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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery
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To: RealMuLan who wrote (3216)5/20/2004 4:05:40 PM
From: RealMuLan  Read Replies (1) of 6370
 
a good article--Misunderstanding China (again)

A child custody dispute worthy of Solomon will be decided by a judge in Tennessee within the next 30 days, and while he will rule on the law, underlying cultural assumptions raise questions about just how well Americans understand China and how we appear to the rest of the world.
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If the Bakers keep Anna Mae from her natural parents, they will also deprive her of her Chinese culture. They say they belong to a group called "Families with Children from China" and that the girl participates in activities with other Chinese children. But that won't keep her in touch with her real culture, which is nearly 4000 years old. The Bakers have also said that they want Anna Mae to stay with them so she can "grow up and love the Lord." People find all sorts of ways to try to convert the Chinese to Christianity. For example, I've known people who have gone to China ostensibly to study or to teach English as a second language whose only purpose was to save souls.

For Americans who wonder why the United States is hated by so many, it is simple: We try to impose on other cultures democracy, Christianity and capitalism, as though they are the way, the truth and the light and nothing else matters.

The custody dispute in Tennessee is a microcosm of a larger problem.

R. Thomas Berner, a professor emeritus of journalism and American studies at The Pennsylvania State University, lived in China in 1994 and has returned on visits five times. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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