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Only a few decades ago, China was a country closed to the world, confined within itself. While other countries such as England industrialized, modernized itself, China remained traditional. Nobody really knew what was China, really, except that they had "pointy hats". Then, the outside pressure became too much and came Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China, who decided : "Enough is enough, we shall make China as strong as the rest". By that time China had allready about a century of catching up to do.
I, myself, did not really though about China so much and the socio-economic side (even though I've been there before), before somewhere in March, the Tibetian's revolt in Lhasa. Honestly, I didn't care so much, except when I realized this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQnK5FcKas. All those policemen we saw on the television was in fact nepaleese. The difference in the uniform was quite obvious, they wear cloudy-blue uniforms and the chineese has green, more militaristic uniforms.
Does that make China innocent? No! It is true that the human rights are not always respected, and tons of other things.
Is it bad? Now we hit a good question...
Like I said, China, while being over 5000 years old, is about one century late on the western countries. It is an example of how communist is evil, of polluters, and such. That is the image the media gives to us. Is it the true image?
Let's go back in history. You all know Japan, with it's Animes, Gadgets and Toyota cars. It's a modern country. That didn't happen by magic, though. It followed the example of the west and now, it's on the same level as them. I wasn't born when it hapenned, but according to (older) people I know, the western media blamed them as much as they blame China. The polluters, the bad example, etc. Not China though, they weren't scary yet. But now, no one would dare mess with China on the political level, so they use propaganda, do they not? And who's next? India, second fastest growing country. So....
1. Sure, China is a big polluter. They are over one billion people. That is about...18% of the population. They produce 18% of total emission. Not great, but they do have industries and technologies that were used 150 years ago. Not all modern. USA? 22% of total pollution, yet, they are merely 5% of the populatipn with 300 million. Europeen Union? 500 million (~8%), with 14.7% of emissions. Canada emits only 2,3%, but has merely ~34 million people.
That doesn't make China innocent, but isn't the western media giving them all the blame?
2. China...um...omits certain information in the news. Information that makes the governement look bad. That's not good at all.
Hell, with 1 billion people, you can't have everybody out of the slums by tomorrow, but all I see in the media is the slums. When it's nice building, it's nowhere near emphazised. I'm sorry, the west, but China has nicer appartements then here. Much more modern, and for the average person. Sure, the doctor has a little bigger condo (note that doctor isn't paid as much in China), but the average carpenter still has a more modern building then here. I'm not saying they have 60k Ft2 of yard, but in terms of materials of construction and such...better (I can testify that)
Yet 7 years ago, a house of the same value was total shit, as far as I remember. Only 7 years. Is the media still giving us information that is 7 years old, or are they doing it on purpose?
Talking about ommission, why are they showing us images of nepal (which is NOT located in Lhasa)? Perhaps it's because in Lhasha, the monks were NOT beaten by bamboo sticks?
Then, the social problems as the girls who get left out because families like boys better. Guess what? They didn't explain why. Just that China is a bunch of freaks. The thing is, in some rural areas, there is no pension for 70 years old. You need a SON to work for you, because a DAUGHTER is going to get married and leave home? Guess what? If we had contraception back in 1400 + only one child/family, I'm sure there would be such problems too, in europe, before america would even be discovered.
3. Olympics. More recent.
Oh no, a fake singer! Would anyone have noticed the fake singer if the maker of the ceremony wouldn't have said it? What if on western shows, they do it all the time but they just don't tell us? Ever though of that? Of course not, you wouldn't have noticed. It's just that the Chineese haven't learned how to be subtle yet.
Yeah, I'm sure China would have taken the risk to shoot down an helicopter. Sure. Well, who cares anyway, with 29,000 fireworks what if some of them are fake? What about the actual show itself, that beats the hell out of alot of other shows we've seen (even if the western camera had wrong angles and only showed 50%)? And don't tell me that we, here in North America, never fakes anything? We never use special effects, not at allllllllllll.
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I could go on for years of such examples, but you get the point. The media lies. It only shows the bad side, not the good side. And the bad side is actually things that have hapenned or would have hapenned, here, before we became a modern society. So tell me now, what do you think?
