From: s9874194@phobos.ucc.umass.edu (s9874194)
Subject: Re: Epic of a Golden Banana, Chapter One
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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:03:00 GMT

In article <5976@transfer.stratus.com>, cheung@strider.hw.stratus.com writes...
>Article 40112 of soc.culture.china:
>cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi) wrote:
> 
> 
>>A lot of Chinese students became "pro"-CCP after they came to the West, before
>>that they were "anti"-CCP. I am one of them.
>>I am so glad that a lot of people from mainland are really matured
>>politically. I guesss this is one of the good effect of Culture Revolution,
>>among other effects(good or bad).
> 
>On that note, the story of a Golden Banana begins...
> 
>Once upon a time, there was this Chinese student who became "pro"-CCP after he 
>came to the West, before that he was "anti"-CCP.  
> 
>Sooner or later, he was summoned by Karl Marx.  In that godless abyss, he 
>became "pro"-religion,  before that he was "anti"-religion.
> 
>And Karl Marx got very angry and sent him to hell.  In hell he saw all that
>inequality and pain (for Karl Marx knows the daemon pretty well and made sure 
>that the guy was sent to the bottom 18th level), he became "pro"-God, before he
>was "anti"-God. Not that he was anti-Christ, he just did not believe there
>was a heaven and there was a hell.
> 
>So he arrived heaven.  He saw the ground was made of gold and pillars diamond. 
>The boundary of wealth was absolutely unheard of.  That reminded him of his 
>graduate, post-graduate, post-post-graduate life on earth.  He stood  up and 
>made denunciation, "if you have so much money, why didn't you send me some when
>I was back down there?"  He became "pro"-individualism, before that he was 
>"anti"-individualism.
> 
>Without a doubt, that caused immense wrath from God.  But God is loving and 
>caring.  God did not want to send the poor fellow back to hell, nor earth, nor 
>where Marx was for Marx and God don't communicate that well.  So God asked him 
>where he wanted to go.  The guy said to God, "please send me to Mao, after all,
>I am a Chinese."
> 
>And finally, he was there with Mao.  Mao sat him down, as he did with all his 
>followers in China.  Mao asked him, "why are you never in good terms with 
>where you are?"  To that question, he pondered a minute, and answered as if he
>was finally enlightened, "Chairman Mao, I have always been a "anti"-current Red
>Guard.  I firmly believe that this is one of the good effects of Culture 
>Revolution."
> 
>Because no one is living with Mao, there is no such thing as current and 
>anti-current. The two fellows keep debating each other and fight for as long as
>the universe lasts.  And they live with each other happily ever after.
> 
>As in most Chinese novels, I shall add, there is a poem to testify this story:
> 
>Before I wrote big character posters, 
>	now I flame small ASCII post on the net;
>Before I was a mindless Red Guard, 
>	now I am a mature post-post-post-graduate;
>Before I tried everything to come to the West, 
>	now I say what the heck, CCP isn't that bad;
>Before I hated Mao 'cause I thought he set China back,
>	now I know U.S.A. is in a worse mess.
> 
>To be continued...
DISGUESTING!!!!!!!! 
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