American Pride and Prejudice, and Chinese Attitudes
On June 25, 1950, the Korean civil war broke out. The next day, the Americans blocked the Taiwan Strait. A week later, the United States intervened in the Korean War. In September, the US military landed in Incheon, and in October, the US military crossed the 38th parallel and burned the war to the banks of the Yalu River. At that time, it was just one anniversary of the founding of New China.
At this time, Americans believed that the New China could not participate in this war. The civil war had just ended in China, and wars in the southwest, northwest, northeast and southeast were not over yet. China, which had experienced a hundred years of war, was in a time when everything was in trouble and needed to rest. As the victorious country of World War II, the biggest beneficiary of the victory of World War II was the arrogant time. New China, which had just been established for the first anniversary, had no reason to fight with the world's first United States for a small peninsula.
Americans view the Chinese with their unique arrogance and prejudice. They despise the Chinese's importance to national security and territorial integrity, overestimate the Chinese's fear of war and their greed for temporary peace, and therefore turn a blind eye to China's warnings.
Before the US military crossed the 38th parallel, Premier Zhou issued a notice to the United States through the Indonesian ambassador that if the US military crossed the 38th parallel, China would not sit idly by. The United States' reaction to this was that China was conducting political and diplomatic blackmail. For countries like Europe and the United States who are accustomed to using political blackmail and blackmail, they arrogantly believed that China's solemn statements must also be bluffs.
As a result, on October 25, just three weeks later, facing the aggressive US and UN forces, which showed no sign of retreating, the Chinese volunteers crossed the Yalu River and fired the first shot to enter North Korea, kicking off the Korean War that lasted two years and nine months.
After the Korean War ended with the return to the 38th parallel peace negotiations, the United States General Secretary of Staff Brad commented that this was a wrong war against the wrong enemy at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and in the wrong way. The root of this mistake is that the Americans misread China's political propositions and demands with their unique arrogance and prejudice, and ultimately suffered a heavy blow in military and political terms.
69 years have passed since the outbreak of the Korean War, and the United States, a warlike country, is still launching wars everywhere. They either win, fall into a quagmire, make a lot of profits, or gain nothing. The world is changing rapidly, and the Americans are changing rapidly, but the only thing that remains unchanged is the arrogance in their personalities and the prejudice against the Chinese.
It was still in October that the general manager of a basketball league in NBA posted his political proposition about China on Twitter. His proposition was thin and powerless, and still had the ignorance and arrogance unique to most Americans. Without a full understanding of the affairs and history of other countries, he only took advantage of his own opinions and waved the flag and shouted because of several labels of freedom and democracy.
This is an era of freedom in which everyone can post their claims through social media, but it is also an era of less freedom. Americans defend the freedom they recognize themselves to the death, disdain for the normative freedom under the culture and systems of other countries, and even offend them everywhere. This abominable double standard has been repeatedly staged under the world discourse system dominated by Europe and the United States.
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is on fire, and the whole world has to pray for blessings and donations, but the Middle East has bombed more than a thousand cultural relics and monuments, and China has burned and plundered in modern times. Can European, American and Western countries have come out to apologize and return it? Western countries have completed the primitive accumulation of capital with a century of plunder and pollution, lived a good life, and mastered the top level of the world's wealth. Turn to hope that developing countries around the world can save energy and reduce emissions, and give you a beautiful earth.
Who really destroyed the earth? Americans have zero tolerance for racial discrimination in China. Sterling was forced to sell the team because of a private recording. After Chinese player Yao Ming came to the United States, in order to respect most of the black players in the NBA, he did not even say the common word, just because it was similar to nigger. However, when Morey pointed to the problem of China's territorial integrity and the bottom line of the Chinese, where is your zero tolerance?
At this time, you start talking about freedom, and everyone has the right to express their own opinions. Is the more than 9 million square kilometers of land in the United States obtained by the American people by talking about freedom? Texas, the largest state in the United States, where Houston is located, was seized through the US-Mexico War. Are Americans willing to give this fertile land of oil independent or return it to Mexico?
