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Sunday, 08 March 2009

  • blood red moon
    shrouded in misty clouds
    chilled night breeze
    like the bare trees i sway

    drunken with bitter wine
    i stumble down this path alone
    like the warriors of old
    like the distant waters
    flowing
    along the sharp edge
    between hell and darkness

    the brightly lit town in the distance
    so innocent and ignorant
    it is not of my taste

    society, so naive and meaningless
    i will not embrace it
    this is my fate
    i shall stumble down this path of pain
    with open heart i welcome it

Thursday, 05 March 2009

  • I did some research around the internet over cultural views between Chinese and Japanese people.  Unsurprisingly, to a certain extent, both view each other with a significant degree of prejudice.  I have not found any Chinese literature that speak its view of the Japanese, however to my horror, in the most accurate description, I did find a Japanese literature that gave a most appalling description of the Chinese.
    The opening statement is that of  "Chinese people possess a feeble character , to best interpret Chinese kind humanity is best to ascribe that the Chinese as domesticated animal ." This sounds rather familiar, like a white elitist's view of the black slave in the 1700s.  Anyway, the rest of that blog talks about his extremely prejudiced and racist (rather understated) opinion and views of the Chinese people.
    I would like to input some of my response to his blog.
    In his blog he talked about how the Chinese people are rude and crude, an irony of a culture that views highly of respect.  Now, I have not experienced any Japanese culture first hand, but from what I understand about the Japanese culture is that it runs solely on this mentality of honne and tatemae? In other words, the traditional Japanese person holds his feelings inside and displays a rather different character on the outside; a more palatable character.  Simply stated, denial.  After all, if you live in a tiny island with over 120 million people, you do have to restrict yourself and force peace with your neighbors. Such is a major contribution to the suffocation of younger Japanese generation, as a result a culture of hikikomori is developed.  Hikikomori is a person who is single, living in his parents' house, and for at least a period of 6 months, he does not leave the house...at all.  A rather unhealthy social withdrawal that leads to a high rate of suicide and an even higher rate of mental disorder. 
    Such is an irony of a culture so widely accepting of the western influence.  Speaking of western influence, I remember a quote from a Japanese McDonald's Franchiser, he said that eating hamburgers and french fries for a hundred years will give the Japanese white skin, blue eyes, and blonde hair.  This is rather paradoxical of a culture with such arrogant national pride. 
    The blogger said that the Chinese people possesses an inferiority complex to the Japanese, something about how the Chinese people would almost shake in fear and anger in the presence of the Japnese.  I almost laugh at such proposterous assumption.  I would tell this guy to go talk to an average educated Chinese, as a Chinese I will tell you that the Chinese do not see the Japanese as much of an issue at all, the only issue with the Japanese is that it has become basically America's threatening stick to the Chinese. After all the Japanese has no military.  If anything I would say that the Japanese possesses an inferiority complex to the Americans (see previous paragraph).
    The blogger also stated that the present Chinese culture is hardly anything the way it was 400 years ago, and that its blood has been tainted by the Manchus and the Mongols.  That the Japanese should be the real Chinese culture.  Apparently the Japanese still applies the old and imperial view of China, now I do appreciate greatly the fact that the Japanese views so highly of our culture, however, what the Japanese lacks is the view of reality.  Certainly the imperial ages of China was all glorious and idealistic, however the Japanese never did learn to appreciate the fact that such glory and romance began with the common man.  It was the Chinese farmer who started a family, led his people, and finally to the stage of an emperor.  The Chinese people was many things, the idyllic famer, and the glorious emperor.  This guy saw only the glory and never learned to appreciate the "country bumpkin."  Since he brought the topic of bloodlines and how the Chinese people have been "tainted" by these many other cultures, I can only say that Japan is no different. Now that I think about it, doesn't he kind of sound like Hitler? Anyway, if you want to talk about mixing of cultures among Asians, you might as well drop it, every asian person, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, whatever, is a trail mix of many different people, there is no point in trying to argue that your culture is of superior because of your blood because that is 1. pure racism, and 2. the same argument could be made both ways.
    I realize my response to his ignorance is becoming over-worded, I will skip my thoughts and answer his first line of statement. "Chinese people possess a feeble character , to best interpret Chinese kind humanity is best to ascribe that the Chinese as domesticated animal ."  To those of you who do not know, he is speaking about how the Chinese people is willing to compromise so that they can agree with the opposite.  First of all, this idea to compromise is called humility, such is also found predominantly in the Japanese culture, otherwise the idea of bowing to each other would not appear.  Secondly, this idea of compromise seems very similar to the honne and tatemae philosophy yes? So in other words, I can say that Japanese people possess a feeble character...and so on.  And to say that the Chinese people would rather submit than to struggle is just plain unbased and unfounded.  I suggest you learn the modern Chinese history and then repeat that statement.  If anything, one can say that the Japanese culture would rather submit than to struggle, after all America said that Japan cannot possess a military, and voila. Hell, America even wrote the entire Japanese constitution, you tell me that's called struggle.

