<p>Peals-05, I wont challenge your criticism of the Chinese government at all. I am well aware of the many human rights abuses it has committed. And I wont deny them. What I want to remind you is that you should not mix up the Chinese government with the Chinese people, and in this case the Chinese students. The Chinese government may well be ignorant, be it purposely, rationally, or whatever adverbs you can stick in there. But unlike many Americans who chose to be ignorant themselves without any imposition from their government, even when its ideology encourages awareness and open-mindedness, the Chinese are not rationally ignorant, even though they may be forced to be ignorant about a lot of issues. First of all, they don't have the assets or the power yet to ignore the rest of the world. Secondly, The Chinese people or the Chinese students, if they want to, don't use their own country's significance of having the longest history, the richest culture or the most population as a rationale for ignoring the other cultures.
I also want to remind you I don't have any obligation to "look at my communist government before accusing America." I am not responsible for what the Chinese government has done even if I want to. I can make whatever point and whatever observation I want to, however totaliterian or democratic my government may be. I am not accusing America either. What you say am I accusing America of? Accusing America of its rational ignorance or self-interest? Mind you that, it is not me who started this "accusation", if you stubbornly consider it an accusation.
I was simply pointing out a difference between the American people and the Chinese that seems to have agitated you a lot. There are many things that the Chinese can learn from the Americans. Equally, there are also many other things that the Americans should learn from the Chinese. If I am accusing anything, it will be your over-defensiveness about your own perspective of America and China.</p>