Here, we continue on our exploration of China from the comfort of our own personal computer, personal laptop, or personal media device. This is a multi-part post because too many videos will prevent the post from loading, and also, I tend to get sidetracked on various issues.
Also, please keep in mind that the purpose of this post is to illustrate that the rest of the world, outside of America, has moved on with their lives. That while they might not be as great as America is, they are doing just fine thank you.
And while America has been squandering it’s money, decimating it’s resources, and just being cavalier with it’s military, the rest of the world has done the opposite. They have husbanded their day to day fortunes, and you can see this in their day-to-day lives.
This is the fourth of a mighty mega-post.
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Bubble Hotels (Video 19)
China is about staying is a bubble hotel.
You would think that it would be so very difficult to have anyone to visit a hotel, or park in China. You know, with all the negative publicity about pollution… eating dogs… bird flu sickness, etc. But, China has parks and hotels. While the American media is all rife with anti-Chinese sentiment, the rest of the world (with the exception of the UK, for reasons related to progressive socialism) has a very positive view of China.
High Speed Trains (Video 20)
China is about high speed trains that go just about everywhere.
I’ve covered this in detail elsewhere, actually. If you want to read about what I have to say about this subject, you might want to visit here. (Don’t worry the link opens up into another tab so you won’t lose your place here.)
Anyways, here’s another great micro-video of a speeding Chinese HSR train.
First Day of School (Video 21)
I just cannot help myself. Here’s a screen-shot from one of my all time favorite movies. It starred Rodney Dangerfield, and it’s from 1988. Of course, it’s “Back to School”. I well remember when I first got this movie. I had just got my Beta-MAX player and this video was one of the first that I could watch on it. That and “One Crazy Summer”, and “Better off Dead”. All complete 1980’s classics.
I was in MAJestic training at NAS China Lake, and at the end of the day, I would ride my motorcycle back to the apartment (pick up some take out through KFC) and we would eat chicken and watch Rodney Dangerfield. BTW. Chicken and beer go together quite nicely. They really do.
Anyways…
Sorry about digressing so. I do love a great bite of chicken and beer. I love how it smells and how it tastes, and the icy cold beer washes it down just perfectly. Now, back to school…
China is about sending your child off to the first day of school on their own.
Everyone has children, and the parents want the best for them. They take care of them, care for them and try to teach them. This is a major parental role that is part of human nature. While there are extreme variances on the amount of parental supervision between the parenting types, the Chinese do take care of their children.
If you want to explore this subject a little further, you might want to check out these other posts. Don’t worry, by clicking on them, you will discover that they will open up in other links and tabs.
China – a land of traditions (video 22 A&B)
China is a land where traditions are honored, appreciated and emulated.
All traditional conservative nations honor their past. They promote the memories by erecting statues. They hold parades, and children perform skits and reenactments of past events. They learn lore about famous people and recite poems dedicated to them.
In progressive socially liberal nations, the opposite is true. They tear down statues. They rewrite history and disparage heroic individualistic action. Any holidays become bland and are provided generic names, and the celebrations towards them are ridiculed if not banned.
China is a traditional Chinese-conservative nation. America is a progressive-liberal nation.
Chinese factory (video 23)
The American and British tabloids often depict China as the home of “sweat shops” and forced manual labor with “child labor” and other such injustices. In all the years that I have lived in China, and at all the many hundreds of factories that I have visited, toured and worked with, I have never seen anything that even remotely resembles the mainstream media narrative.
Here we have a typical assembly line.
A propagandized narrative that demonizes another group of people, a nation, or a type of person is usually a prelude to eventual war. The only way to prevent war is by diffusing the mainstream media narrative by exposure. Otherwise, the narrative festers than you have such things as the Nazi’s putting Jews in concentration camps, the Rwandan genocide, and the attacks on White People in South Africa.
The NeoCons in the United States rely heavily on the mainstream media to drum up support for a condition of non-stop war.
Quick Commentary (video 23 and 24)
When you are not spending money blowing things up, but rather creating things instead, life takes on an entirely new meaning.
You can enjoy life.
You can have fun. You can dance, and you can be yourself. No matter how strange it may appear. Please, I implore you, don’t be manipulated by the oligarchy to sacrifice your home, your money, your lifestyle, and your very lives for some far off war in a place that (supposedly) has “national security” interests.
Life is far too short not to enjoy yourself.
Continued…
OK. At numerous videos for this part, let’s go and move on to the next part of this post which covers more videos and further commentary about China.
If you want to go to the start of this series of posts, then please click HERE.
Links about China
China and America Comparisons
The Chinese Business KTV Experience
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Learning About China
Contemporaneous Chinese Music
This is a series of posts that discuss contemporaneous popular music in China. It is a wide ranging and broad spectrum of travel, and at that, all that I am able to provide is the flimsiest of overviews. However, this series of posts should serve as a great starting place for investigation and enjoyment.
Parks in China
The parks in China are very unique. They are enormous and tend to be very mountainous. Here we take a look at this most interesting of subjects.
Really Strange China
Here are some posts that discuss a number of things about China that might seem odd, or strange to Westerners. Some of the things are everyday events, while others are just representative of the differences in culture.
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