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ASIAN HISTORY & MODERN SOCIETY
(Updated
Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:25:28 PM
to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)
Who has had the biggest historical influence on the culture of modern Asia?
Mongols |
13%
Americans |
26%
Coreans |
11%
Chinese |
36%
Japanese |
12%
Europeans |
2%
Which Asian nation has created the most promising and dynamic modern society?
Corea |
35%
Japan |
34%
China |
4%
Taiwan |
27%
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ka,
what's the freedom for Western women. It exists on the paper,but the women don't make use of it. Look at Mongolian women (Outer Mongolia): they have the expression of of free humans. Some critics may argue Mongolian women looked like amazons--but by the same time it's a great expression of personal freedom. -Better be poor and free and rich and free only on a paper.-Western females are forced by their society to be charming and artificial. They are rich to buy things which please Western men.
rare stuff
Saturday, April 20, 2002 at 17:35:23 (PDT)
ka,
You're so far right that you became left on the otherside. ^_^
Free and rich are independent factors. Some of the richest nations in the world are not free or as free as the USA.
Your approaching this discussion from a moral superiority of view. Your stating we are free, hence, all the benefits you see in USA society (i.e. rich) stem from this. Economics does not factor in morality.
Counterparts....
Foot binding is a custom to alter the human female body to be more attractive. It has nothing to do with being poor. Like the western corset or wonder bra or plastic surgery occurs because a nation is poor.
Concubine/Mistress/extra-marital affairs. Also occur in the west. Granted it Asia due to it culture has a much more open attitude on the subject. But it is indicative of all males who wish to illustrate that they have enough resources to support more than one mate. Has nothing to do with a country being poor or women who have no economic opportunity. Have you every even spoken to a real asian "mistress", "little wife." They are not forced into it. They've been planning to hook the rich guy since they were in school.
Perhaps prostitution was the field you wanted to talk about. Because that would require a certain amount of poorness and lack of opportunity for an individual to see that occupation.
Unwanted female babies that too is a cultural phenomenon. Has nothing to do with wealth of a nation. China could be 1000 times richer and this would still occur due to environmental forces in China.
Similar to USA screening of fetus for certain characteristics. USA Mothers can choose to abort fetus if they don't like the results of the test. The question here is how you value life. If you see sex traits, chronic anemia, mental retardation, etc as similar value traits, then we are in agreement. If you agree China and USA can have different values on fetus and are morally equivalent, then we are in agreement. If you feel China and the USA should have similar values on a fetus, hence China lacking in morality, we will be in disagreement.
AC Dropout
Friday, April 19, 2002 at 10:37:29 (PDT)
AC Dropout--
I admit that I grew up in the U.S. with a rather conservative political views. (But in this forum, I appeal to be a radical liberal.) I am a 1.5 generation Korean American.
But you say that I don't see similiar counterparts in the West. I'm not very sure what you mean by that statement.
But being south Korean, I definitely have a much more harsher view of the perils of socialism/communism. And anarchy isn't very pleasant as seen as by various civil wars where the power of the central government is very weak.
But I want to point out that democracy is not necessarily a Western concept in that as Kim Dae Jung wrote in his writings, that both China and Korea had a meritocratic government examinations systems when Europe was still in feudalism.
Also I want to point out that western women, the most freest in the world, are also the richest. Perhaps they are richest BECAUSE they are freest, but I think the most pragmatic public policy is to focus on their bread and butter issues, rather than enacting laws the government and the public do not support.
Well, I guess I'm now a right-winger here, huh?
ka
Monday, April 15, 2002 at 14:42:24 (PDT)
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