I had an appointment to meet this guy last night. Young guy, intelligent, well-educated. He was a couple of minutes late, and offered his apologies thus:
Him: “Sorry I’m late, I was eating dinner at an Italian restaurant.”
Me: “Oh yeah? Have you eaten Italian before?”
Him: “No, it was the first time. I don’t like it.”
Me: “Why not?”
Him: “Because I am a Chinese, so we shouldn’t like other countries’ food.”
Me: “I understand. I also don’t like Chinese food because I am not Chinese.”
Him: “But Chinese has many foods and is very good food. We have all good foods.”
And on it goes. The problem, you see, is that these people are Educated With Chinese Characteristics. That’s a fancy way of saying that, starting age two, they are told that they and their ‘culture’ are superior to anything else in the world. Other countries are only more developed because of a conspiracy by every other nation to keep China from assuming it’s rightful place as Hegemon of the World. And they really do believe it, deep down in that tiny black heart of theirs. Some people I know go on about how China is getting better – they are wrong. It is getting worse, fast. The level of extreme nationalism is already high, and there are many days I feel like a Jew in 1936 Germany. There’s trouble coming, and it’s being planned at the highest levels. Getting the ‘People’ fired up, resentful, and hating foreigners is only one part of it.
Just remember: Hitler got his Olympics, too.
Wo Shi Laowai - Wo Pa Shui 