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[quote=CHYNAGYRL,37266]Also, there is a very big difference between Chinese who never left China, and those who have foreign education and life experience.   Ironically, I find that sometimes Caucasians in China are much more positive about it than Chinese nationals who have emigrated abroad.  I'm very interested in Chinese culture and language because it's my heritage, but my parents are always there to remind me that it is not the best culture in the world.

My dad (a native of Shandong) says to me that even though Chinese people started first (one of the oldest continuous civilizations), they still ended up behind other Western countries.   If you look at European history, you'll see that they were more enlightened than Chinese in some ways:  building the first women's university in Poland, the first public hospital in France.  There were also laws limiting the King to have only one wife (in 17th century England), while Chinese emperors could have thousands of concubines until more recent times.  It's selfish.  I just don't that practice is enlightened or compassionate. Chinese people, just like Indians used to put widows into widow camps.  We know now, that how a society treats women also shows how they treat those they do not have to treat well, like minorities, marginal groups, poor people.  Basically, China was a tiger -- they admired strength, but if you were weaker, the tiger would eat you.  Much as I like Chinese culture, but the more I learn about it, I can certainly see that a "profound" culture is not always a profoundly good one.  There are certainly many, many good things about China and it's a beautiful country, but certainly, the culture has flaws just like any other human society.[/quote]

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