(I'm not sure the extend of how true my own arguments are, but that is why I post here, of course. To seek further the truth.)
I, myself, did not really though about China so much and the socio-economic side (even though I've been there before), before somewhere in March, the Tibetian's revolt in Lhasa. Honestly, I didn't care so much, except when I realized this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQnK5FcKas. All those policemen we saw on the television was in fact nepaleese. The difference in the uniform was quite obvious, they wear cloudy-blue uniforms and the chineese has green, more militaristic uniforms.
Does that make China innocent? No! It is true that the human rights are not always respected, and tons of other things.
Is it bad? Now we hit a good question...
Like I said, China, while being over 5000 years old, is about one century late on the western countries. It is an example of how communist is evil, of polluters, and such. That is the image the media gives to us. Is it the true image?
Let's go back in history. You all know Japan, with it's Animes, Gadgets and Toyota cars. It's a modern country. That didn't happen by magic, though. It followed the example of the west and now, it's on the same level as them. I wasn't born when it hapenned, but according to (older) people I know, the western media blamed them as much as they blame China. The polluters, the bad example, etc. Not China though, they weren't scary yet. But now, no one would dare mess with China on the political level, so they use propaganda, do they not? And who's next? India, second fastest growing country. So....
1. Sure, China is a big polluter. They are over one billion people. That is about...18% of the population. They produce 18% of total emission. Not great, but they do have industries and technologies that were used 150 years ago. Not all modern. USA? 22% of total pollution, yet, they are merely 5% of the populatipn with 300 million. Europeen Union? 500 million (~8%), with 14.7% of emissions. Canada emits only 2,3%, but has merely ~34 million people.
That doesn't make China innocent, but isn't the western media giving them all the blame?
2. China...um...omits certain information in the news. Information that makes the governement look bad. That's not good at all.
Hell, with 1 billion people, you can't have everybody out of the slums by tomorrow, but all I see in the media is the slums. When it's nice building, it's nowhere near emphazised. I'm sorry, the west, but China has nicer appartements then here. Much more modern, and for the average person. Sure, the doctor has a little bigger condo (note that doctor isn't paid as much in China), but the average carpenter still has a more modern building then here. I'm not saying they have 60k Ft2 of yard, but in terms of materials of construction and such...better (I can testify that)
Yet 7 years ago, a house of the same value was total shit, as far as I remember. Only 7 years. Is the media still giving us information that is 7 years old, or are they doing it on purpose?
Talking about ommission, why are they showing us images of nepal (which is NOT located in Lhasa)? Perhaps it's because in Lhasha, the monks were NOT beaten by bamboo sticks?
Then, the social problems as the girls who get left out because families like boys better. Guess what? They didn't explain why. Just that China is a bunch of freaks. The thing is, in some rural areas, there is no pension for 70 years old. You need a SON to work for you, because a DAUGHTER is going to get married and leave home? Guess what? If we had contraception back in 1400 + only one child/family, I'm sure there would be such problems too, in europe, before america would even be discovered.
3. Olympics. More recent.
Oh no, a fake singer! Would anyone have noticed the fake singer if the maker of the ceremony wouldn't have said it? What if on western shows, they do it all the time but they just don't tell us? Ever though of that? Of course not, you wouldn't have noticed. It's just that the Chineese haven't learned how to be subtle yet.
Yeah, I'm sure China would have taken the risk to shoot down an helicopter. Sure. Well, who cares anyway, with 29,000 fireworks what if some of them are fake? What about the actual show itself, that beats the hell out of alot of other shows we've seen (even if the western camera had wrong angles and only showed 50%)? And don't tell me that we, here in North America, never fakes anything? We never use special effects, not at allllllllllll.
----
I could go on for years of such examples, but you get the point. The media lies. It only shows the bad side, not the good side. And the bad side is actually things that have hapenned or would have hapenned, here, before we became a modern society. So tell me now, what do you think?
(I'm not sure the extend of how true my own arguments are, but that is why I post here, of course. To seek further the truth.)