What the Heck?! Thread (Closed)

[taxiya]

nowadays, labeling people of "Nazi", "Racism" and "Red" is just convenient excuses for political attack of opponents. The very same is happening right now in Europe, where a person refusing the policy of opening EU border would be labeled as Phobia or Racist.

So I don't give a rat-ass of the word "Racism" or what ever words like it.

 

[taxiya]

nowadays, labeling people of "Nazi", "Racism" and "Red" is just convenient excuses for political attack of opponents. The very same is happening right now in Europe, where a person refusing the policy of opening EU border would be labeled as Phobia or Racist.

So I don't give a rat-ass of the word "Racism" or what ever words like it.

To add more,

My contention to such labeling is, since when and from where did a neighbor gained the "right" of living under my roof without my acceptance or following my rule and value? Since when am I obliged to marry a stranger who I do not approve her dressing code and eating habit? I would welcome someone who accept my value, trying to adopt my value, sharing common interest etc. to live with me, otherwise go somewhere else.

If an outsider or a new comer come to my house and being treated in a way based on false image created by another outsider (Hollywood in case of the Nigerian complain), it is the outsider's obligation to prove that image being untrue, to prove his/her worthiness to live in my house, first and foremost. It is my kindness and maturity to learn that the image I got from somebody else is false, but it is not my duty. The bottom line is, this is my house, no outsider has any right-by-birth to it, I didn't force anyone to be here in the first place.

So my advice is, dress like a Chinese, talk like a Chinese, behave like a Chinese, eat and drink like a Chinese, then you will see the barrier gone.

The other thing about "(too) many Chinese in Nigeria", I have actually talked with a Kenyan colleague who complained similar thing. I asked her, why don't Nigerian government reduce the number of visa issuance?

The most ridiculous thing I heard was from another colleague from Uganda who complained that the Chinese in Uganda lives in closed compound without contact with Ugandans, he actually used the word "racism" to call it. I laughed at him and said, so because of "self-isolation" Chinese are racist? So if I don't join your party, I become a racist?

 

[AssassinsMace]

Let's not forget it could be a fabrication. Someone wrote an anonymous email... Did it actually happen or did the Huffington Post make the entire story up? Both are possible. Remember the anonymous post on Chinese social media posted right after the Arab Spring that called for a revolution at specifically "this place and time." And the only people that showed up were US Ambassador Jon Huntsman and the Western media gather in a square with Chinese people walking by wondering what was going on. All of the sudden they'll believe any anonymous post that the US Ambassador to China and probably every Western journalist in the region were there to record history? And then because the revolution didn't take place, they can claim the Chinese secret police arrested everyone involved before they got there. Just look at the arrogance involved to think just because of an "anonymous" post, a revolution is going to happen. They forget... they're anonymous posing as Chinese. But they're at least as dumb as they think of the Chinese because they thought they still carried the weight of being American that gave their "anonymous" post credibility believing that would inspire an actual revolution. Americans couldn't be that conceited, right? Just remember how Paul McCartney called for a press conference to announce he wasn't going to attend the Beijing Olympics because of how they treat animals in China. He has to call a press conference for that? Did he think a revolution was going to happen because the Chinese people were going to be denied the honor of his presence? Yeah the Chinese won't start a revolution over their own human rights being denied to them but being denied Paul McCartney... The same arrogance from Google or Hollywood.

 

[taxiya]

