<>Generally speaking, the article is correct in social & cultural perspective describing Chinese people's basic character. These characters have been iterated by many Chinese & Western philosophers & sociologists during the past hundred years, from Lin Yutang to Lu Xun.</P><br /><>If you think these characters belong to American rather than to Chinese, it seems you don't know either culture.</P><br /><img src="/static/legacy-emoticon/Dvbbs/em01.gif" />
<>Frankly, i feel 90% of what are described here is totally unture. </P><br /><>For the meaning of living, Chinese people around me and including me pretty much believe that spiritual well-being and contribution to human society are much more important than materialistic comfort and correspondingly we do derive a large part of happiness more from dedication than from occupation. This basic fact will be more resoundingly ture if one has chance to know more Chinese who keep religious confidence. </P><br /><>My gut feeling tells me that this author forms his view possibly through 90% observation of simple social phenomena and news reports about China. Obviously dearth in his methodology is in-depth communication, talk to different Chinese of different level and commingling with the life of Chinese. By doing so, he may possibly can draw back this article from rushing into a certain few hasty and oversimplified points. </P><br><br /><div align="right"><font color="#000066">[此贴子已经被作者于2005-9-2 16:27:28编辑过]</font></div>
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><STRONG>这大概是我们周围的很多美国人想说而不敢当着我们的面说的话。通篇充满了傲慢和无知。其中的不少话如果用来描述今天的美国人，我看倒再合适不过了。贴在这里，搏君一笑。</STRONG></P><br /><
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