中国目前的确是全世界最不平等、最无人权的国家之一。中国发展到今天,占总人口绝大多数的农民的生活不但没有得到改善,反而恶化。很多农民被不同的既得利益集团或个人以极端手段剥夺了赖以生存的土地,还得毫无怨言地忍受及其恶劣的环境污染(请参阅近期New York Times 的相关报道)。农村城市从来就是两重天。谁来替农民说话?农民到底是不是中国的公民?他们连最基本的生存权都没法保证,更别奢谈受教育权。我们有什么理由反驳Kenji的论点“It is an ironic and inexplicable thing to see that China could allow millions of its young people remained illiterate, and deprived them of the opportunity to receive decent education, while boasting academic achievement at few elite schools. China could win umpteenth medals in Olympic Games, while denying its people the right to have a decent physical education. In Chinese minds, education is not about seeking truth or improving quality of life but a symbol of prestige and status. ”
I remember talking to a person who has visited China several times in the past and asking his impression of China. I was quite disappointed from what I heard. When I asked his opinion on whether China could become the leading power in the world, as it has been cranked up by news and media that predict the coming of the so called Chinese century, he said he does not believe it is possible now or any foreseeable future. I asked him why and he told me because most Chinese people are not qualified to be part of the advanced society. He mentioned when he was waiting bus in Beijing, the Chinese people simply dashed towards the coming bus like a swarm of rats to get off a sinking ship. Pushing and pulling each other as they tried to get on board, no one showed any courtesy because every one was afraid of not getting a seat. He was extremely stunned by Chinese people's disrespect of law and public order. How could a nation inhabited by a group of such impetus rabble ever develop into a respectful power?
Why people despise Chinese?
Most people will agree on the fact that most Chinese people lack of honesty and the sense of social responsibility. Yet few have the answer as to what is the cause of these notorious traits of the Chinese people. What has made Chinese such a nuisance in public eyes? As always, to find answer one needs to carefully study the psyche of the Chinese people. We need to understand the basis of this cultural abomination in order to correctly interpret the ugly behaviors commonly existed among the Chinese people. Of course, we could well indulge ourselves in a habit of ridiculing the despicable behavior of the Chinese people if we fail to come up with a logical explanation. After all, few can resist the pleasure of watching an intriguing human drollness that has brought us both tear as well as laughter. So much so that, after a period of time, the notion of Chinese, both in racial and cultural sense, has degenerated into a derogatory word describing the undesirable and annoying behaviors or the attitudes of certain type of people. For example, when questioning a person’s honesty, people will say “Don’t be Chinese” “Do not act like a Chinese” or “Do not play Chinese game with me”. “Chinese” has become an eloquent adjective used to depict the general perversity of human mentality.
To diagnose the cause of the Chinese syndrome, it is advisable to understand the formation of Chinese characteristics. Is Chinese mentality a hopeless genetic abomination or a curable disease inflicted by the power of environmental effects? These questions have puzzled the scholars even since the time China become a world wide focus. Since the beginning, Chinese have been living in an isolated and relatively egocentric environment which gives birth to the notion of celestial kingdom or the center of the universe. In a sense, China has never considered itself as a nation but as a world of itself instead. Therefore Chinese people were never been introduced the concept of nationhood or social identity. Average Chinese are only acquainted with the idea of family and close kin; they could not conceive the notion of nation because they never have the ability and courage to establish one. Chinese culture, therefore, was a blood or kinship driven one, rather than a social phenomenon drawn upon the power of rationality. Not surprisingly, Chinese only concern with the wellbeing of their direct relatives but tend to be indifferent toward the suffering of the people that are not related to them. In other words, Chinese culture has not be able to evolve into a stage of civil society in which every one, regardless of his origin, is entitled with certain basic human rights. China, to the best, still exists in a clan oriented society. Chinese society could be precisely described as a collection of many kinship oriented tribes that worship their respective ancestries but care nothing about the idea of common humanity. That is why we consider China not a nation but a land inhabited by a group of people who shares the common life habits but bears no common social identity. Undoubtedly, this blood based view of moral value gives the birth to the mentality of selfishness and callousness which has been the decisive force hampering the progress in Chinese society.
