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Wasn't it also a bit "messy" when some of these people went through the Cultural Revolution?
martha said:Wasn't it also a bit "messy" when some of these people went through the Cultural Revolution?
martha said:You really should work for the government PR department when you go back home.
martha said:After you.
butter7 said:
Chinese history is the compulsory subject since Jr high.
melon said:
And, yes, I do know where Tibet is on the map.
melon said:It's my personal view that each nation's take on history is tainted with historically inaccurate nationalism--both China and the U.S. included. It is often less about fabricating history, and more about what I'd call "sins of omission"; that is, glossing over certain parts of history, while fixating on others.
And, yes, I do know where Tibet is on the map.
The Olympic Torch Relay Campaign
2008/04/08 LHASA/BERLIN
(Own report) - Conference reports and the research of a Canadian journalist reveal that a German Foreign Ministry front organization is playing a decisive role in the preparations of the anti-Chinese Tibet campaign. According to this information, the campaign is being orchestrated from a Washington based headquarters. It had been assigned the task of organizing worldwide "protests" at a conference organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (affiliated with the German Free Democratic Party - FDP) in May 2007. The plans were developed with the collaboration of the US State Department and the self-proclaimed Tibetan Government in Exile and call for high profile actions along the route of the Olympic Torch Relay and are supposed to reach a climax in August during the games in Beijing. The campaign began already last summer and is now profiting from the current uprising in the west of the People's Republic of China that is receiving prominent coverage in the German media. The uprising was initiated with murderous pogrom-like attacks by Tibetan gangs on non-Tibetan members of the population, including the Muslim Chinese minority. Numerous deaths of non-Tibetans provoked a reaction of the Chinese security forces.
According to the research by a Canadian journalist, a conference organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNSt) gave the impetus to the current anti-Chinese Tibet campaign that violently forced the interruption of the Olympian Torch Relay in Paris last Monday.[1] The conference was the fifth "International Tibet Support Groups Conference," that was held from May 11 - 14, 2007 in Brussels. According to FNSt information this conference was supposed to do nothing other than the four preceding conferences [2] - "coordinate the work of the international Tibet groups and consolidate the links between them with the central Tibetan Government in Exile."[3] The German foundation, which is largely state financed, began the conference preparations in March 2005, and coordinated its plans with the Dalai Lama at his headquarters in the self-proclaimed Tibetan Government in Exile in Dharamsala, India. More than 300 participants from 56 countries, 36 Tibetan associations and 145 Tibet support groups were represented at the conference.
The abolition of slavery, westward expansion, imperial ambition and civil rights and liberties being expanded to minorities seem like significant changes in social system.butter7 said:
I know what you mean, and I agree with you in certain extent. However, if you use the America standard to see China, it's not going to get a correct result.
China is only a communist country for 50 years, compare with the nation's history, the CCP is just like a drop of water in an great ocean.
It's a Chinese tradition that the current government are not allowed to write it's own history, but only the previous government that was pulled down. e.g the official history book for the Qin dynasty was wrote by the history officer of Han dynasty; the official history book for Ming dynasty was wrote by the history officer of Qing dynasty; and the Republic of China government was reponsible for the Qing history. By letting your former enemy to write your history, the history itself could be recorded in a way without any personal favour. The CCP gov is not qualify to write any history book yet, because the Republic of China government is still exist in Taiwan.
If you use this standard for American history, that would be no history book that could qualify it, since the US hasn't changed it's social system ever since the first day, except for the American Indian part.
butter7 said:
If you use this standard for American history, that would be no history book that could qualify it, since the US hasn't changed it's social system ever since the first day, except for the American Indian part.
melon said:It's my personal view that each nation's take on history is tainted with historically inaccurate nationalism--both China and the U.S. included. It is often less about fabricating history, and more about what I'd call "sins of omission"; that is, glossing over certain parts of history, while fixating on others.
BonoManiac said:
Maybe Vincent Vega can elaborate, but it's my understanding that German students learn all about Nazi Germany etc.
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BonoManiac said:
Tell me butter7, what do you know about June 4,1989? Was is it even mentioned in school at all?
BonoVoxSupastar said:Your posts make a lot more sense now...
On Sunday, April 13, 2008, Bush National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley talked about Nepal on A B C.
BonoVoxSupastar said:No, I understood, and it put a lot of her other comments on America in context...
A_Wanderer said:The abolition of slavery, westward expansion, imperial ambition and civil rights and liberties being expanded to minorities seem like significant changes in social system.