For all Occidental civilization this will be one of the perils from within. It is true that the author of National Life and Character did consider the possibility of a military awakening of China; but he also expressed his belief that it was the least likely of events, and could hardly be brought about except through the prior conversion of all China to th warrior-creed of Islam. Report Abuse, Sorry, should have mentioned that my reply was to Wolff, Dec 22, 2011 18:20 Elsewhere, majorities in South Korea (59%) and China (57%) also say homosexuality should not be accepted by society; 39% and 21%, respectively, say it should be accepted. chap xii. What we have to acknowledge, as Chinese, is that if we cannot appreciate our own country's brands, traditions and appearances, media can't as well. end it already! All future civilization may be affected by such domination; and even the fate of the Western races may be decided by it. The rude shock given by the book to the Western pride of race, to the English sense of stability in especial, to that absolute self-confidence which constantly impels us to the extension of territory, the creation of new colonies, the development of new resources reached by force, without any suspicion that all this aggrandizement may bring its own penalty, provoked a state of mind unfavorable to impartial reflection. This site is using cookies under cookie policy . They simply want to copy the western culture, w/o knowing the causes & reasons behind it. It provoked murder and pillage even under the tolerant role of the Arabs in Spain;' and the attitude of Mohammedan races toward the Jews in Africa and in Asia has been, on the whole, scarcely more tolerant than that of Christian nations. Now that other countries won't take our papers and plastics, they're ending up in the trash. Mr. Mahaffy has written a book to prove the English boy superior to the Greek boy; but his argument involves the denial of facts accepted by equally good authority. Russia cannot be trusted with the control of those hundreds of millions and a partition of Chinese territory would present many difficult problems. The original blog is at: http://blog.chinadaily.com.cn/blog-2092263-30147.html. But this truth itself is older by thousands of years than Harvey; for it was spoken, long before the age of Christ, by this lips of the Buddha. Western influence in China affected the Chinese economy in three ways: Westerners introduced modern transportation and communications, created an export market, and integrated the Chinese market into the nineteenth century world economy. to encourage healthy and productive dialogue we ask that all comments remain polite, free of When Laowai Ladies meet Chinese Gentlemen: The different dating A Balanced Look at Chinas Education System, Strange Chinese Jobs You No Longer See in the West. peace ya'll ^_^, Dec 15, 2011 18:59 I personally know, however, that in some provinces there has been yet practically no rise in wages worth mentioning. Jan 14, 2018 14:12 Abroad the conditions were otherwise. Older history presents us with facts of a totally different character, with numerous instances of this subjugation of the civilized by the savage, and of the destruction of a civilization by barbarian force. Can China be forced to develop herself as Japan has done ? Kathleen McLaughlin is a Beijing correspondent for our partner GlobalPost. 2. Unless you're a tea fanatic whose lips will only let pass liquid from a thimble-sized porcelain cup with floating leaf matter in it (this does stil exist), you'll agree that the rise of a coffee culture is a good thing not least because of all the new, clean Western toilets you now have access to for that dreaded rumble of the stomach after a strong brew. so, you're the same guy that is engaged to a Chinese woman and will now be taking her away from this country you love and defend so much? He's a spokesman for Baidu, China's top Internet site, and a well-known local rock musician. position. bring on the apocalypse ffs!! Now, we must remember, while considering the question of future race competition in the Far East, that the evolution of Occidental civilization from the militant toward the industrial state is yet far from complete, as its propensities to aggression bear witness; while the Chinese, however much below our level in certain phases of development, are a people that reached the industrial type of society thousands of years ago. Spasmodic attempts at revolution followed; but some of dices exhausted themselves in the murder of a few foreign missionaries and in foolish attacks open mission statements, with the usual consequences of Christian retaliation,executions and big indemnities; and ether uprisings, even in the Mohammedan districts, have failed to accomplish anything beyond local disorder. