(Preface: In the Year of the Tiger is approaching, the People's Republic of second six decades, is about to open when the hospital was president of development and reform in the pre-holiday parties about me to write an article on Sino-US relations ; spicy strong, the Chinese people in the Year of the Tiger, the tiger style of life more beautiful, but hard work in the overseas Chinese in the Year of the Tiger, can enjoy the Chinese Tiger. Rao and others to wish you, Happy New Year!)
Dalai Lama, and sometimes turbulent relationship between the United States, we are trying to smoke and mirrors, ferret out the crux of Sino-US relations. talking about the topic of China and the United States, there is no doubt that there are differences between the two countries will certainly be, including political, economic, cultural, institutional, and I think some things get to the bottom or the views of the two countries, life values, and mode of thinking (mindset) are different. As a growing Chinese American, I deeply wait and see and appreciate these differences.
for with Chinese roots, but a lifetime in American life for me, if you ask me between China and the U.S. : very large. If you want to cover everything that clear these differences, it would be very
First of all, I want the gold code of American politicians, most of which is the current view held by mainstream American society:
the largest in the United States Museum of Natural History (Museum of Nature History) main entrance, there is an army horse one of the West Oddo b Roosevelt (the twenty-sixth president of the United States) statue, the base of the statue have this passage: make a choice, I choose righteousness.) If you go to the office of United States senators, especially Republican Senator's office, you will find the word to the wall will be hung on the site. They believe that the United States overwhelming moral and values, in order to Select 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Chinese people around the world declared solemnly, justice politicians think it is worthwhile. The Chinese people feel the need to compromise to achieve peace, at peace with each other like, so I chose the former, this is the biggest point of difference between the two countries.
Let us look at several other U.S. often talks about the In front of the house. They school every morning, have to face the national flag, his right hand on his heart, say the following paragraph:
I pledge allegiance to my Flag, and to the Republic for which it stand: One nation indivisible , with Liberty and Justice for all. (Oct. 11, 1892)
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stand: One nation under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all. (June 14, 1954)
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and the establishment of the Republic that it represents a mm under the guidance of all the people of God with justice and freedom are indivisible nation. (This is 1954 June 14 the edited version.) soldiers even if they do not agree with the president's policy will still go to war.
Itrs better to deal with the devil you know, than the devil you donrt.
best Are you familiar with the matter sorted out a deal with the devil, not a stranger to the devil.
Our policy is the one that works the best for us.
our best policy is a policy in our best interest.
If you can not take the heat, get out of kitchen.
If you can not stand the heat, then do the kitchen. (she said, politics is very dark.)
American values so different
of any country can live together, are based on economic interests, diplomacy is for the stalling tactics, all of the foreign economic and military have been established above, it is definitely not to betray their country by foreign interests. The so-called diplomacy, is to allow both sides more understanding to avoid those unnecessary disputes. But why to this day, has made a lot of before the United States, especially in World War II, when the world-famous Flying Tigers, but also out of humanitarian assistance to China, but why now the Americans are still generally not trust the Chinese communist, that obviously is a big country of China , have to so poor, the issue of the Chinese people in the world, not nosy, nothing good to do, become a not the pursuit of the Holy See, Pope persecution, adventure boat drifted across the Atlantic to the New World to overthrow the British colony, the establishment of the United States of America. The new China is to overthrow the monarchy and established and experienced warlords, civil war caused hh Chinese people's pursuit of life quite different. China is the first person is alive, pay attention to the golden mean, and do not take the initiative to find someone to trouble; while the United States, although freedom of belief, but they are for the Christian Nation, and pursuing the spirit of Jesus Christ, love their also loved the world. from religion, he loved to preach, if you do not believe in Christ, not eternal life, he conscience, so he knocked on the door every day, advise you to Bible study, to convince you to Christianity, prayer ground to save your soul.
China is a long history and replacing it with the land, the people the existence of discrete and dense population in this land, no not believe in Buddhism, Taoism, adaptable, inaction, or Buddhist house of fatalism, the Civil Service Marxist ideology is the belief of atheism, which are the understanding of Chinese and American people have a great impact. Chinese, vegetarian, will not refuse to eat meat at the same table with you, he would say, you eat you, he ate his . The American vegetarian, refused to eat meat or fish advocates at the same table, they also will be pointing people to eat meat or fish that they eat can not move the chopsticks.
big difference between China and the U.S., is fundamentally different cultures.
