"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." - John Kenneth Galbraith

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Comments on PRC netizens kicking up a big uproar about Singapore's treatment of Liu Guodong (the ex-table tennis coach):

A: The mainland Chinese thrives on such dramas. Every tiny frivolous thing gets blown out of proportion to satisfy their urges to see themselves uniting against a "foreign power".

Remember the Olympic torch fiasco last year? Nobody really gives a shit about the torch -- it has all along been a non-event at every Olympics -- a little PR gimmick to give the media something to report before the opening of the games.

Then come last year, when the mainland Chinese dramatized the whole thing, translating "torch" to "divine fire" in Chinese, getting Kung Fu masters to "protect the path" of the "divine fire", and deliberately provoking human rights groups, environmentalists, Tibetans, Fa Lun Gong practitioners, Taiwan independence supporters, etc, into playing the role of their enemies -- just so that they can kow peh kow bu to show their undying love and allegiance to China.

B: There is nothing more tragic than the history of China over the last 200 years. The way they fuck themselves over time and again. What we are seeing are the sons and daughters of the Ah Q.

C: The Han Chinese are surprisingly forgiving when it comes to tyrants of their own race (Han, that is). No matter how brutal and inhuman the tyrants are, they accept it matter-of-factly, some even embrace these tyrants.

But it's a different story when it comes to foreigners (Manchurians, Japanese, Russians, Americans, etc). When a stray missile hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing three, the Chinese reacted much more strongly than when Mao caused thirty million of his own countrymen to perish in the worst famine in human history.

This is the PRC brand of nationalism. To them, having one of their Ping Pong coaches snubbed by Singaporeans is far worse than having thousands of their fellow countrymen slaughtered by one of their own.

D: personally, i don't really care about what the ah tiongs are saying. what i found really laughable, however, was lucretious' wonderful use of english.

"one body behaviour," anyone? LOL! ROAR!!

he might want to think about blogging in a language he feels more comfortable in.