Hello Mary, If you wish, we can continue this discussion Message 19756506 without disturbing that CFZ working thread on a Monday AM.
Something gave me the feeling that my post Message 19755714 is disagreeable to you. You will find that there are plenty of folks on this thread who may agree with you.
I do not want to give you the impression that I am being difficult, and please know that I welcome discussion.
<<do not underestimate Western Civilization>>
… what precisely made you think that I do?
There have been folks on SI that had taken my posts in an ethnocentric way, nationalistic manner, or even attaching personality traits to the posts such as ‘pessimistic’.
Whereas the reality is that I post because achamchen.com and I believe we are simply discussing about financial survival
Message 16222275
<<August 16th, 2001
… Money is forever a refugee, with no nationality, ethnicity, religion, or loyalty. Money moves, perpetually, out of danger, away from harm, into welcoming ports of temporary call, waltzing through frenzied parties, flirts with the local lovelies, and then, once more, moves on, refugee once more>>
In the past, some folks believed that the way I write is somehow unconnected with the way I allocate wagers and take up gambles, take for example Message 15113604 <<January 3rd, 2001>>, and of course that is wrong, because time is precious, and I cannot afford to think one way, write another, while invest in yet a third way. To put my thinking in context, all my investment moves are based on what I write and in turn, on what I think, for all to challenge as they will or ignore as they please achamchen.com .
<<You, yourself, are a product of Western Civilization>>
… in a manner of speaking achamchen.com .
<<The Chinese … project that it will take 100 years for them to fully catch up with the West ... In my opinion, I think it will take much longer, if ever>>
… which west, Italy, England, America? My suspicion, we will not recognize the world within our lifetime. But, we can only wager on a reasonable horizon, and so I will go with my script but invite alternative views for consideration so that I do not make a terrible mistake at a horrible cost.
<<First of all … occupy the center of the court>>
… I think, throughout the millennium, the ‘center’ had tended to shift and I have no particular reason to believe that the shifting has stopped on count of 2004.
<<Second, the Chinese have a tremendous disadvantage in communications because of the structure of their language>>
… I suspect it is perhaps not wise to fall back on structure of language as a competitive advantage, as language is perhaps indicative of thought process, and as such, what is a disadvantage one day can easily become an advantage the next, like chromosomes sequences.
In any case, the Chinese speaking PhD students in the west do not seem to suffer unduly for their language ability issues (or should I perhaps say multiple language abilities?) vis a vis their Indian colleagues.
Additionally, the future holds many possibilities, mostly unexpected. You see, in an alternative version of the coming world order, post TeoTwawKi, suppose for a moment that the manufacturing of China is married to the software of India and both manages to tap into the resources of Russia and Australia and Indonesia, what will then be the center of the world? Oops, can this be the direction? Is this happening? We will have to wait and see.
The wonderful thing about our journey towards TeoTwawKi is that the journey itself is the fun, not the destination, and never the destination.
<<The Chinese language is not suited for modern times>>
… This is news :0)
<<The Chinese language will never (at least for several hundred years) be able to compete>>
... That must be why China is falling apart, after having survived invasions by the combined armies of the rest of the known world and whatnot for 300 years, long after cultures of equal or great heft have disappeared. You know, the difference between culture and pop culture ;0)
<<Science, technology, commerce and everything else, intellectually, will be communicated first in a Western language. By that I mean, fully accepted>>
… In a game, it is perhaps best that one understands and appreciates what one’s competitor is doing every step of the way, and leaving the other players in ignorance about what oneself is doing unless one chooses otherwise.
<<Finally, in education, I am sure that China (India as well) can turn out millions of computer programmers (some of them will be very good), but, how long will it be before China can produce a Jay Chen from their own educational system?>>
Message 17883711
<<August 16th, 2002
… The reason I do not locate myself in mainland China is that I cannot compete there with as much success.>>
Chugs, Jay |
