@Elisa.
This might help to answer your original question:
"Mainland industries bribing their way to quality-control certification"
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@Haali:
There are all different kinds of smiles in every country.
It's part of some of the working papers and studies I mentioned before.
@ifoundthetuna:
I couldnt agree more.
Cultures are developing all the time. People reevaluate and rethink values, habits and customs. Even if there is influence from outside, the people themselves still decicde what they want to give up and what they want to preserve.
India is a good example. They were a british colony for around 150 years. The british banned the cast system. After independence the cast system was also banned. But even nowadays the system is still present.
Language also reflects culture and concept of thinking. According to that only, Chinese are rascist and sexist.
Just imagine the following scene in your own home country.
Shouting "black people, black people" while touching the skin of the person to see if it's real.
"foreigner foreigner!" when seeing a Chinese.
"Beautiful girl! Such a yellow skin! Your skin is so yellow" while touching (without permission) the persons hair and skin.
You are in a club a man comes up to you "You and me sex tonight?! How much does it cost"
"What do you mean, you are not that kind of person?! I thought all Chinese are open (minded)!" (their 'knowledge' is based on porn movies and foreign girls working in KTV and in clubs.
In my home country in these cases you would call the police or security. In China, other foreigners (!) think it's ok and try to find excuses for this behaviour...
@mmteacher
Question:
Is foot binding valid?
Is 重男轻女 valid?
And about rape. In a lot of countries, rape inside a marriage is not considered as rape.
@mmteacher: Sorry, but not all cultural habits are worth preserving.
Read the above mentioned books and we can talk about whether those habits had any legitimation to be preserved.
One good thing about Mao, he finally banned the foot binding
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havent been there in months, because I wasnt too impressed. but some friends and I thought we should give it a try again.
This was definitely the last time we went there... very unfriendly staff who dont pay any attention and the owner asking you whether you cant squeeze in the last slice of pizza when she cleared the table...
About the pizza, very oily and low quality products used for making it
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@HFCAMPO: I dont take drugs or smoke and never did. Back home I worked for an institution that takes care of drug addicts.
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@faraday: Now I see your point about khat. These sort of political decisions happen quite a lot. You never know if they were and to what extend they were influenced by the lobby.
Comming back to the point of discussion. I just believe, that no one has the right to decide who should live and who should be put to death. Especially supporting it by saying everyone should serve a purpose. That's faschist logic. I personnally dont think it's appropriate to say things like that neither in a forum nor in real life whether it's a joke or meant serious.
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@faraday: Khat is not harmless. There are a couple of studies from various organizations and from different countries that prove the opposite of what you just said.
And for HFCAMPO: Coming from a country without death penalty and where death penalty is also considered murder, your attitude makes me sick. But hey, only developing countries like Europe, Russia, Ruanda, Ukraine and so on banned the death penalty.
Well at least advanced countries like the States, Yemen, China and North Korea still keep it. And because Europe is not exporting lethal injections to the States anymore, you are even considering using the electric chair again and think it's ok to use some lethal injections without prior testing? As a convict has no right to get a painless death. C'mon even every vet from the countryside can put a dog to sleep...
And how do you define purpose? What about the obese, the sick, the disabled, the old, the homeless? The street children in East Europe and Russia sniffing glue and other things to life on the streets. People esp. women trapped in human trafficking are forced to take drugs to stop them from running away. Ampethamines and crystal meth were given to American, British, German and Japanese soldiers so that they can fight much longer and care less about the risks.
I suggest for next time, just think before you write something. It gets into this mmteacher kind of attitude.
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@HFCAMPO:
As I said before. You have to be very careful when you use sentence like "Get rid of the demand - just execute all drug users since they serve no purpose in any society."
This statement is inhuman! In my country the freedom of speech ends where human dignity is violated! Millions of people were killed because people said they dont serve any purpose. Shame on you, seriously!
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@HFCAMPO: Alcohol and cigarettes are also drugs.
'they serve no purpose in any society' you have to be very careful when you say somehting like that. It's very similar to what some people said between 1933 and 1945 in Germany about certain groups in society!