张爱玲凄美的“白玫瑰、红玫瑰”的故事

复杂而又简单的道理

竟然和身在异国的学子

心灵相通

——对于祖国的热爱从来没有这么挚热过

身在国外，才知道“爱国”两字的分量

当年在党旗下的庄严宣誓

相较而言

都远远不如

 

相比较中文的精彩的直播

德国人对于奥运的直播简直可以用“枯燥”两字来形容

绝大部分想看开幕式的德国人（当然，绝大部分德国人是绝对不会看开幕式的）

都完全不可能被感动

因为无知，更因为仇视

 

联系到亲见的

最近德国电视台永无休止的对于中国的负面报道

本来想想，写篇文章骂骂德国人就算了

今早才发现

原来还有更绝的——美国人根本就没有Live 直播奥运！

（以下文字来自worldofming）

It is a shame the US was the only country who didn't get to watch it live.  It is kind of ironic the richest country in the world can't afford to play the ceremony twice like many other countries with timezone differences did.  And for a country that talks about freedom of speech, they sure tried very hard to remove clips from Youtube.  Let's just say UK is just too small a potato to come up with a show anywhere near this level four years from now.

 

From New York Times Reader’s Digest:

This was really a splendid opening ceremony imparted with ancient Chinese wisdom and a panorama of the continual, glorious history of China. It opened an invaluable gateway for the west to realize just how rapid China is developing, both economically and culturally.

Even if the west keeps bashing and accusing China on numerous issues while U.S, the number one country, has been getting away with atrocious act in Iraq and Afghanistan, and many other places in the world, China still maintained its grace and goodwill for global peace and harmony in this visual spectacle they endeavored to present.

While many condemned China on its handling on Tibetan protest, they failed to realize Dalai Lama’s shady past as the leader of a horrible theocracy, where a few Buddhist monks constituting the aristocratic class oppressed and enslaved the m***** that made up 99% the population in Tibet. Moreover, the west proposed that Tibet should be an autonomous region (even independent) only for Tibetans to preserve their culture and religion. Don’t you feel this amounts to denying the human rights of other Chinese ethnic groups?

As for environmental issues, I guess many choose to turn a blind eye on the fact that the west has been polluting this world for more than 300 years starting from industrial revolution, and that China has been investing heavily in alternative, renewable energy sources. Check online and you’ll find China is leading in terms of energy research, renewable energy usage and wind power exploitation.

All these bashing and accusation are merely a reflection of how horrified the west is in the face of a rising power that is not of the same race, same ideology and same cultural background with themselves. Typical xenophobia.

 

我想说，最后那个“xenophobia"还是一个太轻的词

帝国主义的丑恶嘴脸是永远不会变的

利益，是永久的中心

 

 

不过另外一方面

中国向来是一个“生于忧患，死于安乐”的国度

只是希望国内的同胞们少点整自己人的”安乐“，多点对外警惕的“忧患”