I dont think Xie has ever got to the point of revealing his tiny member.
His personality is repellant enough to drive away even the most desperate female
His personality is repellant enough to drive away even the most desperate female
English ——The culprit of committing cultural genocide
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"Do you think the English language has been and is the world's biggest culprit of committing cultural genocide through its historically imperialistic, present-day hegemonic spread the world over, nibbling away the surviving spaces of other minority languages without shedding a single drop of tears?"
No.
Next question, please.
No.
Next question, please.
"Do you think the English language has been and is the world's biggest culprit of committing cultural genocide through its historically imperialistic, present-day hegemonic spread the world over, nibbling away the surviving spaces of other minority languages without shedding a single drop of tears?"
Yes.
Next question, please.
Yes.
Next question, please.
Antimoon K. T. Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:48 pm GMT
Let's not throw the word "genocide" around casually. It's like the word "nazi". Everyone someone doesn't like is a "nazi" now. In the future maybe kids will think that "nazi" means "not so nicey"...
So what are you going to do, Shuimo? Learn Esperanto?
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Compared with the officialese of the US Pentagon, Shuimo suppose that my use of genocide is probably an understatement to capture the on-going state-of-affairs!
Remember that how bombing and blasting of whole villages is prettified as pacification of the enemy infrastructure? Rings a bell of Orwellianism?
Let's not throw the word "genocide" around casually. It's like the word "nazi". Everyone someone doesn't like is a "nazi" now. In the future maybe kids will think that "nazi" means "not so nicey"...
So what are you going to do, Shuimo? Learn Esperanto?
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Compared with the officialese of the US Pentagon, Shuimo suppose that my use of genocide is probably an understatement to capture the on-going state-of-affairs!
Remember that how bombing and blasting of whole villages is prettified as pacification of the enemy infrastructure? Rings a bell of Orwellianism?
Of Course. When WE do the murdering it's acceptable and necessary pacification of terrorist subhuman species, when YOU do it, it's a genocide. That simple.
I think we are over simplifying things here. The U.S. has been guilty of actions that are far from what is right and humane. The war in Iraq was unjust, though it was being ruled by an oppressive and violent dictator. The war in Afghanistan, however, does meet the criteria for a just war. There are no incidences in either of these cases of genocide. A nation has both the right and obligation to defend its people. What China does to its own people and the people under its empire is far from being justified, however.
Is there an existent cultural imperialism over much of the world stemming from the United States? Yes. But is this a consequence of its power, the importance of its economy and language? Yes. Has there been and will there continue to be dominant cultures, languages, and economies throughout the world? Yes. Is this a deliberate effort to destroy other cultures and languages? It depends on ones perspective. There has been a deliberate effort to spread democracy and capitalism by the United States. Which can be seen as part of cultural imperialism. Yet, there has been no deliberate effort to wipe out languages or cultures.
Languages and cultures are disappearing, and that is something that has occurred for millennia, and we cannot expect, especially in an increasingly globalized society with increased travel and communication, for this to stop or even decrease. No, it will increase as we go forward. There will be more homogenization, but it will likely be one that incorporates cultural practices and languages from many different peoples. At the moment, Anglo and Chinese cultures are vying, whether actively or inactively, for the most dominant position.
Is there an existent cultural imperialism over much of the world stemming from the United States? Yes. But is this a consequence of its power, the importance of its economy and language? Yes. Has there been and will there continue to be dominant cultures, languages, and economies throughout the world? Yes. Is this a deliberate effort to destroy other cultures and languages? It depends on ones perspective. There has been a deliberate effort to spread democracy and capitalism by the United States. Which can be seen as part of cultural imperialism. Yet, there has been no deliberate effort to wipe out languages or cultures.
Languages and cultures are disappearing, and that is something that has occurred for millennia, and we cannot expect, especially in an increasingly globalized society with increased travel and communication, for this to stop or even decrease. No, it will increase as we go forward. There will be more homogenization, but it will likely be one that incorporates cultural practices and languages from many different peoples. At the moment, Anglo and Chinese cultures are vying, whether actively or inactively, for the most dominant position.
At the moment, Anglo and Chinese cultures are vying, whether actively or inactively, for the most dominant position.
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In what ways?
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In what ways?
