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Mar 3, 2006 03:58
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  • MAY001
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Ok, forget it. Let's come back Dragon.
Chinese dragon are always powerful, with the mysterious ability of controling water. People believe Dragon Kings live in East, South, West and North Sea. And Western Dragons are always living in caves and arresting a beautiful princess. Handsome and brave knight will always fight with the evil dragon and rescue the poor princess. Then at last, they live happily together after killing the poor dragon...

Got them from many fairy tales. It seemed that dragons are always considered evil in western culture. Is it true?
Mar 3, 2006 09:32
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MAY: The dragon stories in the West are similar to the Chinese versions. The dragon is not considered evil at all.
Mar 5, 2006 20:17
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o, SABERXLCR, really?
So fairy tales are wrong?
Mar 6, 2006 15:50
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MAY, I should say that the fairy tales in the West are similar to the ones from China.

I do not think the dragon is as 'evil' of a symbol here.

Actually, I kinda like dragons and it is a shame they chased by knights all the time! ;-]
Mar 6, 2006 18:58
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Usually,dragon is an evil animal in western country,I heard it from a spanish.

Mar 6, 2006 19:06
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Puff The Magic Dragon is a song by Peter, Paul & Mary. It is a song about puffing drugs like cocaine, heroin and marijuana. It has nothing to do with the mystical dragon.
Mar 6, 2006 19:12
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I'm puzzled... Are there two different opinions on Dragons in western culture?
Mar 6, 2006 19:34
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Drugs are known as Dragon by drug addicts. It is just a secret word. "Chasing the dragon" is smoking heroin.
Mar 7, 2006 19:28
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To SCARECROW,
I can't believe your words!! Are you just kiding?
Mar 7, 2006 22:15
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To May001 :

This is the history of CHASING THE DRAGON or heroin smoking. You can read more in this website :

http://www.biopsychiatry.com/heroin.htm


The history of heroin smoking and the subsequent development and spread of 'chasing the dragon' are examined. The first heroin smoking originated in Shanghai in the 1920s and involved use of porcelain bowls and bamboo tubes, thereafter spreading across much of Eastern Asia and to the United States over the next decade. 'Chasing the dragon' was a later refinement of this form of heroin smoking, originating in or near Hong Kong in the 1950s, and refers to the ingestion of heroin by inhaling the vapours which result when the drug is heated-typically on tin-foil above a flame. Subsequent spread of 'chasing the dragon' included spread to other parts of South East Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, to some parts of Europe during the late 1970s and early 1980s, and to much of the Indian sub-continent during the 1980s. At the time of writing, 'chasing the dragon' has now been reliably reported from many parts of the world but not from others with an established heroin problem-such as the United States and Australia. The significance of this new form of heroin use is examined, including consideration of the role of the different effect with this new form of use, the different types of heroin, and changing public attitudes to injecting.
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