Let's not forget it could be a fabrication. Someone wrote an anonymous email... Did it actually happen or did the Huffington Post make the entire story up? Both are possible. Remember the anonymous email in China posted right after the Arab Spring that called for a revolution at specifically "this place and time." And the only people that showed up were US Ambassador Jon Huntsman and the Western media gather in a square with Chinese people walking by wondering what was going on. All of the sudden they'll believe any anonymous post that the US Ambassador to China and probably every Western journalist in the region were there to record history? And then because the revolution didn't take place, they can claim the Chinese secret police arrested everyone involved before they got there. Just look at the arrogance involved to think just because of an "anonymous" post, a revolution is going to happen. They forget... they're anonymous posing as Chinese. But they're at least as dumb as they think of the Chinese because they thought they still carried the weight of being American that gave their "anonymous" post credibility believing that would inspire an actual revolution. Americans couldn't be that conceited, right? Just remember how Paul McCartney called for a press conference to announce he wasn't going to attend the Beijing Olympics because of how they treat animals in China. He has to call a press conference for that? Did he think a revolution was going to happen because the Chinese people were going to be denied the honor of his presence? Yeah the Chinese won't start a revolution over their own human rights being denied to them but being denied Paul McCartney...? The same arrogance from Google or Hollywood.

very possible, we have seen this so many times, not only around China, but around the world. It just happened around the corner in another thread here.

A typical theme is this,

I write a story bashing my opponent anonymously, then I propagate the story using it as proof. When challenged the source's credibility, I blame my opponent for tight censorship for my own "inability" to verify. A self-authoring, self-directing, self-acting one-man-show.

 

[AssassinsMace]

very possible, we have seen this so many times, not only around China, but around the world.

Remember when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and she said she was inspired by the Arab Spring. How does it inspire her? Getting people to start revolutions in their own countries so the US doesn't have to spend the money and Americans lives for the regime change they want in governments they don't like? In a different tactic there was a traffic accident in Inner Mongolia that was reported in the Western media. It was an accident but what was emphasized was the person who died in the accident was Mongolian while the other driver was Chinese. The Arab Spring started in Tunisia because a simple street vendor was being given a shakedown by corrupt Tunisian police. Just think about the irony of how the Obama Administration is trying to exploit ethnic tension to get regime change. Do they want Nigerians to start violence in China so that the media can spin that against China? Maybe it'll spread to Africa where the West doesn't like China in Africa? Take a look at Obama's redline threat in Syria to inspire Syrians to fight against the government that the US knew they weren't going to follow through. They didn't care how many people died and they thought Assad wouldn't dare cross that redline because it was America making that threat. That arrogance sound familiar?

 

[solarz]

Let's not forget it could be a fabrication. Someone wrote an anonymous email... Did it actually happen or did the Huffington Post make the entire story up?

The part about the Chinese girl in Beijing crossing the street in fear when she sees a black man is the most revealing part.

How often do you see black people in Beijing? Why would anyone in China fear black people when, even in cities like Beijing, you can count on one hand the number of black people you see in a year?

However, the comments sound much more in line with the beliefs of Chinese students newly arrived to North America, so it appears believable to readers who have never been to China.

 

[taxiya]

Remember when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and she said she was inspired by the Arab Spring. How does it inspire her? Getting people to start revolutions in their own countries so the US doesn't have to spend the money and Americans lives for the regime change they want in governments they don't like? In a different tactic there was a traffic accident in Inner Mongolia that was reported in the Western media. It was an accident but what was emphasized was the person who died in the accident was Mongolian while the other driver was Chinese. The Arab Spring started in Tunisia because a simple street vendor was being given a shakedown by corrupt Tunisian police. Just think about the irony of how the Obama Administration is trying to exploit ethnic tension to get regime change. Do they want Nigerians to start violence in China so that the media can spin that against China? Maybe it'll spread to Africa where the West doesn't like China in Africa? Take a look at Obama's redline threat in Syria to inspire Syrians to fight against the government that the US knew they weren't going to follow through. They didn't care how many people died and they thought Assad wouldn't dare cross that redline because it was America making that threat. That arrogance sound familiar?

hehe, I am now glad to make a joke on her. She either inspired the "springs" (the other way around), or she really want troubles to U.S. at home, if it is the later, she should be trailed for treason.

Actually, many of her and Obama's moves backfired and hurt U.S. interest than serving it. They think they will win by miscalculation of others' will to resist, at the end their lose abroad damaged U.S. interest.

