Here, we step aside for a brief interlude and continue down the path exploring contemporaneous Chinese pop music and the culture promoting it.
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For starters. Music, I believe, is an emotional representation of the culture form whence it is derived from.
Music is a way to evoke emotion.
Take a second to look at the next video. What is going on here? What is the “back story”? Do you think that this is normal and typical, or is this some kind of staged event for a camera to post on the internet?
Do you think that she is “privileged” in such as way that negro students get a 1700 SAT point bonus at Harvard and Yale for “diversity”. What do you think that this chick would have to say about that?
Music is a medium that we can use to transmit our life; our feeling and our emotions to others.
America is what it is today simply because hard work is no longer considered valuable. The idea that you can get into college through bribes is out of a third world nation, it doesn’t belong in America. How did this all come about? What was the impetus for this terrible distortion of reality?
Since China is a traditional and a very conservative nation, it should be no surprise that history is not only honored, but appreciated. This is evident in the many history themed movies and soap operas that are quite prevalent in China today.
Chinese people are very comfortable with their history.
In America today, very few people know about Paul Bunyan. Few understand that Johnny Appleseed actually did exist. Today, American history is not taught in any way other than by disparagement. People in public schools are taught to hate the American history.
Not so in China.
China has really moved forward from the ashes of what Communism did. They have moved forward, and have worked very, very, very hard to be what they are today. Everyone has played a role in the enormous growth of China, and the music reflects this…
The Chinese people strive ever upwards, often suffering in silence. Their music reflects this.
A mere thirty years ago, many middle-class Chinese lived below the poverty level. They had plain and bare houses. Many, often had to share a communal outside commode and latrine / shower combination. Things have changed so radically.
Never before in history has a race of people, or a nation been so pulled up out of poverty.
The ignorant might want to credit Mr. Mao, but the true architect of the modern China is former American President Ronald Reagan. It was his policies, as implemented by traditionalist and arch-conservative Mr. Deng, that China was able to move out to the mess of thousands of years of wars and strife. Followed by the horrendous mistakes of the Communist government in the 1960’s and early 1970’s.
The Chinese people have suffered, and they do appreciate where they are today.
As such, they appreciate music, both local and international music and apply them to the life. You can see this in many ways. They enjoy music from Russia as well as America and often enjoy the American music in ways that us out West cannot understand.
The Chinese love many of the same things that Americans do.
Check out this European and Chinese boxing match. It kind of looks like something you might find in Chicago, Pittsburgh or New York.
China is a conservative, and not a progressive liberal nation. They do not tear down historical monuments for a new progressive utopia. Instead they honor the past, and create monuments to the great men and ladies of their past. They honor their history.
The Chinese honor their history.
The Chinese know their history, and they do appreciate it. They know about the struggles, the tricks, the lies, and the various abuses that have been heaped upon them…century after century. They will not forget their history.
They will learn from it.
The China that exists today is because the Chinese have learned from their history. This is a nation run as a meritocracy. They are a single-party government; the traditional-conservative Chinese party.
They have vowed never to forget, and when some progressive activist comes along, they immediately take actions to suppress them and remove them from society… that is, of course until they come to their senses. Then, and only then, can they be permitted back into society.
The Chinese people don’t insult their culture. They are proud of it. This differs quite substantially from what you see in America today. For instance, like the millionaires and the actors that dominate American culture today.
In fact, if I may be so bold, it is precisely the WAY that the (so called) conservatives, and traditionalists handled the matter of SJW public protests that indicates just how weak the conservative movement (hah! What a laugh.) is in the United States today.
You will notice that these fellas all still got paid. They were not penalized. They got away with it, and made millions in the process by all the media fawning news coverage that was thrown at them.
Today, the traditions and even the very founding of America is made fun of and a mockery of.
This continues a pace. Even in Congress, by our so-called representatives. They all despise you and I. They laugh at us. They hate us. Unless action is taken now… what do you think it will be like for folk like us when these people have majority rule?
Of course, this would NEVER happen in China.
China has zero tolerance for Social Justice Warriors, change, and especially change to their traditional conservative way of life. The Chinese do no mess around.
China is a serious nation, run by experts through merit.
Of course, it is reported differently in the United States press.
It is reported as the terrible Chinese rounding up those poor-helpless Muslims and putting them into these massive re-education camps. It is reported that the Chinese is attacking those poor feminist and gay activists and arresting them unjustly. It is reported as the evil Chinese just hate other “down trodden” folk and their (well-meaning, peaceful) alternative lifestyles.
The Chinese are the only people who will defend their traditional way of life.
They will NOT make the same mistakes that the American conservatives, and traditionalist have; to “turn the other cheek” and to “bend to the will of the minority. They will not have a Chinese version of George Bush, or Mitt Romney in position of power.
We conservatives have let this ideological cancer metastasize for far too long for its excision to be simple or painless. For too long, we have been patient with outrages we should have fought to reverse. We have let our opponents secede incrementally from us for decades. We have been tolerant and patient. In our tolerance and patience, we have given up our civil society, our political representation, and our freedoms one by one.
Our maladies won't be fixed by delicate adjustments now — half-heartedly performed by yet another generation of narcissistic government planners and invisible elitist bureaucrats.
Intellectuals like George Will and think-tanks like the Heritage Foundation have done us little good. Our condition demands a radical, unflinching surgery if we, as a nation, are to survive. Either the cancer wins, and kills us all, or we defeat it — and we accept the scars. Let us not pretend they would not be hideous scars. And let us not pretend it would not be a deeply barbarous and bitter surgery.
-American Thinker
In the Chinese mind, they have ALWAYS been under assault. This period of time… right now… where they are emerging towards world-class greatness is destined to be a short interlude unless they seize the opportunity.
Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed and absorbed by whatever culture manifests in the West. They simply will not be able to tolerate that. Their history, their life, their traditions, and yes, their conservatism MUST survive.
They are willing to defend that tradition, and they do not mess around about it at all. Of all the nations in the world, China has declared war against progressive liberal social justice warriors and their ilk…
The will not allow them to chip away at the Chinese fabric of society. They will not allow it.
Let’s move on to the next part of this post…
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