From: cshuy@zeus.calpoly.edu (Christina Cheng Ann Shuy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asian.american
Subject: Re: Year of the Dragon (Re: Asian American Media Image)
Keywords: good movie, 2 thumbs up!
Date: 24 Jul 92 16:08:43 GMT
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Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

In article <1992Jul23.182042.8057@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>In article <1992Jul23.025730.1522@dazixca.ingr.com> cristina@dazixca.ingr.com
>(Cristina Ungstad Yu) writes:
>>...
>>my question, what does all this cu stuff mean, as in chinese-cu?
>>
>>-cristina yu
>
>Chinese-cu = Chinese in the CUltural sense
>Chinese-ge = Chinese in the GEnetic sense; i.e. ethnically Chinese
>Chinese-ci = Chinese in the sense of CItizenship; i.e. citizen of China
>
>Note that a French-ge can be Chinese-cu but not Chinese-ge[1].
>
>Also, Chinese-cu idiots tend to think that Chinese-cu = Chinese-ge;
>hence, according to them, a French-ge person can never really be
>Chinese-cu.  Chinese-cu idiots believe that genes (i.e. ethnicity)
>determine culture.

Sterotyping AGAIN!  Dwight, you are being a _very_ bad boy!

>It's a twisted, disgusting, racist view that many Chinese-cu idiots
>believe.  It's a view shared by rednecks, Klansmen, and Nazis.
>
>However, Taiwanese-cu are less inclined to this idiotic view.  I had a pleasant
>chat with a Taiwanese-cu lady, and she believes (like me) that a
>person is free to choose whatever culture she/he wishes.  Furthermore,
>people (like Chinese-cu idiots) who tell others the culture with
>which they "should" identify are just morons.
I suppose you are one of those morons?  You're telling people to identify
with Western culture.  very illogical.  Then again, racism seldom is 
logical.

>By the way, she tells me that she intends to learn the Japanese language
>in the future.  She also tells me that one of her relatives (uncle, I think)
>was locked in prison by the KMT Chinese-cu gov't on Taiwan; the "crime"
>was daring to voice his opinion.
>
>Ahhh.  The "wonders" of Chinese-cu thought...

Nope.  Ahh, the wonders of a totalitarian government.  Saddam Hussein's
probably got something similar going on in Iraq, as have the Iranians
and, formerly, the Soviet Union before Gorbachev.  Chinese-cu thought
has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with this.  there are probably
governments all around the world locking people up for their opinions-
and many of them in the West, too!  Look at Bulgaria, Romania and the 
other places under western-cu thought.  They've been locking people up for
years.  Heck, look at Yugoslavia right now!  

>[1] I agree with people who say that -ge is pointless because all
>humans are derived from a common origin in Africa.  That, however,
>is not the way in which the Chinese-cu idiots view the matter.  They
>view Chinese-ge people as a distinct _racial_ group--distinct even
>from the Koreans and the Japanese.

Dwight, please do not stereotype the entire race of people on the actions
of just a few!  You are so ignorant that I feel sorry for you.  I can't get
angry because that's what you want anyway. *sigh!*

>Given that moronic reasoning, we can use my notation to rip apart
>their other cherished but racist notion that genes determine 
>ethnicity.
And the only person who really believes that is you!  I certanly don't.
My parents brought me up allowing me to do whatever I wanted.  My cousins
are the same way, you RACIST!
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