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| Posted on 2009-01-15 22:30:38 |
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No one wrote "happy new year" for the eastern new year here.
I hope that chinese people (Philip, and maybe Mishto, if something is true between her internet name and the reality) will be more polite.
In Paris, the chinese celebrates the chinese new year, and usually, they make a demonstration, and the not-chinese population can assist it because it can be pretty.
So please don't be shy. You can keep a chinese culture in the USA, let's hope. |
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| Posted on 2009-01-18 15:20:29 |
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| laaran |
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On the other hand, it is true that this celebration is just the celebration of a cycle, and nobody can tell where the beginning is.
Also there was like a problem about gas during that period. And celebrating in these conditions was difficult.
So, for this year, it is failed.
Maybe some forces will help them to prepare the next orthodox year. It is nearly 360 days to prepare it, but everybody knows that time alone does not help.
Instead of wishing each other a "happy new year", eastern people could change it for a "happy preparation of the next new year". |
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| Posted on 2009-01-20 20:30:17 |
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IMPOLITE.
what kind of politeness does the white man want from easterners, look at what that's gotten them in the past. |
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| Posted on 2009-01-20 22:12:08 |
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| laaran |
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Impolite, thanks for the correction :)
Hum.
There were maybe better times a long time ago.
My avatar is coming from Hunan, and was brought here by a traveller fond of China and Asia.
His name was Émile Étienne Guimet, and there is a museum in Paris with the piece of arts that he brought here.
Today, here, those who visit the museum have much respect for this piece of art and for other ones.
How did he get them ? He really paid (he was rich here, and really bought several/many piece of arts during his trip in Asia). He went there when europeans were trying to control the sea-trade of China (including with the help of violence), and when drug was starting to destroy chinese economy.
Yes, he didn't try to stop these wars or these destructions. He just travelled to Asia, and paid for several piece of arts. I think he was really respecting the piece of arts (because they are pretty and carry much history), and really paid a good price.
Was he respecting the chinese population ? Probably little. Culture, yes, population, no.
Here, Guimet (this man) was an industrialist. And here, many industrialists had little consideration for the french population. "Industrialization must advance, it is sad, people are very poor, life is hard, it will go better after the rude beginnings of industrialisation".
Many people in Europe suffered from the quick industrialization.
Today, some of us forget it, and some do not. But yes, we don't want to live it again, and we are scared of the low way of life in China. |
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| Posted on 2009-01-20 22:35:39 |
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| laaran |
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Also, since a few years, I did all I could to explain the contents of the books that we "received" here, since the Renaissance.
I can not do for piece of arts, I can not judge what was honestly bought, and what was rather robbed (or bought for a cheap price, profiting from the material problems of a foreign State).
It seems that, since Renaissance, some unhappy people were robbing their own country, then leaving it for Europe (or America), and started a new life here with selling the objects they were bringing in.
For this industrialist Guimet, it seems that it was not the case. Is it really true ?
Why don't you try to visit and judge yourself ? Very few tourists (and very few chinese people who work here) visit this museum. It is maybe time to start ? |
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| Posted on 2009-01-26 10:20:19 |
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| laaran |
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Happy new year of the fox. |
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| Posted on 2009-01-26 17:18:22 |
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Ox |
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| Posted on 2009-01-26 20:19:33 |
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Madam the teacher..... |
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| Posted on 2009-01-26 21:08:41 |
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happy ox year laaran.
although you know when you made the original post, how are you going to berate someone for wishing you a happy new year when it hadn't even happened yet? |
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| Posted on 2009-01-26 22:24:16 |
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| laaran |
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Ah, yes.
So I thank you for your wish, and I hope you will explain me soon the special luck that comes with the ox. |
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