BBC article comments
While their articles are usually interesting, if not a bit human rights biased (they rarely let a chance slip by), I find the comments left by other readers more informative.
Today I spent a fair bit of time going over China related articles. With a quickly growing economy, out pacing their social systems, and what I consider to be an unstable country anyway... it's a particular interest. There seem to be a fair number of regular Chinese readers of BBC. I'll focus an article about Wo Weihan (sp?), a man who was recently executed by the goverment as a spy.
Now, in these comments there are at least a dozen non-native english speakers, most of which I can identify through user names or typical ackward phrases to be Asian. There is an equal number of "western" commentors.
The westerns openly critisize the chinese government for their secracy and constant hidden legal system, while the Chinese defend it defiently.
Cross cultural communication every which way. It's partialy the western way to critisize goverments and debate sentences and be opinionated. We are also general more human rights oriented, quite possibly too much. And through both insitutional learning, media, movies and history we have a perspective of China that they mislead their citizins, and in a way brain wash them. Cultural Revolution anyone?
Yet here are Chinese people, those who some westerns consider to be ignorant of their own country, saying that it is actually the west who is ignorant, because they fully trust and believe in their government. Some of those commentors said that this is a China affair, western opinions don't matter, and the west was attempting to oppress China. They, overall, were twice as likely to be censored (their comments deleted) for offensive comments.
I wonder what war they'll be in next?
Today I spent a fair bit of time going over China related articles. With a quickly growing economy, out pacing their social systems, and what I consider to be an unstable country anyway... it's a particular interest. There seem to be a fair number of regular Chinese readers of BBC. I'll focus an article about Wo Weihan (sp?), a man who was recently executed by the goverment as a spy.
Now, in these comments there are at least a dozen non-native english speakers, most of which I can identify through user names or typical ackward phrases to be Asian. There is an equal number of "western" commentors.
The westerns openly critisize the chinese government for their secracy and constant hidden legal system, while the Chinese defend it defiently.
Cross cultural communication every which way. It's partialy the western way to critisize goverments and debate sentences and be opinionated. We are also general more human rights oriented, quite possibly too much. And through both insitutional learning, media, movies and history we have a perspective of China that they mislead their citizins, and in a way brain wash them. Cultural Revolution anyone?
Yet here are Chinese people, those who some westerns consider to be ignorant of their own country, saying that it is actually the west who is ignorant, because they fully trust and believe in their government. Some of those commentors said that this is a China affair, western opinions don't matter, and the west was attempting to oppress China. They, overall, were twice as likely to be censored (their comments deleted) for offensive comments.
I wonder what war they'll be in next?