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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tora Ziyal: [QB] Has anyone ever thought that maybe China is still bitter about the bombing of their embassy thing? (nevermind that it was under Clinton, the US is the US) I've been reading some Taiwan-based Chinese newspapers. One from five days ago quotes Tang Jia Xuan (I don't know who the hell that is) saying "This incident is entirely the Americans' fault. Reasonably, they should take complete responsibility and make an apology." He also says "I need to point out, the Chinese continues to take a cool-headed, disciplined, and responsible attitude to deal with this affair." The article says the 24 Americans will be in touch with the American Embassy, and finally this other guy Yang Jie Hu says "I believe, the most important thing is for the US government to face the facts. The US should take all responsibility, and they should apologize to the Chinese." In this other Chinese article I found online, the American representative says pretty much what 1st described of the incident. The Chinese rep replies: "the American plane swerved and the Chinese plane was unable to dodge it. We trust our pilot to have done the right thing." The American rep: "Our people were flying in a straight line. It was your fault." Chinese rep: "No, they swerved. It's your fault." American rep: "They did not." Chinese rep: "Did too." American rep: "Did not." Chinese rep: "Did too." Well, it sounded like that anyway. A third article I read did some fun psychoanalyses (and gross generalizations) of American attitudes. Here it is. "Americans often don't understand that it is difficult for foreigners to understand Americans. The U.S. isn't like Europe, with nations each having a single culture, but it has many histories and cultures combined in a great union. Although the contrasts between American cultures have dwindled somewhat in the last few decades, there are still long-term differences. This phenomenon has many interesting effects, one of them is the American view of conflict. "Different cultures in America have different attitudes toward conflict. Take the South for example. Southerners take their personal honor extremely seriously. If insulted past a certain limit, they are compelled to respond; if they don't, it's seen as a sign of weakness (sounds familiar), but the response only provokes more retaliation. On the other hand, in New England, the center of their culture is ethics. If everyone acts reasonably, their first reaction to any type of invasion should be peaceful resolution, seeking to understand the other party and finding a common ground. But if the other party lacks ethics (or morals?), they are quick to conflict, having an all-out battle, until the other side surrenders." There's another part to this that has to do with the plane collision. I'll translate that when I get home. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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