From: "(Wei Zhang)" <zhangw@chert.CS.ORST.EDU>
Subject:      more concern on protection bill (II)
Reply-To: "(Wei Zhang)" <zhangw@chert.CS.ORST.EDU>
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 00:15:14 GMT
Comments: To: CHINA-NT@uga.cc.uga.edu

This is my second and last part of "more concern on protection bill".

As a Group-B individual, as a protection bill supporter, at this
last stage of the big campaign, I feel there is really something needs to
be reminded and concerned of.  Fortunately, right now, I found many people
did get it very well. It makes me feel not so necessary. However,
as long as the first part appears, this part must be here.

The main purposes of the postings are:

1. To remind our Chinese, whatever group you belong to, ALWAYS DON'T FORGET
YOU ARE CHINESE, DO YOUR BEST TO HELP SOMEBODY ELSE WHENEVER YOU CAN.

2. To say some words for Group-B, at least, they are not totally forgot at
this moment.

Hopefully, some words below will not make somebody so unhappy.

For a quite long time, I have found our Chinese in this land are not all pure.
In this chinese protection campaign, I saw there are some amounts of people,
who only care the bill, never allow any other different sound. Their whole
minds, I guess, are totally full of "Green". Whenever any concern on Group-B
appears, they just very quickly respond "red eyes", "ugly Chinese" etc., and
then firmly refuse this group. Their reasoning is so simple, "since you
are definitely not qualify, don't expect anything with the bill, otherwise
you are red eyes". They never feel the existence of the bill is very
importantly based on the support of Group-B. They never concern of
other people. I really wonder whenever this kind of people become
"Green", they will do something good for our Chinese. Let me call
these as "Green" people. If the protection bill is ONLY for these people,
do we need it? My answer is so simple, NO, DEFINITELY NOT!

When there is 10 million dlr that you can possibly get, do you want to try,
even though the chance are very small, e.g., .0001%? I guess most of you
would like to have a try. Why not? Every Chinese in this country is not
easy. For most Group-B people, I think, they paid a lot more to achieve
coming here than Group-A people. After they came, they found they are so
different with their earlier-coming nationals. Do you ever know how they
think?  For the bill, actually, they didn't make any real try for adding them.
Without a try, how can you say it is definitely impossible? What if at the
very beginning there is a lobby for it? what if ...? ...? Of course,
I admit this adding will make the work much more difficult.  But it is
really a big deal.  So, why Group-B give up any try, and keep silence? That
is, "to keep the bill safer", "to let their brothers and sisters in another
group have a bigger chance", rather than they believe so called "the bill
benefits Group-B"!!!

Since there do exist the conflict, those "Green" people become the
"hard-line" in the campaign. Big caps are always hold in their hand.
Most people who actively work on the bill, I think, are nice. They hope
not to hurt the other group. So, they try hard to say the "benefit", or
use the strategy like "put the Group-B issue in cool level". On many
extent, I do appeciated them and their strategies, because without these,
we could hardly see the current success. Since  working for the majority
of our Chinese, these people do need to be respected. I think now it is the
right time I can say these. I did not say it earlier because I am really
afraid of any possible negative effect could be caused. I don't want to
say it later (after the end of the campaign), because I guess at that time
it might not be an issue (how many people are still interested in?), and it
might not be quite meaningful.

For Group-B people, do we need to take any action now? Apparently, NOT(in
my view). When giving up ealier, I think, most of us never want to try again.

After my first part is posted, I recieved many responses. Sorry I can not
reply to you one by one. This is also my answer to you. Here, I'd like to
say my cordial thanks to those who gave me some very good points and who
showed very good understanding. Also, I want to say my apology to Mr.
Lou Ning for some misunderstanding. The reason why I used strong words was,
first, I really want to beat those "Green" people (they do exist in the net),
second, Mr. Ning said a little bit too much on "benefit" problem.  Further,
I have a few words to those "Green" people: DON'T FORGET YOU ARE CHINESE!!!

And more, to my brothers and sisters in Group-A (not those "Green" people),
Let me say I never have any intention to hurt you. Now my last words, for
people working on pushing the bill, make the last best effort and achieve
final success. At that time, I will be very very happy, as much as you,
the covered one, have.

I BELIEVE S1216 WILL NOT DIVIDE OUR CHINESE IF ALL OF US HAVE A
GOOD UNDERSTANDING. CHINESE DID HELP EACH OTHER IN MANY MANY SITUATION.
CHINESE CAN/WILL HELP EACH OTHER MORE AND MORE!

Thanks all for your attention,

--ZW
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