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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.
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<p>That's interesting and true. While I have targeted the Chinese government for its faults, I never once implied that the Chinese people/students were conceited, less knowledgable, arrogant or less open-minded. However, you've used all those words to describe the American people. </p>
<p>And you expect me to NOT be defensive?</p>
<p>Let's take a trip through the thread and go through your glaring and offensive overstatements:</p>
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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.
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Guess what? **If* the American people or the American students want to, they don't use their country's significance of being the largest superpower the world has ever seen for ignoring other cultures, *too. So what's your big point? </p>
<p>(If you really want to get down to it, for thousands of years the Middle Kingdom showed quite a bit of "rational ignorance" towards other cultures, resulting in their downfall during invasion and imperialism (unlike, say, the Japanese who adapted to Western technology and could help themselves). I guess both America and China have been guilty of rational ignorance, at different times.)</p>
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since lets not forget America is the land where self-interest prevails and where self-interest is the backbone of American democracy.
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<p>Really? Did you get that from a textbook? </p>
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Do you see or know any American high school or even college student who is learning Chinese
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the truth is that most Chinese students are much more open-minded, more eager to learn than their American counterparts.
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The average Chinese students know a lot more about America than the average American students know about China.<a href="Now%20are%20you%20counting%20the%20overwhelming%20population%20of%20Chinese%20who%20live%20in%20impoverished%20rural%20agrarian%20villlages%20in%20the%20countryside%20or%20no?%20Because%20I'm%20not%20quite%20sure%20they%20know%20that%20much%20about%20America.">/quote</a></p>
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Many American kids... are blinded by their own complacency and the American-centric way of thinking at large. They surrender themselves to their arrogance and conceited ignorance which are a worse dictatorship than the Chinese government.
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<p>How can you say these things and NOT expect someone to get defensive, Alwaysfaithful? I mean, really.</p>