On May 20, 9:01=A0pm, Jim Walsh <jimNOwalsSPA...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Wed, 21 May 2008 02:46:42 +0800, rst0wxyz wrote
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> > On May 20, 7:33=A0am, "Ed" <fri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> "Jim Walsh" <jimNOwalsSPA...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> China has been a recognizable civilization for about 5,000 years.
For =
much
> >>> of
> >>> that time it was equal to or advanced relative to the other
civilizati=
ons
> >>> on
> >>> the Earth. In that context, the 4 or 500 years since 1500 are only
10%=
of
> >>> the
> >>> story.
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> >> The most im****tant 10%. Now is always more im****tant than then even
if
> >> things that happened then affect the now.
> >> Whether or not they were equal to or more advanced than others 500 or
1=
,000
> >> or more years ago they were still not very well off. I'm guessing
that
> >> you're posting from one of the two cultural groups these messages
have =
been
> >> going out to. Here, at mimf, the past is of little or no im****tance.
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> > Of course, the past is im****tant. =A0The past tells us where we have
> > been, how we progress to today's society. =A0We spend a lot of money
to
> > learn the past. =A0The museums spent a lot of money to dig and learn
> > more of the past. =A0Our universities have huge history departments
with=
> > big staffs. =A0We spent a lot of time learning of the past.
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> Now, take your own advice and learn that China's past is not "starvation
a=
nd
> famine".
Jim Walsh, living in Taiwan does not make you an expert on Mainland
China. Why don't you visit Beijing, and take a tour to the Great
Wall. The tour bus will take you to a building where displays of the
China's past. One of those displays was about a village didn't have
anything to eat, and the villagers were eating grass.
Even the Mainland Chinese leaders recognized that starvation was part
of Chinese past to put up a display to show it.
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