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[quote=LEONARDO,255344]Dodger, Yvonne,

I have read "The Merchant of Venice", but I have read only several poems written by Kipling. It's a pity.
As I have read so many posts here in this forum, I realize that Kipling didn't overstate the differences between the East and the West.Especially, Kipling lived in that era when communication was quite backward.

Today, depite of the increasing communication and exchaging activities, there are still some huge differences between the Easterners and the Westerners both in ways of thinking and behavior. Actually, the differences not only exist between the East and the West but also exist among different individuals. On some issues , we extremely disagree with each other. Anyway, it is much enjoyable and the differences render us the opportunity to learn from each other.  Just take Jimmyb's thread " why marry a Chinese girl" as an example, in the midst of discussion, both members and guests' opinions are quite varied, contrastive and conflicting.  Anyhow, it is a learning experience. Through open discussion and debating, all people involved in the thread have learnt a lot and we all benifit from the cultural and individual differences.

To add another line to my poem, if there had been no differences between the East and the West, there wouldn't have been the hot debate, and I wouldn't have learnt a lot from the posts on this forum. 
If there had been no differences between East and West, there wouldn't have been Jimmyb's hot thread( Joking, hehe).[/quote]

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