<<At the moment, Anglo and Chinese cultures are vying, whether actively or inactively, for the most dominant position.
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In what ways?>>
As I stated earlier, the effect that the global economic powers have directly effect language and culture internationally. You ask in what ways the Anglo and Chinese countries are vying for dominance, my answer is in these ways, Shuimo:
http://www.heritage.org/RESEARCH/ASIAANDTHEPACIFIC/tst032008.cfm
China's Expanding Global Influence: Foreign Policy Goals, Practices, and Tools
by Lisa Curtis
Testimony
Testimony before
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
March 18, 2008
"China is expanding its diplomatic and economic activity in South Asia as part of an overall effort to enhance its global influence. The future direction of relations between China and India, two booming economies that together account for one-third of the world's population, will be a major factor in determining broader political and economic trends in Asia and will directly affect U.S. interests in the region.
China is wary of recent U.S. overtures toward India, especially the proposed civil nuclear cooperation deal and enhanced military ties, and views Washington's moves toward New Delhi as aimed at containing Chinese power in the region. Beijing seems to believe, however, that its best defense against any possible U.S. attempt to use New Delhi to contain it is through its own pursuit of better relations with India.At the same time, China is strengthening ties to traditional ally Pakistan and slowly gaining influence with other South Asian states to check Indian influence in its own backyard."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042203823.html
China Uses Global Crisis to Assert Its Influence
Along With Aid to Other Nations, Beijing Offers Up Criticism of the West
"Overseas aid and loans are just one way China is asserting itself in its new role as a world financial leader. While polishing China's own image, Premier Wen Jiabao and other top leaders have blamed the West for the global economic crisis. Chinese officials increasingly are challenging the primacy of the dollar, warning other countries about the danger of keeping reserves in just one or two currencies, such as dollars and euros. And as the global economic crisis has eroded faith in U.S.-style capitalism, there's growing talk that a new "Beijing Consensus" will replace the long-dominant Washington Consensus on how developing countries should manage their economies."
Special Report: China Storms Africa
By: Richard BeharSun Jun 1, 2008 at 1:00 PM
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/126/special-report-china-in-africa.html
"An unfathomably vast terrain comprising 49 nations, the sub-Sahara represents nearly one-fifth of the earth's landmass. Yet its total economy is tinier than Florida's. Here, 300 million people get by on less than $1 a day. Until they don't: It is the planet's biggest tomb, where compared to the 1960s, twice as many children under the age of 5 are now dying each day from disease; a bottomless badland where $500 billion of Western aid since World War II (more than four Marshall Plans) has barely made a dent in the poverty; a region whose market share of world trade is shrinking by the hour as it gets left behind, perhaps permanently, in the dust of globalization; a place so desperate for everything -- cash, trade, investment, infrastructure -- and so powerless to negotiate strategically, that it's pretty much up for sale to the highest bidder.
During my recovery, I had time to dwell on parasites, how they invade and deplete their hosts, much as successive colonial powers have done over the centuries in places such as Africa. Anyone who thinks that kind of ravenous acquisition of resources is a thing of the past should take a close look at the suction China is applying in the sub-Sahara. The region is now the scene of one of the most sweeping, bare-knuckled, and ingenious resource grabs the world has ever seen.
While America is preoccupied with the war in Iraq (cost: half a trillion dollars and counting), and while think-tank economists continue to spit out papers debating whether vital resources are running out at all, China's leadership isn't taking any chances. In just a few years, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has become the most aggressive investor-nation in Africa. This commercial invasion is without question the most important development in the sub-Sahara since the end of the Cold War -- an epic, almost primal propulsion that is redrawing the global economic map. One former U.S. assistant secretary of state has called it a "tsunami." Some are even calling the region "ChinAfrica."
There are already more Chinese living in Nigeria than there were Britons during the height of the empire. From state-owned and state-linked corporations to small entrepreneurs, the Chinese are cutting a swath across the continent. As many as 1 million Chinese citizens are circulating here. Each megaproject announced by China's government creates collateral economies and population monuments, like the ripples of a stone skimmed across a lake.
