Category Archives: Cross Culture Communication
How to treat family life
Family life is a big part of human life. Every culture has to deal with it. From my experience, family life is a problem in both the west and the east. It is hard to have a normal mind about … Continue reading
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Community vs. Networking Part 2
In China, the media is very much controlled (in a different way the media in US is controlled), so it is hard to get to know what is going on at the national level. You read the reports in the … Continue reading
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A list of modern Chinese writers
Now here is a list of modern Chinese writers that I have learned quite tremendously from: Wang Xiaobo: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Xiaobo ) He died in 1997, only about 45 years old. In my opinion, he is the greatest writer of modern … Continue reading
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Two different philosophies of life and society
In the east, the philosophy is how individuals can best utilize the resource of their own limited body. So it emphasizes how you can reach your best potential through training of your body and mind. It emphasizes the maximum use … Continue reading
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Managing common property is a challenge
In our time, there are a lot of thinking that many resources should be managed as common properties instead of being privatized. For example, I just watched the documentary Flow the other week: http://foodandwaterwatch.org/ As I came from China, a … Continue reading
A world of feelings
In Chinese Buddhism, we say that the human world is a world of feelings while the rest are the worlds of no feelings (not sure how to translate this exactly). When we see anything, a building, a tree, from human … Continue reading
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Peace: What is peace? How do we build peace in our world?
We human beings, like everything else, are just like simple objects, which have both inside and outside. Deep inside of us is an inner core. On our outside, we have an outer layer that is in touch with the outside … Continue reading
Collective vs. Individual
See the article Harmony and the Dream by David Brook. He did touch on a deep distinction although I don’t quite agree with the way he phrased it. A short response is that I want BOTH ( Collective and Individual), … Continue reading
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Two ways to help China
So for people in the west who do care about people in China, here are two ways to help. One is as mentioned in Chinese Renaissance, the bottom level cultural communication and engagement. The other way is to stop the … Continue reading
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The Chinese Renaissance
This article is written for people in America who really care about situations in China. With this article, I hope it can give a basic stretch of the cultural thread that China is coming from, e.g. China’s growth path, and … Continue reading
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Watching the Olympics opening
As I said, I didn’t pay much attention to Olympics. So until I started watching it, did some questions come up to me. Now China is before the eyes of the world. This is the chance for China to express … Continue reading
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The myth of Chinese population
This came up a lot at last night Olympics watching party. I feel there is some misconception here. People wonder why China and India have so many people. Actually if you combine all the people in Europe, North America, South … Continue reading
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Human world Inside Biosphere 2
I went to a talk by Jane Poynter, a crewmember of first Biosphere 2 enclosure. As this talk was given at a Buddhism gathering, interestingly most questions were drawn to the conflicts the crewmembers had living inside biosphere 2. Although … Continue reading
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Development and Environment
This is the third installment based on a conversation with a friend today regarding China. As in the previous post, I said the stories in China are following a different thread than the ones in the west. The same is … Continue reading
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A brief rundown of Chinese modern history
This is to continue the last post, which is actually a conversation with a friend. The stories in China have a completely different thread than those in the west. To understand China and things happening there, you have to have … Continue reading
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Olympics and China
A lot of conversations related to Olympics and China came up recently among friends. I didn’t really pay much attention to Olympics. I wasn’t really excited about it. (However, I was very excited about China’s entry into WTO, and I … Continue reading
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News of China
People talked about polluted environment and so on in China. I didn’t want to response because if I responded people just thought it affirmed their assumption that I would defend my country. Besides, they are just bored. It is not … Continue reading
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China and environment
Nowadays, China is increasingly blamed for polluting environment, for which they should be blamed. When I was in the middle school, I had an article published in a local newspaper expressing my sadness seeing a local river polluted in a … Continue reading
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China, Capitalism, Communism
Since I came to US, for many times people enjoyed talking before me about China and communism. It actually doesn’t bother me at all. I learned not to be bothered by other people’s stupidity. I just wonder: yes, China is … Continue reading
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Driver Licence for Illegal Immigrants in NY State
This has pasted for a few weeks. This is a news coverage at that time. The host critisized equalizing illegal immigrants to the black people in the segragation time. But remember at that time, segragation is legal. And a centrury before … Continue reading
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