I always say, the concept of cultural determinism, the concept of decision thinking, thinking, decision behavior, and behavior determine success or failure. a person born in the background, to accept education, experience and experience, and their friends decide beside his culture and thinking. each person's culture is different, everyone's mindset is thinking, logic is not the same, the same way, each country has its own culture, have their own mindset.
Americans do not pay attention to family background, do not pay attention to places, they are pragmatic. And when the other person in China attaches great importance to introduce each other's families, parents, while the graduate school, graduate very concerned about.
short to be pioneering in American history, western development, and (when they called) barbarians (Indian) land for livestock and agricultural land, it is easy to Nevermore one, so their concept of home very light, that people. China, by contrast, has always been founded on agriculture, the implementation of monarchy, we long the system completely to the people's will, and, the corresponding system of laws and regulations is not perfect, but under the monarchy, no justice is a person given, the system will not speak perfect monarch m system will be lost once the right. so inherited thousands of years, monarchs, heads of families, parents are kept their promises. China's welfare system is not perfect, no social welfare for the elderly, Therefore, it is necessary to raise children for old age, and, otherwise, do not move old when the son does not care he would starve to death alive. Therefore, the Chinese concept of a strong family, pay attention to filial piety, virtues, filial piety. < br> Most Americans believe that the regime of Mao Zedong of China laid down with the Red Army, they generally think of Mao Zedong as kings, even the one person said. In fact, China is not the case, China has been a democratic system with a small number, but China is not communism, but socialism with Chinese characteristics, while in the last three decades, in China's reform and opening up, I hope with the world, so spending a lot of time, research and learning British and American legal system, because it is not clear how to explore the civil law or the law of the sea by; so Deng Xiaoping proposed the do not know where the stone, or stepping stones to cross the river can be, in such circumstances inevitably have to grope forward, in-depth Analysis of how the advanced systems of other countries, take longer to fill hundreds of our own weaknesses, However, no system still needs to constantly adjust before the creation.
differences with the country's own history is closely related to living habits. culture is evolved from the historical lifestyle, and culture of the United States more than 200 years, 5,000 years in China naturally quite different culture, a few examples:
pay attention to the same strain of Chinese culture, filial piety, ruler and subject, father and son, conservative, hidden, Confucian doctrine, Buddhist one; pay attention to American culture of innovation, challenge, boldly exposed the liberation of the traditional, open and uninhibited, Christ was the Messiah, believe I have eternal life, others are twisted, pagan.
Chinese people like to say ; not attitude, although pain no gain, is the idea of foreign interlinked, but the Americans in the stronger than the old concept of time, when they think the work must be focused, play when you have fun to play. Chinese people often work and rest regardless, work time chat, time to rest or chat.
work by the Chinese people, about human feelings, pay attention to intelligence, reason and law order. the United States rely on the system to work, do not speak human, emphasizing the law, Rationality and Emotion in the order.
Americans often say that , and the best selection of ads, they are the people in charge. Americans like you take the initiative to explain the problem with him, not let him think this way to explain why, while the short history of the United States because there is no burden, so the innovation is very strong, as long as You can, you will take the lead, also, when you not, they should obediently submit to the leadership of others. Chinese people will often have the I'm older than you, is your brother, I said be considered, China's , such as many reasons, and like get to the point-the point and as soon as possible, while the Chinese like to gradually build emotional, come into focus.
generally respected people But now the American vote, the majority of people tend to win, the results have become the United States 200 years after the improvement, the sound system to execute, will be no major mistakes, but in other countries, not necessarily the case. But the Americans thought that their democratic system is the best kind of democracy the world should system and to promote their values everywhere.
