11-19-2019, 02:02 AM
(11-18-2019, 04:25 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 18-Nov-2019 China vs Japan and Korea
(11-17-2019, 10:36 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: > Koreans and Japanese seem to have the same characteristics, so it
> goes beyond race. Chinese culture is difficult to crack.
I'll pass over your idiotic equivalencing of Donald Trump and
Xi Jinping, which almost surpasses the typical level of stupidity
of such comparisons, and move onto your remarks equivalencing
Korea and Japan with China.
Donald Trump is the most despotic or dictatorial President that we have ever had -- by far. His dalliances with dictators say much about him as a person. This is not pragmatic search for allies against something worse. Trump has been degrading the separation of power, checks and balances, and rule of law essential to democracy.He has severely debased public discourse, and he has promoted a personality cult around himself. He is still taking baby steps toward full-blown totalitarianism, but the trend should be obvious. Trump is a sick joke in democratic countries, and he s a sick joke to Americans who appreciate the American political heritage.
... Japan and Korea also have cultures tough to crack -- in that sense, just the same as China.
Quote:You're confusing nationalism with China's CCP religious cult. Every
country experiences nationalism and xenophobia in a generational
Crisis era, but the nationalism ends when the crisis war ends and the
countries moves through the Recovery era into the Awakening era. So
such periods of nationalism last at most a few decades. And in fact,
Japan and South Korea are fully integrated into the Western
international community, as members in good standing of the United
Nations, WTO, and other international organizations.
But China is nothing of the sort. Their racist view of themselves
as the Master Race is not decades old. It's millennia old.
Does anyone other than the CCP pretend that China is a democracy? Almost all cultures are prone to tribalism, if not racism.
Quote:China treats international organizations like the UN and WTO
contemptuously, always making it clear that even though international
law applies fully to all the barbarian countries, international law
does not apply to the Master Race in China, and the only thing that
matters to China is Chinese law.
So China is not a model of a society to be imitated. Ho-hum. As Benjamin Franklin said, those who sacrifice their essential freedoms for some temporary safety get neither freedom not safety. Maybe in more recent decades people have heard the siren song of jobs and economic growth in exchange for political freedom... the work came with abysmal pay and the economic improvements happened for only a few who needed no help. --
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
