Chinese ego

I may get hit by bricks with this comment. I think it is a mentality as a nation that we can do anything Westerners do and have anything they have and better. Deep inside, we still have 3rd world mentality - we feel inferior but we are not convinced we are inferior. The way I look at it - it is a country in search of its identity and in the process of finding its identity, we copy from the outside world. Sadly, the country loses its own identity and personality as a result. I don't think it's celebratory when all Chinese cities look like major metropolitan areas in the West (as the trend goes, it certainly appears that way and more so). China has the most and the tallest buildings in the world does not make it the best developed country either. Go to any US town (even the tiny little towns with population little over 100), you'll notice two things that many larger Chinese cities do not have - a library and a museum preserving the town's bunny tail history. You have to respect how much Americans value and feel proud (or arrogant about) their short history. Unfortunately, we build more bars than meseums and more visitors to bars than to museums. I'm not trying to be negative about what's going in China. What I'm saying is westernizing does not make China a better country.

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• 回复：maybe you feel inferior, -P-Rock- ♂ (128 bytes) () 10/19/2004 postreply 18:38:39