When I was 16 years old, I downloaded a video about Tiananmen Square protests for the first time. It's a music video accompanying a song called Blood On The Square. It's on a Taiwan website (I guess). That webpage features some pictures and a short article about that incident.
I can't briefly tell you my feeling and exact thought now.
Our government is inexcusable. That's for sure.
Almost every young people in my age group somehow know what happened in 1989. We will never forget about that incident.
And, don't worry. There is still hope for my country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAOXPgfZick
I did a research and found more proof such as airfare prices. And browsed some real Chinese soccer fans' blogs.
I can say the "hired fans" thing is not true.
But I have to go to bed now. I will try to write something tomorrow.
I'm glad people know about Tiananmen, it was something incredibly horrible. More than 3K people died, an enormous amount for a protest.
This also reminds me of the Domhnach na Fola, or "Bloody Sunday" in Northern Ireland. Totally unjustified shootings against protesters, with 13 people dead. Cameron recently "apologised", and it's certain that it's a lot more than what most governments do, but it still won't bring back the dead.
Back to China, it's certainly a very weird country. It's still communist in many senses, e.g. the way it controls the media (no access to YouTube) and oppresses the people, but more Western in that there're now, say, Dolce and Gabanna stores there. I'm sure the Chinese didn't expect that 15 or 20 years ago
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China's economic growth is very interesting, they'll move Japan from being the 2nd largest economy to the 3rd one (some extreme right-wing Chinese will be very happy with this, I'm sure). Japan is going kaputt anyhow, they've a humongous amount of internal debt. The Japanese government is also incredibly unstable, just check how many PMs they've had in the last 50 years… almost one per year hahaha. Back to China, the problem is that much of it's growth is due to, to a certain point, slavery. Human life is so undervalued there that US companies (and others) move there because they basically have to pay nothing compared to what they'd pay to a person in the US, or many other countries. Chinese workers are exploited beyond reason, and some simply can't handle it and just kill themselves. Like the guys who were doing the iPads or something.
Since I've never had the opportunity to discuss a lot of things with Chinese actually living in China, I respectfully ask for your opinion on the following matters:
1) China's over-population.
2) China now being the most polluting country in the world.
3) China destroying lovely panda's habitats.
4) Taiwan. Do you consider it part of China, or just let them be (independent)? What do people you know think about this?
5) North Korea - Chinese relations. Should China support a dictatorship? What do people you know think about this?
6) Japanese - Chinese relations. Do you hate Japanese people? How do you feel when talking to one if you've ever had done that? How do you feel about the Sino-Japanese wars? And, say, Manchuria?
7) If I may know, how old are you?
You don't have to answer right now, obviously, but I'm very eager to know what's your views (and what you think are other people's views) on those topics/issues.
PS: And I still think they were Chinese actors hehehe
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a survey of 1000 people within the US is not very valid, is it?
