From: mhmann@nyx.cs.du.edu (Me Mann)
Subject: Re: China/Chua, KhengHwa/Re: An open letter to Emperor Akihito of Japan
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>Chinese people born overseas tend to confuse the 3 connotations
>of word Chinese.  Let's define some terms, and I'll explain.
>
>Chinese-ge = Chinese in the genetic sense (i.e. ethnically Chinese)
>Chinese-cu = Chinese in the cultural sense
>Chinese-ci = Chinese in the sense of citizen of China
>
>Note that a Frenchman-ge can be Chinese-cu but not Chinese-ge.
>
>Chinese bigots (and there are many) assume that genetics = cultural.
>They believe that Chinese-ge = Chinese-cu; in other words, a person
>who is ethnically Chinese must also be culturally Chinese.  This
>is a view shared by rednecks, Klansmen, and Nazis.

Only the idiot who wrote the above could not grasps what the overseas
Chinese have written.  It is a fact that most if not all the overseas
Chinese embrace the Chinese culture close to their heart. They observe
almost all the cultural and traditional festivities of the Chinese
people. They even follow the lunar Calendar and believe in stuff like
Geomancy etc. Infact their reluctance to severe their cultural ties
has been seen by some as a problem in integration.  They are almost
all true Chinese-ge. Though I would not say all Chinese-ge=Chinese-cu
but certainly most are. At let me tell you that the overseas Chinese I
am talking about are close to 20% of all the overseas Chinese,
including those in Taiwan and Hong Kong.  Practically all of the
Taiwanese or Hong Konger are Chinese-ge and embrace Chinese culture.
What you see in the US is only a minute fraction of all the overseas
Chinese.


>The Chinese have never apologized for what they did, let alone
>even acknowledge it.

You never apologize to all the Chinese for all your 
racist views either!!

>Note that I am comparing what the Japanese did and what the Chinese
>did on roughly the _same_ time scale:  20th century.  It's unbelieveable
>but _true_.  The Chinese killed at least 100 million people in the
>20th century alone.

Have you ever heard of the gory stories of how the Japanese during
their occupation of South-East Asia treated the overseas Chinese
there?  They for one can recognize a Chinese no matter how far they
are from China.  They roundedup the overseas Chinese youths and send
them to far away places to build bridges. Many never return. They kill
the Chinese , chopped off their heads and put them on bamboo sticks
and place them in public places. They took infants and tossed them in
the air and bayoneted them to death. They feed the infants with water
until their bellies were so full and then put them under a piece of
planck and squeeze the water out of them.  Those are just some of the
atrocities that the Japanese committed towards another nation and
another race.

>
>No ethnic group even comes _close_ to this number.

No ethnic group even come close to this kind of atrocities.

But then it is no use reasoning with this racist idiot
Welcome again to my kill file!!!!


Me Han Mann
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