 

[taxiya]

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[AssassinsMace]

The part about the Chinese girl in Beijing crossing the street in fear when she sees a black man is the most revealing part.

How often do you see black people in Beijing? Why would anyone in China fear black people when, even in cities like Beijing, you can count on one hand the number of black people you see in a year?

However, the comments sound much more in line with the beliefs of Chinese students newly arrived to North America, so it appears believable to readers who have never been to China.

Yes the media is transferring their cultural prejudices to other cultures. Look at when Japan was accused of racism because some politician made the same demeaning statements you hear in the US of blacks. Like universally everyone has the exact same racist views. No they were taught. Look at the Beijing Olympics where I read two articles from American sports writers where they wondered why Kobe Byrant was so worshipped in China like he was god. One added how come they're not worshipping Lance Armstrong instead of Kobe Bryant? Maybe because cycling is not a popular sport in China thus no one in China knows who Lance Armstrong is? But the gist of it is the journalist demanded that Lance Armstrong should naturally be worshipped by Chinese over Kobe Bryant or any Chinese period.

During WWII American women went to work in the factories while their men were fighting the war. That time is noted for exemplary factory production performance throughout American history. But when the war was over, the men came home wanting their factory jobs back and the women were expected to go back home. Many women wanted to keep their jobs. This was the start of the modern day feminist movement. That caused a lot of anger. Hollywood in the 50s made a lot of Korean War movies depicting Asian women as dutiful partners for American men and alternatives to American women because a lot of US soldiers were still overseas and they were reading the news of what was going on back in the states. Before WWII, Asian women were portrayed as Dragon Ladies conniving and plotting all the time. So this is why you have the stereotype of the subservient Asian woman especially for American men because it was a counter to the feminist movement.

I read an article about an African-American Korean War veteran's experiences. He said that when US soldiers that were on leave from the Korean War, they went to Japan for rest and recuperation. He said the Japanese women were very open to African-American soldiers. Here in the US you come across African-Americans that are part Japanese or part Korean of that age range. The white soldiers saw what was happening and didn't like it so they started telling the Japanese especially the women all their negative stereotypes of others to scare them. Aren't we seeing today how the specter of Western colonialism is being used to scare Africans of China?

Look at the story of the child run over by multiples cars before anyone did anything. The Western media reported it as if they were the ones to expose this in order to keep the narrative that no one in China cared if that a child was being run over and did nothing. There was already outrage in China to then why the Western media noticed to report it. How did the Western media know where to go to get this story if no one cared in China for them to expose it? Did they happen to be there themselves to do nothing to help this little girl so they can write the story they wanted to portray?

 

[Miragedriver]

I have a question for all the geeks (like myself) that watch Game of thrones. The opening credits of the show depicts a three-dimensional map of the series' fictional world, projected onto a concave earth.

One of the things that strikes me about this world is the peculiar seasonal patterns, with years-long summers and winters. Now, I may be projecting a more science-fiction slant on something that is more likely of pure magic or some other supernatural cause, but the intro inparticular seems to have the world placed in what could be described as a Dyson Sphere/Shell.

Things in favor of this theory are:
1) The intro surface is represented as being concave.
2) The sun seems to be drifting about over the surface of the shell (or the shell drifting around the sun) - potentially explaining the odd shift of seasons for long periods of time.
3) Apparently, in later books which I have not read yet, there are references to lost ancient technologies.
4) While not evidence in favor, there could be some device or series of devices orbiting around the star to periodically block light, simulating night/day.

Things against the theory:
1) The whole intro may be simply nothing more than a stylized and artistic tool for presenting the world to the viewer and prepping them for the places they will visit in any given episode (the cities shown change from week to week).
2) The presence of stars & constellations.
3) The existence of the "Sunset Sea" to the west of Westeros. Suns in Dyson Spheres never set - at least, not in the conventional way.

Next question was “how is it lit?” And obviously, If you have a whole world inside a sphere, what would be in the middle of that sphere? The sun! Or whatever the light source of this world is.