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AA ATTITUDE TOWARD HEIGHT
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Assuming you are an Asian American, how important is height in your assessment of a person's attractiveness?
It's a key element of attractiveness. |
20%
It's one of many factors I consider. |
44%
It's less important than other personal qualities. |
28%
I am not attracted to tall people. |
8%
Assuming you are an Asian American, which best matches your feelings toward your own height?
I'd like to be 3 inches taller. |
43%
I'd like to be an inch taller. |
27%
I'm happy with my height. |
26%
I'd like to be an inch shorter. |
4%
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Let's stop the inter-Chinese hate. China is made up of so many groups and each can complement each other, and contribute to China's rise as a great superpower again.
Cantonese, Shanghainese, Fujianese and other Southerners are good at business. They can make China a commercial and economic superpower.
Northern Hans, Manchus, Mongols, Huis have a long martial and militaristic tradition. We can defend China and stand up for China's pride against Western arrogance. We can also build China's military and make China a great world military power, and make sure China always has a fiery pride.
Uighurs, Huis, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Tajiks can act as a bridge to the middle east, and strengthen China's influence in that region. Of course, China's gov. has to shape up in some of it's attitudes to Uighurs first though before this can happen.
China's many Thai, Lao, Burmese minorities like the Miao, Zhuang, Tai can act as a bridge to Southeast Asia.
I'm sure there are many other possibilities. Think about it. If the many groups of China is united, nothing can stop our rise.
N. Chinese
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 19:52:11 (PST)
Man of Lhasa,
GREAT POEM! As a Manchu, I am not offended. Chinese history is so long and China has changed much over the years. Manchus are now one of the peoples of China, and we have contributed our own share to the Chinese identity and history, both good and bad.
Sohhoh is very biased and hateful. Sure, the Ching dynasty was ill-equipped to fight the Western invasions, but would any Han done better? Besides, without the Manchus, China would just be a very small country with it's northern point being Beijing, and Western being Gansu. Because of the Manchus, China's territories reach to Siberia to Mongolia, to Central Asia to Himalayas. This is the glorious contribution of our great Manchu warriors to the Chinese nation.
Maybe I am no longer pure Manchu, perhaps we have lost our culture. But we are now part of something greater. We are part of the People's Republic of China with 56 national ethnic groups, and a rising superpower. Manchus are now Chinese, and we should use our warrior spirit to build China into a great superpower along with all of our other Chinese brothers and sisters, from the Cantonese to the Beijingers, from the Shanghainese to the Gansunese, from the Hui Moslems, Uighurs, Miaos, Zhuangs, Tibetans, Mongols, and the rest. China in the future will be a greater identity and a greater nation than it is now, and what it has been. I am sure of it.
N. Chinese
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 19:38:02 (PST)
If we study history, we will find out that we had allowed the Manchus to enter China. A Ming rebel general had opened the Great Wall for them to come in and quell a peasant rebellion. So much blood was shed during the rebellion that the people of the northern provinces actually welcomed and aided the Manchus into China.
On more than 2 occasions, the Han Chinese had opportunities to drive out the Manchus but didn't: 1) Remnant Ming leader Koxinga's drive in the southeast and 2) Wu San-guei's treachery and rebellion in the southwest, but the Chinese were content with Manchu rule and did not support these rebellions.
Most of the troops putting down these rebellions happened to be former Ming troops themselves now under the service of Manchu Ching and banner armies.
So, we had once accepted these Manchus, it is ridiculous to blame them and cast them aside as outside the fringes of legitimate Chinese history.
We had always regarded their rule as a continuity of the mandate of heaven, thus we saw them as more Chinese than not. Only later, do we blame our woes on them.
Manchus were Sinicized even before invading Ming
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 15:12:27 (PST)
ka is right.
Look even back to the Han and Tang dynasties, China was more outwardly looking than it has ever been. If we saying that foreign ideas and products never entered China in the past, then we are wrong. Even our word for watermelon (xigua) means "melon from the west (Persia)." to give one example.
The Tang was probably just as foreign as the Manchu Qing dynasty, only that the Tang rulers were able to claim Chinese descent patrilineally, but culturally and much of their maternal line had originally been Turkish. Even the 3rd Tang emperor preferred speaking in Turkish, and preferred to encamp outside the walls of the capital (Chang'an) in a Turkish yurt (tent) enjoying the hunt.
Why do we judge Manchus to be foreign and Tang to be native Han race only because of patrilineal descent? I am sure if we go way back to the Chou and Shang eras, the Chinese wouldn't even have been one monolithic group. It is only in the early Ming, did the Chinese distinguish themselves from others based on nationality. Prior to that it was just cultural differences that divided Han from non-Han. The fact that northerners settling in the south were able to absorb and amalgamate southern non-Han tribes into the Chinese ethnos is living proof and testimony to the fact that Chinese as an ethnic term is ambiguous.
The Mongol and Manchu rule made us aware of our Han and/or Tang ethnic heritage, but if we really went back to those 2 dynasties back in time, there was no such coinage. They were more inclusive.
what does it mean to be Chinese?
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 15:04:33 (PST)
Not Angry Chinese Guy:
:)
Angelique
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 13:02:30 (PST)
The Man of Lha-sa(mancha):
I can speak some Tibetan!!!!!!!
Bachra...Mo-mo..Cho-cho....
YUmYUm
I want to go to Tibet sometime...It sounds really cool...
Angelique.....
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 12:56:17 (PST)
Not Angry Chinese Guy:
Qian yan wan yu jin zai bu yan Zhong.
Angelique
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 12:45:34 (PST)
Beijing girls are the prettiest.
~~~Beijing Angelique....
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 12:32:58 (PST)
The Man of Lha-sa(mancha):
I like your style...hehe...(:
I think I'll write one too.....
Angelique
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 11:18:23 (PST)
ka:
For real!! I agree with you.....
Angelique
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 11:16:41 (PST)
The Man of Lha-sa(mancha):
Hahaha....I like it....
(I thought La-Mancha was a province in Spain.....?)
Your Majesty ....Angelique
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 11:15:24 (PST)
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