Foreigners were constantly shocked by the inhuman and cruel treatment of prisoners or animals to which the Chinese show very little sympathy. Astonishing loss of human lives, quite often in millions, as the results of man made or natural disasters also manifests Chinese people’s callousness towards the value of human life. China and Chinese have been regarded as a phenomenon shrouded with a mysterious shadow. Indeed, how can one rationalize the shocking inconsistency between their disregarding of humanity and their stubborn claiming of moral righteousness?
Since the immemorial, China has always been clinging to the title of the “most populous country” on this earth, as if China was the auspicious candidate selected by the Almighty. However, a careful and thorough analysis shows otherwise. This bloody title must be attributed not to the blessing of God, but to the irresponsible birth policy of the Chinese government and the incredible breeding ability of the Chinese people. It was hard for Japanese to feel guilty about the fate of the Chinese they had slaughtered in WWII, since they never viewed them as human beings in the first place. After all, why should foreigners consider Chinese as human beings if the Chinese treat their own people like dirt bags? Who is to blame?
Chinese ruling class knew perfectly well the fatal and incurable weakness of the Chinese mentality and had benefited greatly by capitalizing on the infamous characteristics of the Chinese culture. Fear and greed have been the effective methods in controlling Chinese people’s mind. Chinese know virtually no politic in a modern sense since their incompetent minds could not grasp the essence of the political science, namely the notion of fair play and straightforwardness. The things Chinese called politics are nothing but an art of intrigues and treacheries.
China was never a society governed by law because law abiding behavior did not fit into the inner nature of the Chinese mentality. Chinese always want to find a short cut. They do not understand the fact that achievement must go hand in hand with hard work and sacrifice. You can’t have one without the other, and there is no substitute for hard work and sacrifice. Chinese are inclined to take but not to give. Taiwan could become a law abiding and prospering society owed largely to the rule of Japan in the past. Clearly, without the stern law and power of whip from external source, the Chinese have no chance of evolving into a civilized member of modern society, only Scuffling with each other on the pity cause. What Chinese need the most is not money or technology, but an independent character of dignity and integrity. Few Chinese understand the fact that the truth of life depends not on how much you can accumulate but on how much you can give to the society.
Chinese like to indulge themselves to the dark side of the human psychology: that is to glorify the weakness and to envy those who have strength and power. This mentality is a typical mentality of slavery. This mentality reflects people’s desperate attempt to reach the equilibrium of inner peace and the tragic failure in succeeding. Given the fact that China was ruled by Manchu and Mongols for many centuries, the slavery mentality has already replaced the grace and honor of ancient Han culture. Most sinologists as well as many Chinese scholars tend to believe that today’s China and Chinese have little to do with the real China in the past. One scholar was so disappointed on what he saw on Chinese people mentality that he took a bold to make a remark that: Japan, not China, is the genuine “China” or the so called celestial kingdom. There is even a doubt whether current Chinese and ancient Chinese share the same racial origin. I won’t be surprise to know that ancient Chinese had been some sort of Caucasian origin. As matter of fact, many archeological findings support this hypothesis.
Indeed, in this world nothing could be more vague and preposterous than the notion of China or Chinese. Since no one really knows what it really refers to. Given the geographical diversity, one can not correctly come up with a definition of real “Chinese” simply because they all vary from each other in some ways. For example, the Cantonese definitely believe they are different from the rest of the Chinese, especially those from the northern regions. The idea that China as a unified country and Chinese as a unified people is nothing but a bunch of lies to fool the undeveloped minds.
China's education
By kenji Asahara
China was well known through out of history for its devotion towards knowledge and learning. However, to fully grasp the true picture of Chinese education one has to look into something deeper than what meets the eye. In China, education does not play the role it supposes to play: improving the overall quality of its people. In fact, it did the quite the opposite. Most people agree that education ought to be the most important public resources that people should have access to. This is not the case in China. Judging from the average education level and moral standard of its citizens, current China surely clings to a victory in the contest of who is the most backward and ignorant nation on this earth. It is an ironic and inexplicable thing to see that China could allow millions of its young people remained illiterate, and deprived them of the opportunity to receive decent education, while boasting academic achievement at few elite schools. China could win umpteenth medals in Olympic Games, while denying its people the right to have a decent physical education. In Chinese minds, education is not about seeking truth or improving quality of life but a symbol of prestige and status. Chinese intellectuals demand respect from others not because what they have contributed to the wellbeing of others but simply because of their possession of certain knowledge. In fact, most of them are just a bunch of useless eaters who know how to take exams and care little about truth and integrity. Once again, in China, the purpose of education is not to help society to improve its overall quality but only to serve the ruling class and the wealthy minority. The government departments in China usually proudly labeled themselves as people's this or people's that, but none of them really serves the best interest of people. They only serve for the best interest of themselves and their own clans.