Friday, 19 September 2008

  • asdfasdfasf

    so this other day i met this girl online, apparently she felt "very strongly" against the chinese government on the whole tibet thing. now thats perfectly fine with me, this is america, unfortunately, i cant flog her for her beliefs. well anyway, so i let her go...then she said some shit like "me and my bro laughed when u guys had that earthquake".  so...now..that is going over the line...ALOT and i was like "o hell no she did not just say taht shit" i was like "wtf u serious?" then she said some shit about how she hates chinese ppl for the tibet thing.
    so..basically the story ended with me making examples saying that, under her circumstances, i would be justified to hate white ppl, or americans, watever u wanna call them, for enslaving and killing millions of ppl throughout its history. O and get this, apparently she likes japanese ppl...well... that makes no sense, after all japanese ppl, especially during WWII, bombed YOUR country, and massacred millions of ppl without justification, and yet u have a japanese fetish...good job.

    so the bottom line of this story is that, well...dont be ignorant. at least use ur brain every once in a while before u start making judgements.  cuz first of all, regarding the whole tibet thing, tibet has been under chinese control since the late ming dynasty, its been under chinese influence since the tang dynasty, and also the first dalai lama agreed to embrace the communist party in the 1950s. now i dont agree with the whole tibet wanting to liberate themselves from the chinese government, but then again i admit that i have not obtained enough information to make a proper decision.
    but to laugh and rejoice at the death of tens and thousands of ppl in that earthquake tragedy? that is extremely infuriating, that tells me that somewhere out there, there are ppl that do not see other ppl as ppl, apparently. They dont even see them as animals in this case, i mean if a bunch of dogs and cats got killed, u wouldnt laugh at that.

    i got alot of points to make in this post, but i guess my actual point is... well...STFU FOR A SECOND AND THINK ABOUT WAT URE SAYING.

    so, i hereby bluntly slap all of u out there who apply to the case mentioned above. (all of u meaning all of u who has healthy supply of information but do not use it to ur advantage)

Tuesday, 25 March 2008

Monday, 24 March 2008

  • k here goes..

    well umm....hmm where should i start. met a girl online...honestly i didnt think much of her at first but...after a while, cant stop thinking about her. i liked that feeling..especially when she does the same for me, it feels really good, it made me feel like...i had a purpose after all. honestly...i've always thought that i am the only guy whos not gonna get a gf till hes 30+...if not die a virgin at 80 or watever..i dk...call me pathetic and sht i dnt care. its how i was brought up. and especially with my peers and...several failed attempts...i still think that way. girls go for appearance, thats wat i still think... and it doesnt matter how many ppl tell me tahts not true...thats the fact for me. so...thats the main reason why i feel like im gonna be alone for the rest of my life. and no, it doesnt help if u live in a suburb 20 miles away from everyone and stuck in ur room 24/7. so...met this girl..we connect really well...too well i guess, and now this shit comes up..ppl tell me to just let her go, i cant... i see their point, think she just might kill me somehow but...nope i still want her back. no matter how crazy or impossible this relationship might go in the future. she was the first one that actually cared about me like that. and no its not any major things she does for me...but its the little things, maybe u dont and will never understand how "pathetic" i am, but...if u are a girl and...just the tiniest thing u do for me..will spark a flame. i see all these movies...see all my friends... they all have someone..someone they can hold and say corny things to each other, i want that...i want a person like that..someone who i can touch and hold and say corny things to her without feeling bad.
    now shes avoiding me...im pretty sure she'll go back to her bf after this so..watever....i still fking want her back. i spent so much time on her, she left this big gaping hole in me and i dk wat the hell i should stuff it with. and i swear to fking god AIM is annoying the fk out of me with the queer sounds ppl choose to log in and out.....ugh anyway. so i've been calling my friends...talking to them..trying to take my mind off of her..but anyway, i still dont think any girl would like me, so for someone like her...its...once in a life time i guess. and yes u will say something like "omg ur 18 u still have like 60+ years ahead of u" and i will say some sht like "omg...i havent had one decent relationship..at all...and it doesnt look like it will change much for the next 3 decades"
    and yea...if u read this thing u might say shts like "omg this guy is pathetic" well...i dont really care..thats how i think...and i dnt rly care wat u think. but if i do get in to a long term relationship...i would put my all into it, just like i did for her...i wouldnt really care about getting hurt in the end, i want to make my gf see just how wrong first impression is and just how lucky she is being with me.

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