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A Word About China
Let’s give China a break. Just this once. After all, it’s for the Olympics. The whole world has decided to play together just every four years. Do you want to blow this recess?
I have a good reason, even beyond Olympic brotherhood, to cut China some slack. Let’s remember, the people living in China go back hundreds of generations and have survived many kinds of governments.
Politicians and pop culture militants are fixated on the current Communist regime and China’s refusal to let Taiwan and Tibet secede from the union. They’re pissed off about the Olympics being held in “Communist China” period.
China and all the Chinese people were pretty much doing their own thing until the middle of the 19th century. That’s when the English made a fortune selling opium to the Chinese people. When the people realized what it was doing to them and said “Stop!” – then the English launched the Opium War and China was up for grabs.
In rushed the Dutch, the Germans, the French, the Russians, and yes, even the Americans.
The English decided to take the city of Hong Kong for themselves. The Americans pressured everyone else into laying off of the actual political takeover of their pieces of the giant China pie, but by then the Japanese had been brought up to speed technologically by – the Americans! – and wanted some China and Korea of their own.
While all this was happening, the Chinese were a feudal people with no army to resist the growing oppression. Pockets of bold resistance appeared, but could only do so much.
In other words, the people of China have suffered great oppression and humiliation at the hands of the outside world for two hundred years.
And while the similarities aren’t exact, there was another country that didn’t take kindly to it’s states seceding from the union – and fought a bloody Civil War for half a decade to prevent it.
Let’s give the Chinese people the respect they should have always been afforded. Time out.
Carry the torch!
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