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the worlds largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. "Seeing protests and the response to it is countering the narrative that he likes to put forward, which is that China is so much more effective at government," Haines said. China has not approved any foreign COVID vaccines, opting for those produced domestically, which some studies have suggested are not as effective as some foreign ones. It lies to the North of the foothills of vindhya. Thrifty and patient and cunning as Jews, the Chinese can accommodate themselves to any climate and to any environment. I think that Chinese people like the influences of Western culture much better than the Chinese government views it. This delusion is that all weaker peoples are destined to make way for the great colonizing white races, leaving the latter sole masters of the habitable world. Doudou was even more offended by how the rules were rolled out, with no public input. Before we consider Dr. Pearson's views, another remark may be offered about the exaggerated belief of the Western races in their own unparalleled superiority. Thus the populations of the Straits Settlements and of British India steadily increase. The average of Jewish ability surpasses that of the so-termed Aryan in a far greater variety of directions than is commonly known. Just remember, ANY girl would leave YOU if it was easy for her, not just an American girl. China must pass under the domination of Western civilization; and this simple fact will create the danger to which Dr. Pearson called attention. The state of Spanish and Portuguese tropical colonies in both hemispheres tells eloquently the story of the limits set by nature to white expansion. Hence the phenomenon that a non-Aryan race, able and willing to adopt Western civilization, or even to submit contentedly to its discipline, will begin to multiply more rapidly under the new conditions, even while those conditions entail forms of suffering previously unknown. And that really attracts me. But, my guess is, yours aren't even your own; you yourself are probably just spewing patriarchal, egotistical, self-centered nonsense because that is the established, albeit eroding and proven-to-be-very-socially-destructive system. But these restrictions could stifle the very creativity the country needs to develop. China has now absorbed Western culture in order to improve their economy and open doors to the global market, and they have also assimilated Western culture. The history of the various English, French, and Dutch colonies yields wide evidence that many weaker races, far from vanishing before the white, greatly increase in number. Very possibly she will be long allowed to retain her independence in name, after having lost it in fact. They are said to have provoked, by threatening the existence of Dutch rule in Java, the massacre in which nine thousand of their race perished. The waist sizes of many Westerners were once double that of most Chinese. Such extinctions have been comparatively recent, and for that reason undue importance may have been attached to them. Now the government is pushing back. First, they issued edicts that killed. A fourth is that the declaration of war was designed to strengthen the hands of certain statesmen by creating a military revival. Here, however, there come up some doubts to be considered. On this subject the St. James Gazette was particularly eloquent; and a few of its observations are worth quoting, as showing the fancies excited in some English minds by the first news of the Japanese triumphs:, The Japanese dynasty would make no startling changes; China would still be China, but it would be Japanned China. An army and a navy, an organization by land and sea, would grow up under the hand of the Mikado. Report Abuse. Animal cleanliness is not to be sniffed at, but the rainbow -coloured Poodles and pony-tailed Pekinese gracing China's streets look as absurd as they do miserable. Report Abuse. Now, of course, two wheels have been replaced for four and horns cry out through the evening rush hour as commuters sit in some of the world's longest traffic jams. walmart in china has been known to sell expired food. History shows that emerging Asian powers have, on occasion, used established and dominant Western cultures as models in the course or cause of their development. This is what ordinary people like to watch. that should be something that is never emulated. Listen to the trailer for. This estimate, which may seen; prodigious to some, is confirmed by the quick intelligence and high culture of the Athenian commonalty, before whom literary works were recited, and works of art exhibited, of a far more severe character than could possibly be appreciated by the average age,the calibre of whose intellect is easily gauged by a glance at the contents of a railway bookstall . But just as English critics of the late war ignored the real cause of that war, the huge westward surge of forces that compelled it, so do they now ignore the fact that the same war has set in motion forces of another order which may change the whole future history of mankind. The way they dress influences how we dress. Second are dramas with contents of immortality, moral and ethical betrayals. Click here to get an answer to your question Has China completely rejected or accepted Western culture? If we could raise the average standard of our own race only one grade, what vast changes would be produced! I The Occidentals may conquer and rule, but they have even less chance of multiplying at the expense of Chinese than of multiplying at the expense of Hindus. This surface-rippling is complicated to such a degree that it can be accurately noted only by the help of instantaneous photography. We imitate how they skateboard. Freedom is what Hou, the skater, talks about when asked what he likes about Western culture. The government, however, has also begun Internet crackdowns in the name of fighting off Western culture. The people would soon submit to any rulers able to enforce law and order, while not interfering too much in matters of ancient custom and belief. Subscribe to Heres the Deal, our politics But I can't be as easily