Beijing declared 2006 the "Year of Africa," and China's leaders have made one Bono-like tour after another. No other major power has shown the same interest or muscle, or the sheer ability to cozy up to African leaders. And unlike America's faltering effort in Iraq, the Chinese ain't spreading democracy, folks. They're there to get what they need to feed the machine. The phenomenon even has a name on the ground in the sub-Sahara: the Great Chinese Takeout."
http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/bg1916.cfm
China's Influence in Africa: Implications for the United States
by Peter Brookes and Ji Hye Shin
Backgrounder #1916
"Amid growing concerns about the People’s Republic of China’s burgeoning influence around the globe, Beijing has now set its sights on Africa. China’s interest in Africa is not new. In the 1960s and 1970s, Beijing’s interest centered on building ideological solidarity with other underdeveloped nations to advance Chinese-style communism and on repelling Western “imperialism.” Following the Cold War, Chinese interests evolved into more pragmatic pursuits such as trade, investment, and energy.
In recent years, Beijing has identified the African continent as an area of significant economic and strategic interest. America and its allies and friends are finding that their vision of a prosperous Africa governed by democracies that respect human rights and the rule of law and that embrace free markets is being challenged by the escalating Chinese influence in Africa.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) aids and abets oppressive and destitute African dictatorships by legitimizing their misguided policies and praising their development models as suited to individual national conditions. Beijing holds out China’s unique development model—significant economic growth overseen by a disciplined, one-party totalitarian state with full authority, if not control, over all aspects of economic activity—as an example for others to emulate.
Moreover, China rewards its African friends with diplomatic attention and financial and military assistance, exacerbating existing forced dislocations of populations and abetting massive human rights abuses in troubled countries such as Sudan and Zimbabwe. As a consequence, Chinese support for political and economic repression in Africa counters the liberalizing influences of Africa’s traditional European and American partners. China’s vigorous campaign to develop close ties with individual African nations also reflects Beijing’s global quest to isolate Taiwan diplomatically (seven of the 26 countries that have full diplomatic relations with Taiwan are African).[1]"
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In what ways?>>
As I stated earlier, the effect that the global economic powers have directly effect language and culture internationally. You ask in what ways the Anglo and Chinese countries are vying for dominance, my answer is in these ways, Shuimo:
http://www.heritage.org/RESEARCH/ASIAANDTHEPACIFIC/tst032008.cfm
China's Expanding Global Influence: Foreign Policy Goals, Practices, and Tools
by Lisa Curtis
Testimony
Testimony before
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
March 18, 2008
"China is expanding its diplomatic and economic activity in South Asia as part of an overall effort to enhance its global influence. The future direction of relations between China and India, two booming economies that together account for one-third of the world's population, will be a major factor in determining broader political and economic trends in Asia and will directly affect U.S. interests in the region.
China is wary of recent U.S. overtures toward India, especially the proposed civil nuclear cooperation deal and enhanced military ties, and views Washington's moves toward New Delhi as aimed at containing Chinese power in the region. Beijing seems to believe, however, that its best defense against any possible U.S. attempt to use New Delhi to contain it is through its own pursuit of better relations with India.At the same time, China is strengthening ties to traditional ally Pakistan and slowly gaining influence with other South Asian states to check Indian influence in its own backyard."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042203823.html
China Uses Global Crisis to Assert Its Influence
Along With Aid to Other Nations, Beijing Offers Up Criticism of the West
"Overseas aid and loans are just one way China is asserting itself in its new role as a world financial leader. While polishing China's own image, Premier Wen Jiabao and other top leaders have blamed the West for the global economic crisis. Chinese officials increasingly are challenging the primacy of the dollar, warning other countries about the danger of keeping reserves in just one or two currencies, such as dollars and euros. And as the global economic crisis has eroded faith in U.S.-style capitalism, there's growing talk that a new "Beijing Consensus" will replace the long-dominant Washington Consensus on how developing countries should manage their economies."
Special Report: China Storms Africa
By: Richard BeharSun Jun 1, 2008 at 1:00 PM
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/126/special-report-china-in-africa.html
"An unfathomably vast terrain comprising 49 nations, the sub-Sahara represents nearly one-fifth of the earth's landmass. Yet its total economy is tinier than Florida's. Here, 300 million people get by on less than $1 a day. Until they don't: It is the planet's biggest tomb, where compared to the 1960s, twice as many children under the age of 5 are now dying each day from disease; a bottomless badland where $500 billion of Western aid since World War II (more than four Marshall Plans) has barely made a dent in the poverty; a region whose market share of world trade is shrinking by the hour as it gets left behind, perhaps permanently, in the dust of globalization; a place so desperate for everything -- cash, trade, investment, infrastructure -- and so powerless to negotiate strategically, that it's pretty much up for sale to the highest bidder.
