Thursday, May 24, 2012

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  1. Exco says:

    First, somebody report that damn spam, we really don’t need business propositions on a community website.

    On the contrary, the fact China is viewed as a “cheap labour” factory and the unjustified reason as the nation that’s taking all the jobs is creating waves upon waves of racism towards China, it doesn’t help with assimilation at all! As a matter of fact, since the growing media interest and often biased reports, most people who think they know China actually have a very shrewd idea about the country, as well as its people.

    On the contrary, it’s cultural images that affect assimilation – for example most “westerners” (hate to use this word) see Japan as a modern, almost post-modern society, what with everything digital originating from that island, and an already international icon for anime and manga, which particularly attracts starry eyed teens. Those who’s mesmerised about Japanese pop culture all want tend to have a similar goal in life – go to Japan, learn Japanese, and become robotic ninjas.

    So with the popularity in Japanese culture comes a warm adoration to Japanese immigrants, see?

    China isn’t completely dimmed by the faulty lamp, what with Jackie Chan and Jet Lee leading the martial arts trend and creating a stereotypical image of a rural China back in the 1800s. Nowadays, of course, China’s more associated with bloated accusations of humans rights and cheap labour, which gave a lot of Chinese an annoying task of explaining the true China.

    Lastly, never talk of Japan and China like they’re the same, they’re DEFINITELY NOT. Culturally and historically, yes, but in modern situations, particularly after the Sino-Japanese Wars, the two tend not to prefer people get them mixed up.

    On a last note, I personally think there’s an unreasoned fear in some people’s minds about China, what with the nation hosting to 1/5th of the world population and becoming a world superpower in just half a century. The fear in communism is carried to the nation as a whole, which is unjustified, of course, as China is clearly a capitalist nation with socialist notions. Heh, people are seeing a distorted image of China through some weird storm that is the media frenzy.

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