Chinese educational system, to a large extent, has been a matter of failure and disgrace. It has failed to serve what education supposes to serve: the society. It did not provide society with many useful individuals. It only created a group of opportunity chasers who were eagerly to take advantage of what the society could offer but cared nothing of what they could give back in return. China could produce large number of highly trained technical personnel, but not many qualified managerial experts who can run the shows. To serve a company and society, technical skills are not enough; one needs a leadership of courage and integrity of which most Chinese people are having such a daunting deficit. As Arthur Smith, a famous Western missionary pointed out a century ago: What Chinese people lack the most is not wisdom and intelligence, but a genuine character of courage and integrity. This evaluation, though hundred years old, is still a valid one today in correctly diagnosing the very cause of the Chinese syndrome. The wrongful usage of public resources such as education inadvertently thwarted the social and moral development of the Chinese society.
As a foreigner who is relatively familiar with Chinese affairs, I can tell that most Chinese top institutes are nothing more than the preschools for Western universities. Most Chinese college graduates feel no sense of guilt to go aboard and work for foreign countries, knowing the fact that they owed their education primarily to the sacrifice of the Chinese people. With destruction and gradual fade away of traditional cultural value; most Chinese people, including the educated ones, are wandering on the corner of mental avenues like lost dogs without place to go. Cults and superstitions of all sorts, conjured up with Western Christianity, find great market in China where people are suffering severely from such a spiritual malnutrition that they will take anything that seems promising. Unfortunately, no spiritual package will solve the problem Chinese facing if the Chinese continue to deny the reality and do not allow their mind to be fully developed. As the biblical teaching elaborated, God will save those who save themselves. Chinese people are so indulged themselves in the superstitious magic that they fail to act as the helmsmen of their own life. Most Chinese, even those western educated ones, failed to grasp the essence of Western civilization. Chinese are used to entertaining the idea that Westerners must be the close kin to themselves, without knowing the core value of Western culture, unlike Chinese, rests in the habit of conquering and the relentless pursuit of change. Chinese are so ignorant and crass to assume others must behave and think like they do. Nothing could be far from truth than this smattering assumption of others enjoyed by the uncouth Chinese. Of course, the Chinese could well stew their mind in their own juice by relishing the dream of being the center of the universe. Unfortunately, Chinese will not find their fortune by breaking a fortune cookie because the world belongs to the movers and shakers who like to beg for no one and have the absolute control of their fate. In the world where the course of history was written by the power of blood and iron, Chinese have no place to stay. As the old saying goes, you lead, follow or get out of the way. Free riders and gold diggers like the Chinese do not deserve any respect from decent people.
Since Chinese culture does not encourage the noble characters like risk taking and adventure, Chinese people's life appears humdrum and deficient of excitement. Chinese are overly risk averted, so much so that they do not want to take the chance to make life better. Virtually none of the modern industrial equipments and scientific discoveries could find its Chinese origin. However, the Chinese have never been hesitated to sneak out other's intellectual works. Ironically, despite the exhausted and hysteric claiming of moral superiority, Chinese obsess with material gain far more than Westerners do, and show very little or no interest in living a balanced and meaningful life. Most Chinese find themselves unacquainted with the notions such as "spirituality" "freedom of worship" and “mental health” because their minds were unable to set foot into any higher level of existences. Their minds are simply too busy and preoccupied with cupidity and pitiful desires of animal instincts like sex or food. Of course, Chinese could always boast the richness of their cuisine because they spend more time than others on this basic physiological need of human beings. This might be the only thing that the Chinese could brag about. No place inhabited by Chinese one could not find Chinese restaurants and eating places which often stand next by the smelly public toilets. Indeed, feeding from one end and defecating from the other like a hog vividly exemplify what Chinese people’s life is all about.