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Date Posted: Sat 11/10/03 21:05:37
Author: Chan Sing-yin (Simba)
Author Host/IP: OFSfa-01p3-74.ppp11.odn.ad.jp / 61.116.114.74
Subject: Re: Simba's work in Mongolia
In reply to: Lau Wing ON 's message, "Re: Simba's work in Mongolia" on Fri 10/10/03 02:49:46

I don't think the Chinese are ugly either. Anyway, if 20% of human beings are 'ugly', our species probably has no future (It probbaly really hasn't......)
It is the Chinese way: the 'Celestial Empire' view and how most (of course, not all - not me and surely not you) of them treat other races, is ugly.
Extremely Ugly.
We all know what this means: look at the general HKer view to the Filipino maids, or boat people from Viet Nam 20 years ago. I have seen many different races of people. Beyond any doubt, Chinese is the race that pays the least respect to others (particularly those with darker skin color than ours).
I believe most of the people you met in Inner Mongolia were Chinese (Han, I mean), or assimilated Mongolians, as I beleive you don't speak Mongolian. Last August, I was with a Mongolian from Inner Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar. I felt sorry about him, as he seemed disturbed. he was taught and believed that the Mongolians in China were 'real Mongolians' and the Mongolians in their own country were Russian puppets. He felt uneasy to see the Mongolians had their own free spirit - even in the old communist days the Mongolians still had a say of their future. Choibalsan, the dictator ruled Mongolia in the 1930s and 1940s, rebuffed Stalin's suggestion of Mongolia joining the USSR. So, my Inner Mongolian friend had to comfort himself that Mongolians living in China have better living standard. That means, apparently more money. But when I asked how many Chinese speak Mongolian in Mongolia? He fell silent. I know the answer: now even the urban Mongolians are not speaking their mother tongue anymore.
When I was in Hohhot (the old name of the city was 'Guisui', which means 'come back and be subjugated'. Chinese are very good at giving humiliating names to other races), I had a dinner with some officers. They had all lived in Inner Mongolia for more than 30 years, or almost longer than my lifespan then. None of them spoke any Mongolian, or bothered to learn at all. When I asked why didn't they try to learn. They said the Mongolian they knew all spoke Chinese. There was no need to learn. The old Mongolian scripts apparently were decorations, like those funny Japanese sometimes I see in the streets of Hong Kong.
Multi-cultural society is of course good, but is Inner Mongolia really multi-cultural? Isn't the Mongolian culture becomes only a tourist attraction, or only shows on TV variety shows?
I was a nationalist when I was a high school student. The more I study history, the more I feel disgusted of what my countrymen have done. The Chinese love to victimize themselves. It was the Europeans, it was the Japanese, were the villains. We Chinese are peace-loving people that never do anybody any harm. Such and such, we are still teaching our younger generation this way. That is one of the reasons why I have decided even if I have a child, I will never send him/her to a Chinese society to be educated. I want him/her to grow up unbiassed.
Of course I am not a nationalist now.

I have a Canadian friend lived in Taipei. I used to stay in his house with his sister and two dogs (To my honor one was actually named after me) when I visited Taipei in the 1990s. His sister's boyfriend was a Tibetan, whom I know could speak Mandarin but refused to speak whenever he knew you could speak English. I understood his anger, and I respected it though I think it was not always justified (the same view applies to the Chinese hatred to the Japanese too). I was probably the only man of Chinese origin that tried to talk to him in broken Tibetan. (And I am learning Mongolian now. We are not those stupid and arrogant Americans. We shouldn't expect everybody speaks our language.)

If we call someone a brother, we should at least respect his choice. If he wants to go, to break away from the family, he has all the right to do so. That's what real brotherhood means. Only with this kind of respect and mutual tolerance, a peaceful multi-cultural society can be achieved.

I love the Mongolians. I wish we are living in the same country - but not in the situation as the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Am I a Chinese. Genetically, yes. Culturally, I understand more Chinese culture than most Chinese do (because I make no mistake of the term 'culture'), but I don't necessary support it, let alone defend it. Do I support the Chinese views. Well, depends.

Again, am I a Chinese?

I don't care. Why should I?

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