During my recovery, I had time to dwell on parasites, how they invade and deplete their hosts, much as successive colonial powers have done over the centuries in places such as Africa. Anyone who thinks that kind of ravenous acquisition of resources is a thing of the past should take a close look at the suction China is applying in the sub-Sahara. The region is now the scene of one of the most sweeping, bare-knuckled, and ingenious resource grabs the world has ever seen.
While America is preoccupied with the war in Iraq (cost: half a trillion dollars and counting), and while think-tank economists continue to spit out papers debating whether vital resources are running out at all, China's leadership isn't taking any chances. In just a few years, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has become the most aggressive investor-nation in Africa. This commercial invasion is without question the most important development in the sub-Sahara since the end of the Cold War -- an epic, almost primal propulsion that is redrawing the global economic map. One former U.S. assistant secretary of state has called it a "tsunami." Some are even calling the region "ChinAfrica."
There are already more Chinese living in Nigeria than there were Britons during the height of the empire. From state-owned and state-linked corporations to small entrepreneurs, the Chinese are cutting a swath across the continent. As many as 1 million Chinese citizens are circulating here. Each megaproject announced by China's government creates collateral economies and population monuments, like the ripples of a stone skimmed across a lake.
Beijing declared 2006 the "Year of Africa," and China's leaders have made one Bono-like tour after another. No other major power has shown the same interest or muscle, or the sheer ability to cozy up to African leaders. And unlike America's faltering effort in Iraq, the Chinese ain't spreading democracy, folks. They're there to get what they need to feed the machine. The phenomenon even has a name on the ground in the sub-Sahara: the Great Chinese Takeout."
http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/bg1916.cfm
China's Influence in Africa: Implications for the United States
by Peter Brookes and Ji Hye Shin
Backgrounder #1916
"Amid growing concerns about the People’s Republic of China’s burgeoning influence around the globe, Beijing has now set its sights on Africa. China’s interest in Africa is not new. In the 1960s and 1970s, Beijing’s interest centered on building ideological solidarity with other underdeveloped nations to advance Chinese-style communism and on repelling Western “imperialism.” Following the Cold War, Chinese interests evolved into more pragmatic pursuits such as trade, investment, and energy.
In recent years, Beijing has identified the African continent as an area of significant economic and strategic interest. America and its allies and friends are finding that their vision of a prosperous Africa governed by democracies that respect human rights and the rule of law and that embrace free markets is being challenged by the escalating Chinese influence in Africa.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) aids and abets oppressive and destitute African dictatorships by legitimizing their misguided policies and praising their development models as suited to individual national conditions. Beijing holds out China’s unique development model—significant economic growth overseen by a disciplined, one-party totalitarian state with full authority, if not control, over all aspects of economic activity—as an example for others to emulate.
Moreover, China rewards its African friends with diplomatic attention and financial and military assistance, exacerbating existing forced dislocations of populations and abetting massive human rights abuses in troubled countries such as Sudan and Zimbabwe. As a consequence, Chinese support for political and economic repression in Africa counters the liberalizing influences of Africa’s traditional European and American partners. China’s vigorous campaign to develop close ties with individual African nations also reflects Beijing’s global quest to isolate Taiwan diplomatically (seven of the 26 countries that have full diplomatic relations with Taiwan are African).[1]"
Moreover, China rewards its African friends with diplomatic attention and financial and military assistance, exacerbating existing forced dislocations of populations and abetting massive human rights abuses in troubled countries such as Sudan and Zimbabwe. As a consequence, Chinese support for political and economic repression in Africa counters the liberalizing influences of Africa’s traditional European and American partners. China’s vigorous campaign to develop close ties with individual African nations also reflects Beijing’s global quest to isolate Taiwan diplomatically (seven of the 26 countries that have full diplomatic relations with Taiwan are African).[1]"
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what rampantly libelling western spin!
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what rampantly libelling western spin!
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