Re: Greetings...in Chinese (its origin) and others

On Thu, 15 May 2008 22:29:26 +0800, rst0wxyz wrote
(in article 
<40091faf-1e5e-4951-a234-e29c28a5f508@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):

> On May 14, 11:32 pm, Jim Walsh <jimNOwalsSPA...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 May 2008 22:57:29 +0800, rst0wxyz wrote
>> (in article
>> <f794cb44-32a5-4f52-b3fd-f59e9ce32...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>> 
>>> For centuries, Chinese people greeted each other with "Have you eaten
yet?"
>>> which was the indication that China was a land of hard****p and
starvation.
>> 
>> So, please explain why that is invariably what my mother says every
time I
>> see her?
>> 
>> [Your inability to respond is evidence.]
> 
> Hard****p and starvation was not limited to China.  It was a worldwide
> problem.  Perhaps, your mother may also grew up where food was not
> taken for granted.  She may have gone through a time where she didn't
> know where the next meal was coming from.
> 
> Of course, America's youths eat too much, and do less.  It's now a
> health problem, not a starvation problem.

Well, my Mom grew up in the USA. You have used the "Have you eaten?"
argument 
to show that China can not bear to have democracy, since it is full of 
starving people (or people who remember starving),

Now apparently "Have you Eaten?" just means food not taken for granted
where 
she grew up.

-- 
Love, Jim
(I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive 
crossposts.)


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