A couple of months ago when we were with our small group, our discussions for the night got into races. I remarked then that many a time I’m really not proud to be Chinese.
How’s that? OK, so the Chinese are a people who have thousands of years of history, and in ancient times were technologically more advanced than equivalent civilizations at the same time. Call it a simplistic (mis?)understanding of our ancestral and cultural history, but just the other day, a friend forwarded to me a PETA link which describes using video and static imagery exactly what a fur farm in China does.
Before visiting the link, do be warned: the imagery is very graphic and shows some of the cruelest things people of my skin-color do to animals just so someone else can wear their pelts. The video showed a living animal methodically beaten with its head crushed, and while still alive (barely), stripped off its fur by Chinese workers.
http://www.peta.org/feat/ChineseFurFarms/index.asp
It’s crazy stuff and the sort of thing that makes your heart really boil. Makes you really ashamed of belonging to the same race as these guys, even if they’re several thousand kilometres north of where you’re at and saluting a different flag.
so sad… so cruel… ya, i share the same sentiments with you, which is why i feel v v offended when people associate me with them. they will do anything to profiteer. if they can add harmful substances to milk powder for human babies, what else can’t they do?
but i am still proud to be a SINGAPOREAN Chinese. we’re different.
While I’d argue that the cruelty and express moral ignorance toward animals is hardly unique to China and its people, I certainly understand where you’re coming from.
For similar reasons of National shame and embarrassment, when I travel abroad I dress in red flannel and speak with a Canadian accent! The subterfuge is transparent as I’m sure I don’t make for a convincing lumberjack, but it’s the thought that counts!