion or any other ideology). Thus, in China, life is cheap.
You mix that up with totalitarian state propaganda and this is what you get: "The students went too far."
When we discussed the events of Tienamen Square, he replied: "The students went too far."
His seriousness got me thinking...
The Middle-East and Orient, unlike the Occident, never experienced Humanism which, essentially, puts the greatest value in human life (not in a religion or any other ideology). Thus, in China, life is cheap.
You mix that up with totalitarian state propaganda and this is what you get: "The students went too far."
