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Anonymous
>>256778 Of course it's possible, and I can tell you most likely don't do things that way, taking a hint by the tone and attitude of your posts.
You don't claim that you "respect" the Chinese people, as a colleague respects another. You claim that you "love" the Chinese, and don't want to see them hurt, as if you were their mother. Your problem is not that other Westerners are holding your progress back somehow, or that the Chinese people are blind to what their government does. Your problem is that you don't make an effort to understand the Chinese people.
When a Chinese person defends their government, what seems like the first thing that pops into your mind is, "Brainwashed, poor bastard. He's just spouting propaganda!"
Which is what a mother says about her son when she finds him saying bad words. "Oh, no, he must've heard that on the TV!"
When a person defends their government, they're usually fully aware that that government has its defects, but they're still proud of that government, because, in some small way, it's *theirs*. And that's one thing the Chinese people are still very proud of. The Chinese are the masters of the Chinese, and no one else ever will be, and they are very committed to making sure no one will. It's a very nice thought to try and walk up to a Chinese person and somehow "enlighten" them about all the things that's wrong in the place they live, but imagine trying to do that to your typical New Yorker, walking up to them and telling them how much their city sucks. Their civic pride is just too high to accept talking-down upon that institution, especially from an outsider, even though they're well aware that problems, and probably even the problems you mention, exist.
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