Those of you who have spoken with me in the past year have probably been exposed to my feelings towards individuals from Mainland China, specifically my partner in writing two papers, but more generally about the vast majority of Chinese I have spoken to about political matters. Since this forum is at least mildly public, and it's probably a bad idea for me to rant and rave about an entire nation...I'm going to generally refrain. And clearly, despite my penchant for self-direct racist humor, this has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with a national culture. Besides my very bitter personal experience with an individual, I'm just going to refer to you two things.
1) What my Chinese partner posted on my facebook wall. I have heard multiple references to this on talk radio from Chinese students, and on campus. Ask any of your PRC friends about this.
2) An article in the NY Times today that is absolutely consistent with everything I have been encountering recently. (No, I don't really care about the political situation in Tibet...so that has nothing to do with my feelings on what's happening.)
I'll just say this:
The chances are very high that I will now withdraw myself from my earlier plans of working in and with China in the coming years because of the bitterness and disconnection I feel with so many of the people from the Mainland I've encountered in recent years.
I am enraged. I am frustrated. I am bitter. And I am disappointed. Ugh.
2 comments:
did you read the article about the duke student?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/
04/17/us/17student.html?_r=
1&scp=2&sq=duke+china&st=nyt&
oref=slogin
I did see that. It just makes me feel so...frustrated.
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