satisfied as before, so I feel a bit disappointed. Probably the remark will be made that its disappearance was due chiefly, as Mr. Galton seems to believe, to moral laxity. In one episode, a poor man who sells duck necks for a living dresses up like a suicidal pig to try to earn money for a karaoke parlor for his wife. This might seem like a petty problem, however, it is an example of how much we're influenced by Western culture, no longer proud of the Oriental culture of China just because we don't see it in the media.. That of land under wheat and bailey is put at 58.5 per cent, and of land under rice at 8.4. Interference was, of course, inevitable; but the danger imagined from Japan reappears in another form as a result of the interference. I hate to think of all the sadistic, controlling shit your wife has to go through, just so you feel secure in your masculinity, and with who you are. Thank you. Report Abuse, money and lies, you must have been in hk/tw, Jan 14, 2018 14:42 From DVDs, to Apple stores, 'Mister Christmas' and entire Austrian villages, China's copy-cat culture is well documented. Pessimistic as Dr. Pearsons views seemed to most readers at the time when his husk was first published, they now command more attention than was accorded to them before the late war between China and Japan. another thing that bothers me about western culture is how they sensationalize singers, and actors who were never meant to be sensationalized to begin with. It was evident that the Japan of 1894 could execute without difficulty the famous menace uttered by Hideyoshi in the fourteenth century I will assemble a mighty host, and, invading the country of the great Ming, I will fill with the hoar frost from my sword the whole sky over the four hundred provinces. The idea of a China dominated by Japan at once presented itself to English journalists. The assimilative genius of the race is the proof. By remaining otherwise unchanged, she will become, not less dangerous, but more dangerous. The worlds finances are practically in the hands of a race persecuted by Christianity for thirteen centuries,a race undoubtedly modified in the Occident by large interfusion of Western blood, but nevertheless markedly preserving its Oriental and unmistakable characteristics. And presenting this as a pushback against Western culture is a way of talking about control that doesn't have to use those words. See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays. The fate of China as an empire can scarcely now be called a matter of doubt, although the methods by which it is to be decided will continue to afford food for political speculation. China has rejected the next stage of a World Health Organization (WHO) plan to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. President Hu Jintao says China's culture is being infiltrated by hostile Western forces. The Oriental, with his power of retaining health under conditions under which no European could live, with his savage daring when roused, with his inborn cunning, lacks only the superior knowledge of civilization to be the equal of the European in warfare as well as in industry. The most serious problem created by the late war is much broader and deeper. Last summer, many Weibo users criticized the government after a notorious high-speed train crash that killed nearly 50 people. Wang Tingting, who works for an insurance company in Beijing, is certain that Western culture isn't taking over China. Chinese President Xi. Most youth in Chinese prefer foreign brands over Chinese brands. "It's, again, not something we see as being a threat to stability at this moment, or regime change or anything like that," she said, while adding: "How it develops will be important to Xi's standing.". Assimilative genius is not the characteristic of a people whose customs and habits have been conservatively fixed beyond the reach of change. And is not Western industrialism likely to be protected from Chinese competition by the irreducible character of Chinese conservatism? China's city ring roads and freeways, like the American roads they were built to resemble, now boast maddening congestion and choking pollution, the by-product of copying a Western urban development model. The trade mark is translated to "Goats" in English, as the result, the commodity sells badly in western countries. If you have money they will accept u however u are. i dont sympathize with feminism, but the west definitely doesnt resemble anything remotely feminist. Such fusion is even now visibly beginning. xiv. At this writing nothing appears clear except that China will be controlled, and that Japan has became a new and important factor in all international adjustments or readjustments of the balance of power in the Pacific. when china was comunist, people were very cohesive, and united, but as chinese begin to become individualized, you will see society fall apart. eChinacities.com without written permission from eChinacities.com constitutes copyright The combined Western powers might resist the first shock,might overcome the first five millions of Chinese riflemen and Tartar cavalry; but behind that would come other five millions, army after army, until Europe itself was exhausted and its resources drained. materialism is another thing that was adopted from the west, and it theres no doubt that its going to drive up crime, because not everyone can afford an iphone, so you will see people comiting crimes to buy that iphone. 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