We admit that in the past few hundred years of world history, Western civilization has become the mainstream. You have developed a prosperous technology and a splendid culture. Most of the material civilization and popular culture in modern society have developed from Western civilization. But we must also admit that your civilization and culture is largely based on enslavement and exploitation of other civilizations and countries, especially modern China. In order to achieve the selfish desires and development of your civilization, our ancestors suffered from invasion and war, and after a hundred years of suffering, they were united and united again for the continuation and prosperity of the ethnic group. How can the blood and tears be taught in this? Can you understand the paradise of the United States of America who has only experienced one civil war in more than 200 years?
There is an old saying in China that do not do to others what you do not want others to do to others. Because China has endured suffering, it has been hard to develop after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and its roads are tortuous, but its future is bright. China's 1.4 billion population accounts for one-fifth of the world, but it does not export revolutions or launches a war of aggression against the outside world. On the contrary, the hardworking Chinese use cheap labor to become the world's factories and provide the world with high-quality and low-cost Chinese manufacturing. European and American countries use science and technology
The first-mover advantage of technology, creating technical barriers and trade barriers, has plundered most of its wealth in the process of globalization, but is not satisfied. With less than 5% of the population, the United States consumes 25% of the world's resources, masters 60% of its financial resources, creates wars everywhere, exports values, and seizes resources. Dressed with the skin of civilization and freedom, and is engaging in the facts of barbarism and aggression, your beauty and advancement are mostly based on the hardships and backwardness of other countries.
Such a country, a civilization, with the arrogance of rising for hundreds of years, looks at the ancient country across the Pacific with a prejudice. It is ridiculous to think that most Americans’ food, clothing, and consumption are made in China. In a country, so many people can engage in non-productive industries such as sports and entertainment. Are your food, clothing, furniture and cars transformed by God? It’s just that you have used the first-mover advantage of technology to master the operating rules of this world and make many uses
Barriers, attempting to limit China to the positioning of world factories. Chinese people are unwilling to be just a sweatshop for Westerners. We need to transform, develop technology, and build our beautiful Datong society. At this time, Westerners and Americans jumped out again, fearing that China's rise would affect their beautiful lives, create all kinds of troubles, attempting to split China and let China fall into chaos and division like the Soviet Union. In the end, they can lie on our bodies to absorb nutrients, just like the Qing government was divided more than a hundred years ago.
Back to the tweet of the general manager in October, Darryl Morey. From this tweet, and the subsequent reactions of NBA president Adam Silva, and others in the United States, it can be seen that 69 years have passed, and the arrogance and prejudice of Americans have never changed. However, on the first anniversary of the founding of New China, China dared to send troops to North Korea. Now, it is the 70th anniversary! China has changed a generation, and the new generation of young Chinese people have never forgotten the blood flowing from their ancestors. Our generation has grown up watching Japanese anime, listened to Hong Kong and Taiwan songs, and has pursued European and American sports and cultural idols.
This is because the beautiful human nature contained in art and sports is not distinguished from nationality or national boundaries. No matter where a star, a movie, or a song comes from, as long as it is beautiful, moving, and inspiring, we will like and love. But this does not mean that most people will lose their minds and forget that the basis of liking and love is mutual respect. For our group, support for national unity and guaranteeing territorial integrity are the bottom line of this respect. If you break the bottom line, everything will be free from talk! Because our generation is a generation with self-esteem and know how to love and patriotism.
We are undoubtedly full of emotions for the NBA basketball event. It accompanied us through youth and through exciting days and nights. But in front of the bottom line, there was no apology, no remedy, no respect and understanding, and we could only forget each other.
As sang in "My Motherland", a friend will have good wine when he comes. If the jackal comes, a hunting rifle will be welcomed.
Chapter completed!