(…) when the animal’s fur is not needed (mostly with cats), the animals are put in a sack, and are then cooked alive in a barrel of boiling water (…)
How much of shark is in shark soup? Just the two fins, the rest is a waste…
(…) when the animal’s fur is not needed (mostly with cats), the animals are put in a sack, and are then cooked alive in a barrel of boiling water (…)
How much of shark is in shark soup? Just the two fins, the rest is a waste…
I think this says a little bit about a nation, when they show so little respect for life. Unfortunately, I think these signatures are going to mean *NOTHING* to the chinese government, but I hope I’m wrong…
For Chinese government, it’s not a problem to displace thousands of Chinese people from one valley or part of city to some remote locations in order to build a business centre or Olympic stadium…I suppose dogs or cats mean as little as a grain of dust.
However, one thing I must give back, China tries to do something to save Giant Panda bear, though Chinese government would do better preventing Panda’s habitat loss and fighting against black market.
sometimes I am really wondering what open means? Given that the world is so connected with easily accessible internet/flights or whatsoever, people are so out of touch of the real world.
Years ago, I was first offended and frustrated by how western people by and large held a stereotype of Chinese people and society which was obviously wrong or too general, if not out of malice, to the Chinese natives. then later, I relaxed after some time telling myself the ignorance isn’t mine anyway. Then even later, when I expanded those classic literature and technical paper and began to read Western news reports regarding Chinese. If I were born in the west, what perception would I hold about China and Chinese people and its government? probably the same as you. Then I even relaxed and accepted those misconceptions as matter of facts.
Sometimes I really feel fortune that I was born as a Chinese, Not because Chinese are better or worse, but because it’s much easier the east part of the world(Chinese for example) to understand the west than the other way around in a modern society, probably thanks to the wide-spreading of English. So that I may have less prejudice of the rest of the race.
If I were born in a western culture, I probable won’t have any interest in know the east. Chinese language/culture is hard and life is so short, I surely could find something else to do than knowing Chinese language or culture. Chances are I would never go there in my whole life if I want to. Stories about Chinese are mostly gossips while drinking beer and chatting with friends, the accuracy or correctness do not really matter.
@tom Thank you for your comment. It’s really interesting. Yes, I understand and agree that all this I’m complaining about is a matter of history, culture, tradition, of the fact where one was born and raised.
I understand that the matter of culture makes it normal for some nations to amputate thief a limb or and some nations demand a father “honourably” kills his own daughter if she does not want to marry chosen man… However, the understanding of the facts I have does not mean agreement and support of all such inhuman practices.
Our kind had made plenty of mistakes in its history. I suppose the western world was taking a lead for long time….clearing out Native Americans and Aztec, so called anti-heretic crusades, I and II World War, Cold War and number of occasions we nearly started III World War, bloody politics, demolishing Rain Forest, enormously large clear cuts in North America,…zillions of smaller and bigger but horrifying things we did in our history
It’s not about West or East. It’s about humans who are the most intelligent and at the same the most stupid, cruel and horrifying creatures on the planet Earth.
The sad thing is that we never learn from the history, on our mistakes. It’s XXI century. We carry iPhones in our pockets and we still continue doing the same stupid, primitive, horrifying, things. The only thing that changes is that we change subjects of our bloody activities.
I don’t agree with this and it does not really matter who does the thing, my close relative, anonymous person or the very Pope, I want to keep the right to express my critique.
By the way, I was not born in the Western world really but in Poland during socialism, in 1979.
I am sorry if you are offended by categorizing you into the west.
Informally, geographically and probably culturally, here we refer to Europe and North American as being west, while you probably refer to Eastern Europe or the ex-Socialism/Communism counties as east. If you ask an average person in the street, he would most probably regard any white man as a westerner.
The primary reason of my above response is that, something that apparently seems wrong or false or absurd thing to native people might be accepted by others remote as bold facts in nowadays world. Don’t get me wrong, I was not intended to criticize you, but sigh how vulnerable we all are in the face of misinformation.
Do Chinese people as a whole cats? No. no one of my acquaintance would accept that and will feel it disgusting. The Chines cannot even agree on the main food, 50% in the north love flour like noodles, the other half rice.
Does anyone happen to eat cats once and happens to be Chinese? Highly possible, considering that on this earth one is Chinese in every six people.
In fact, although I know that Cantonese(people in the southern Canton Province ) eat something strange. I never heard they like eating cats. Even if they do, if you look at the this page here(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong), they really cannot represent Chinese either in population or territory.
If you substitute Chinese for British, you probably would feel the same I feel about this “news”, and your first reaction would probably be : Really? If it’s not made up, there must be some story beneath that I do not know. anyway, I know British do not eat cats.