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The Americans are spreading the Ideas, Customs, and Culture of their Parents ... Great Britain. So, if I were you, I wouldn't be complaining too much.
The Chinese feel the West has 'humiliated' them for the last 100 years. Can you say "Opium War"?
(Thanks iolo .... here's another fine mess you've gotten us into)
anatta (01-11-2019)
Jack (01-11-2019)
Sick man of Asia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Asia
The phrase "sick man of Asia" or "sick man of East Asia" (Chinese Simplified: 东亚病夫, dong ya bing fu) originally referred to China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when it was riven by internal divisions and taken advantage of by the great powers. China was forced to sign a series of unequal treaties, culminating in the Japanese invasion of China during World War II. The phrase may be considered derogatory, as it mocks Chinese government and the Chinese people for being weak. The phrase was intended as a parallel to "sick man of Europe", referring to the weakening Ottoman Empire during the same period.[1] Like the "sick man of Europe" term, it has also been used to refer to numerous other Asian countries.
Jack (01-11-2019)
lol.."cheap thrills" huh?
seriously you know more about the Chinese economy, and mindset than 90% of all Americans.
You know more about the Kurds then I do.
China had a real inferiority complex after eons of a complex empire.
It still plays on their collective minds (making them x-tra arrogant. lol)
I don't know how you were diverted / You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted / No one alerted you
Jack (01-11-2019)
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
ברוך השם
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Jack (01-12-2019)
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