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The bit I liked most about the games so far was when a British Journalist tried to cover a 'free Tibet' protest and was beaten by Police, thrown into a van and had a Tibetan flag planted on him.
He got out because the Chinese Government don't want to admit that this kind of thing happens in their country but the planting of evidence which could have been enough to give the reporter a life sentence just shows what a disgusting society they live in
I'm amzed though that people have been China bashing and not mentioned the fact that heathy baby girls are often killed when they're born as the parents really wanted a boy. Killing and aborting girls is pretty acceptable there. Or maybe we shouldn't judge other cultures?
He got out because the Chinese Government don't want to admit that this kind of thing happens in their country but the planting of evidence which could have been enough to give the reporter a life sentence just shows what a disgusting society they live in
I'm amzed though that people have been China bashing and not mentioned the fact that heathy baby girls are often killed when they're born as the parents really wanted a boy. Killing and aborting girls is pretty acceptable there. Or maybe we shouldn't judge other cultures?
Don't go there.
Oh, def. I like watching the sports. I'm pissed that the brazilian sync. swimming team isn't competing. That's why I'm so butthurt about these games
They are here with me, they are washing the dishes at the moment.
No no no no no no. The superbowl will never CGI their stuff. If they present to the audience that they're having fireworks, they're have real fireworks. ha1...it'd have been cooler if we all found out they had even CGI'd the crowd in.
Truth be told, I think the Olympic opening ceremony has gotten a bit out of control. Yeah it's beautiful, blah blah blah blah. But I'm kinda like the fat kid in the candy store, I don't care about the beautiful wrapping...I just want the candy.
Your right. You shouldn't judge other cultures. America aborts 40 million babies a year, whats your point?
You can't judge a society or culture based on your values, because chances are there society operates differently and doesn't share your beliefs.
As for the "tibet hippie" I'm happy he got beat. Hope he learned his lesson to Piss off.
have a good day
You seem to have missed the point; the journalist wasn’t a ‘Tibet hippie’ at all, the flag wasn’t his and he had no part in the demonstration, he was just trying to cover the story which the Chinese government had promised the free world that journalists would be free to do. The police were carrying a Tibetan flag on them so they could beat people up and then plant the evidence on them
Read my post again, they kill healthy babies that have already been born; that's called murder. In some cases the girl even grows to a year or two but if the woman falls pregnant with a boy the girl 'disappears'
"A tradition of infanticide and abandonment, especially of females, existed in China before the foundation of the People's Republic in 1949," note Zeng et al.. ("Causes and Implications," p. 294.) According to Ansley J. Coale and Judith Banister, "A missionary (and naturalist) observer in [China in] the late nineteenth century interviewed 40 women over age 50 who reported having borne 183 sons and 175 daughters, of whom 126 sons but only 53 daughters survived to age 10; by their account, the women had destroyed 78 of their daughters." (Coale and Banister, "Five Decades of Missing Females in China," Demography, 31: 3 [August 1994], p. 472.)
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Really Phate? Maybe you should do some research into a country's actual facts before making such rash and ignorant judgments...
40million a year huh? Yeah....Right...
Close to 40million yet? Nope...
You've quoted an excerpt citing an event that happened in China more than 50 years ago. And back to the later 19th century. The words of the text (that I've highlighted for your benefit) suggest that it no longer occurs. Do you have such proof that it continues to this day? When I say proof, I mean credible proof. I'm not saying I have proof to the contrary as would be impossible to have, but I personally don't go looking this **** up, so I wouldn't know about it and am genuinely interested in seeing what you could produce in terms of evidence.
If such is the case that this more widespread infanticide ended in 1949 (as that is what your excerpt reads, in my opinion) then we are holding nations to be to this day accountable for past mistakes. If so, then if I remember correctly, it was not too long ago in our nation's short history (in a historical, not personal sense) that it was perfectly acceptable to take the people of africa and sell them as slaves in this country. Oftentimes being the case that their children were sold off away from their parents as the property of someone else. Such circumstances no longer being valid, I certainly wouldn't attempt to deem that as acceptable doctrine today and would not hold an entire country at fault because of it.
I dont' remember if you're american or british, though i'm sure i could find and i am sure you are aware of a similar circumstance as to your own home country that would prove an equally fitting example. I'll leave that to your own knowledge of history.
Furthur more, even if it was the case of such practiced infanticide still ocurring in china, it would statistically be impossible for anything but a very small minority to practice such infanticide. China has a population of more than 1.3 billion. Find a credible source giving infanticide statistics (and we are not counting abortion lest we should consider abortion murder as well, and let's not get into that debate) and divide it by the total population number. that's the percent we'd be talking about. Would you judge the whole based on a part? Any culture is in trouble if you do that.
As usual, ignorance and the perverse desire to judge something you don't understand (or perhaps in this case don't have accurate and up to date information on) is prevalent here.
I tihnk I'm done with this thread, I'll stick with fitness discussion on this forum, as that's about all that many people here have anything actually worthy to say about.
You guys...I just made this thread because I was having a bad week and needed something to haet on besides my sick stomach. You guyz are getting' too haet happy on each other in this thread.
p.s. Virus is gone now and I'm well enough to get back into the gym. So let's talk about punk music and flowers now.
p.s. Virus is gone now and I'm well enough to get back into the gym. So let's talk about punk music and flowers now.
Wait wait wait. I only said bacterial infection because the doc assumed it was a bacterial infection and put me on antibiotics. But the lab results came back negative for bacteria. Sooo...I had a nasty virus that just didn't want to go away for wayyyy too long.
Besides, I have to have my man card or all the 6th-12th grade heathens will try to eat me alive. They're like lil' sarcastic cannibals.
Besides, I have to have my man card or all the 6th-12th grade heathens will try to eat me alive. They're like lil' sarcastic cannibals.