Re: Tourists will be jailed if they talk politics in China

"PaPaPeng" <PaPaPeng@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:vjgj14lpn7qi8u3oc95u41te3uh4meui5h@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On 1 May 2008 07:38:02 -0500, "Toby" <kymarto123@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>And yet not one Chinese will openly criticize the government publicly,
or 
>>at
>>least the few who dare to try, like Hu Jia, are jailed. Mao is dead, but
>>many of his policies live on.
>>
>
>
> You mistake popular sup****t for the government  and reluctant
> politeness not to raise contentious issues with non Chinese as
> government oppression.  Why would any Chinese person want to discuss
> Chinese issues with you when you show such obvious ignorance across a
> broad spectrum of Chinese matters. You can't even remember the name of
> the next three Chinese leaders after Hu Jintao. And you make
> judgements on China based on your western expectations of how Chinese
> should behave according to your cultural biases, not how Chinese
> conduct their affairs in Chinese society. China has nowheere the
> social tensions you have in the West. It is both impolite and
> frustrating to have to explain to you and to correct you on every
> other sentence you utter.  Experience is such that even after
> correcting your mistakes you default back to your original prejudices
> the moment you read another biased western article.  You are a guest.
> So let's keep to bland pleasantries and enjoy the food.  Make your own
> observations and draw your own conclusions. We don't care how you mess
> up your own society.  Don't try to mess up ours.

Mr PapaPeng. I don't what you are talking about and I don't think you do 
either.