我的原话："I have lived in the US for almost 10 years. I have seen things in China that are not properly reported here by the media in the US, and that might have caused some of the misunderstanding."
"I've never believed in Communism myself, and I think the Chinese Communist Party did a lot of terrible things. But today, whether or not China is still a Communist country is highly debatable. Mostly importantly, I have seen with my own eyes that the average Chinese are living a much better life than they did 10 years ago."
"As managers, we all know how hard it is to manage a team of 10. Just imagine how hard it would be to run a country of 1.3 billion people. It's only inevitable to make a lot of mistakes, sometimes big mistakes."
"I guess what I'm trying to say is, don't listen to everything I said, and don't listen to everything Dr.XX said. (Class laughing) When you go to China next year, see it for yourselves, talk to people, learn about the country, keep an open mind, and understand that just because people do things differently doesn't mean they are dumb or evil."
if you check history, most of the horrible crimes and human caused disasters were due to two reasons: blind patriotism and blind religion. and most of the time, most people wouldn't know they were wrong until too late.
jwayne_1 发表评论于
回复littlebirds的评论: i think you over estimated the political intelligence of average people, american and chinese.
i don't agree. it was because the government misled people. i don't know about you, but i think the current u.s. government behaves more and more like chinese communist government in many aspects.
some western governments use 民主 as excuse to do many things (including iraq), there is no doubt about it and that's why many chinese are angry. however, have you thought about tibetan people's feelings?
if a chinese argues, we are stronger and we liberated them from slavery, so they should thank us, then the same argument can be used by the american for invading iraq, for supporting tibetan separaists.
鼎祥 发表评论于
说得好
smeagolrocks 发表评论于
I think China deserves some criticizem but your professor is a jerk. You can complaint to your school authority about this professor. Let them know that this is a economy not a political science class. And let them know that this professor is making you feeling uncomfortable by bringing up things that are irrelelavant to the class.
lsj1268 发表评论于
I had similar experince. In a EMBA program, economy class, good prof. Being objective and analytical is very importent in defending China. Not lack of enthusiasm, lack of composer due to the language skill, concerns for the consequence. Yet, we got to do something now rather then later.
Does the communist party allow a foreigner to meet anyone in Tibet freely? The Chinese goverment is so paranoid about unchecked information exchange. If the goverment has nothing to hide, why it does not allow foreign journalists (even journalist from Hong Kong) to report from Tibet? People in Tibet want religious freedom, not just money.
denzil39 发表评论于
Good job! Well done. I wish I could be as wise and brave as you when this moment comes.
well, it is sad that the individual chinese has to defend their own country, where is the chinese government, what have they done? counting their money in some banks in us?
回复缘言的评论: there are more than 50% of american disagree with the us government on iraqi war. you want to call them mei3 jian1?
jwayne_1 发表评论于
of course there are lots of prejudice and misunderstanding. but the communist government is not defendable. for your comments, you may gain some applause in usa but you will get into trouble if you are in china for saying "i never believed in communist and they did lots of terrible things".
so, try not to confuse china / chinese with the current chinese government.
好!
Suggest change "guess what I'm trying to say is," ==>"what I'm trying to say here is,". It is more assertive.
adriana 发表评论于
回复gzlady的评论:
I like the speech very much. It's very objective.
袁小二 发表评论于
同意屠夫的话
“英文子弹”！
拿起笔杆做刀枪！：）
gzlady 发表评论于
Great speech! I am very proud of you.
外乡人 发表评论于
agree with adobecreek, in fact, you are safe after this "battle". No one whants trouble, you have shown to everyone that your prof and you had different oppion. therefore any low mark may result a dispuse.
Cannot imagine an economics professor can be this openly disrespectful and judgmental of another country's internal affairs without doing fair amount of research. It takes huge arrogance to point fingers like this, especially with your presence!
Remember to give him an awful awful teaching evaluation!
疯一样的男子 发表评论于
楼主加油！！
疯一样的男子 发表评论于
回复adobecreek的评论:
我非常同意你的看法
梦驰 发表评论于
Thank you for speaking out for Chinese.
adobecreek 发表评论于
That's the difference between Chinese system and American's. If you are in Chinese university and have a different opinion, for example: you think Japan should stay in Manchua and you speak out, you will not only fail the course, you'll be in big trouble too.
Becomes you are in America, not only you won't be in trouble you get applause for speaking out your opinioin.
我的原话："I have lived in the US for almost 10 years. I have seen things in China that are not properly reported here by the media in the US, and that might have caused some of the misunderstanding."
"I've never believed in Communism myself, and I think the Chinese Communist Party did a lot of terrible things. But today, whether or not China is still a Communist country is highly debatable. Mostly importantly, I have seen with my own eyes that the average Chinese are living a much better life than they did 10 years ago."
"As managers, we all know how hard it is to manage a team of 10. Just imagine how hard it would be to run a country of 1.3 billion people. It's only inevitable to make a lot of mistakes, sometimes big mistakes."
"I guess what I'm trying to say is, don't listen to everything I said, and don't listen to everything Dr.XX said. (Class laughing) When you go to China next year, see it for yourselves, talk to people, learn about the country, keep an open mind, and understand that just because people do things differently doesn't mean they are dumb or evil."
