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In China, the internet likes murders.
http://szdaily.sznews.com/html/2012-03/29/content_1982521.htm#
As such.
Is this the future of all social networking sites?
Discuss!
As such.
Is this the future of all social networking sites?
Discuss!
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I wish I understood China and the Chinese better. To my perspective, culture, policy and a host of other things over there are very strange, but that's pretty much down to my ignorance and applies to whatever historical period in addition to the modern timeframe. I simply have a limited amount of knowledge about the peoples and history of the place, so I have very little context with which to discuss this.
We all learn a fair bit about Japan by proxy, even if it's just "This is in anime. It's not the way they actually do things, but this is why it's commonly expressed in animated cartoons." And South Korea, as a first-world nation pretty much entirely accepted into the West, is one we can expect to learn a bit about without going to significant effort.
But China is an enigma to me, and pretty much always has been. I guess it doesn't help that the last few Chinese governments have been pretty horrible and the current one isn't that shit hot either.
Hmm...reading the article more closely, it only indicated that most of them clicked on a "smiling face". That's pretty ambiguous. It could mean "like" and there's also the tradition of Asian cultures to smile when they are stressed. If there were nasty comments accompanying the news story, it would be more conclusive.
^Chinese movies may be a start. Also, if there's a nearby Chinatown, you can pay a few visits. I don't know about the Chinese cultural presence in Australia, though.
Though Americanization, er globalization has shifted Eastern values a lot.
Melbourne has a Chinatown, although I've mainly used it to acquire awesome food thus far. Although it's, not surprisingly, more of a combined "Eastasiatown" in many ways. Korean and Japanese businesses, restaurants and the like tend to set up there as well. Finding any semblance of China alone in there would be difficult, as I'm more likely to find an East Asian hybrid culture plus some Australia.
And if I'm going to watch Chinese movies, more likely than not they'll be wuxia actionfests so I'm not sure how much insight they'll give me into Chinese perspective, schools of thought or politics.
Red Cliff was awesome, though.
I dunno, as an Asian myself, I "get" China a lot more than Japan. Japan is a bit weird even by E. Asian standards.
I can absolutely see people on Facebook cheering for the murder of the "right" person. There was plenty of enthusiasm when Osama Bin Laden was killed (and to be fair, I wasn't exactly in tears myself).
I just wonder what Chinese people have against doctors (if that's what it is). They're not the most obvious social group to resent.
Maybe hold outs from fans of China's old schools of medicine that don't particularly care for western medical practices? I dunno.
Maybe the doctors will pay you attention only when you pay them under the table, and even then treat you like shit, because they're THE MOST SUBLIME AND LEARNED DOCTOR and you but a lowly patient immodestly craving their services. You know, the joys of socialism.
You know, being capitalist.
Well, that's a really good reason to hate the medical system, but a really lousy reason to hate the people in the medical system. Ideological zealotry is such a dehumanizing force whether it's this or cheering on Rick Perry threatening to execute people.
^^ You know, given what I know of China, it may easily be so that their healthcare is more capitalist than in most capitalist countries. And just so you know, since I feel like I stepped on some sort of metaphorical toe of yours, I wasn't even being ideological there.
It was just the stereotype of MOST SUBLIME AND LEARNED MIDDLE-KINGDOM DOCTORS that bothered me.
Since I am Chinese (ethnicity, not citizenship) myself.
So I hasten to explain the capslocked part had pretty much nothing to do with China. It's been said that in state socialism, in absence of wealth, social posturing is done through flaunting one's bureaucratic power. Take shop clerks, for example. Think of some that you know. And now, at least around here - before the '89, whenever you went to a shop to buy something in hope of buying something, you had to figuratively speaking kow-tow the woman in there so that she was in a good enough mood to provide for such a bothersome scum like you. That's the shop clerk. Now think how it would work with something as important as health. And the fun part is, it's been like 23 years since '89, and such attitudes have hardly been purged from state bureaucracy (company bureaucracies just rob you of cash).