free compulsory education in the United States to high school, that education should be universal, it should give everyone the right to education, but in many poor countries, especially in third world countries, this situation is simply impossible. Therefore, some countries try to adopt this new American-style democracy but farther bad, because people do not read too many books, do not know how to tell right from wrong, it is easily deceived. In the one man one vote system, the politicians for votes at election time, the votes must be sweet, it would not be elected. so ; (you never want to trust a politician), because the politicians are bound to wind and say his speech, exaggerated. Of course the U.S. system of checks and balances between the two parties, there are many benefits, including the fair, and every four years, with the election, to reflection time, while the two parties take turns Hence, it is the system transparent, making slow, although sometimes extreme, but with the election, we debate, and eight substitutions due to the system, but also have the opportunity to correct their policies, rather than drug-free be cured.
differences caused by the escalation of conflict there was such a story: South Korea in order to meet the upcoming Olympic Games, even the poles are labeled questioned why the police can not eat, they have to eat for a lifetime. Police said that because the Americans to come, can not eat their friends. South Korean farmers are very well done, he said, beef cattle is my friend, they eat my friends I can not say anything, I eat the views of their friends they have, what a world? ; naive, Many of these people from different cultures together, no one can stick to their culture, so the United States is a melting pot of nationalities, who come in, regardless of color, it is important that standards should be American, or he is not American . Americans like to introduce myself, half of French ancestry, a quarter German, a quarter Italian hh short, the more complex origin, the more Americans.
their way of thinking is more simple, straightforward, So once that something is right it will go threw the implementation. All along, the United States consider themselves a Christian country, believed in the liberation of the soul, and strongly to the has identified the way to go. In the United States, moral, values are seen heavy, they will trust you first, if you find you are not to be trusted, then you can not Hunxia Qu in their circles, they will order them to believe that Americans have great respect for others, with the invisible space (Air Space). I have cited a case in point, the two countries were on a long table with food, Chinese people like to stand up and take their food, and Americans do not think that in the occupation of his room, he will ask you delivered food for him, his reason is the sanctity of their bodies and space, and the Chinese people will call you, but not hands-off, why do not they take their food? Americans The most annoying is jumping the queue, or being pushed, it is because of his Air Space was violated, once violated, he may hit you shot. The custom of like to jump the queue and push the Chinese people in the United States time to pay attention to very.
Similarly, many of the conflicts between countries for us. so for their own political ideals, he will send troops to fight all over the world, although others believe he was too much have as their global supplier factories, and to take full advantage of their formidable military power, as in the world, will continue, continue to collect They pay attention to the checks and balances. Americans think of themselves as best in the world system, but he was ignored, the system is based on the level of everyone on the basis of education, the implementation of 12-year compulsory education, but also absorbed a lot of foreign talent, only to quickly advance in the international and China or other countries is relatively weak in this area, so there is no way to reach American-style political system. the United States that the law above personal freedom, separation of powers, and be well constrained. There are many in China are relatively bound by the thought of Confucius and Mencius, ethics above the law, and ethics have been changed, in the first, so the two sides generally agree that the other is very difficult to.
because of lack of understanding of both sides, resulting in a lot of misunderstanding, misunderstanding the backlog is more prone to more friction. including many in China, now the English translation, and even some English to Chinese dictionary will go wrong, there are many, like letters spelling words in English to express a very different meaning, no life in America, would not be able to accurately explain the results repeated the baseless assertion, the long run, misleading more people, resulting in more and more Chinese one-sided understanding of the United States, has also led to more and more Chinese people do not understand the United States, the two barriers and misunderstanding heavy.
China keep up exchanges between the United States, I think the first step to let them know that the Chinese say love peace, not blind pinching out. We must take the initiative through a variety of foreign media, the correct expression, allowing Americans to know that China is actually very little from the Han Dynasty sent troops to occupy foreign land began to land his powerful but do not occupy the territories of others, only to One of the lessons of other countries will withdraw, in Zhongyuezhanzheng, China won, but not the occupation, quickly retreat to their line of defense within. China is now the land is laid into the Central Plains of the Manchus, from the history, general Han Chinese ruling regime, not meddlesome, will never occupy the Gentiles, so the Chinese occupation of Iraq will not send troops to the regime there.
This is very different from American hegemony respected; the United States in 1950, there appeared the very anti-communist McCarthyism (McCarthyism), loudly proclaimed the Communist Party government and media intrusion, anti-Communist, persecuted the Communist Party, the White Terror, now there are many Americans believe this doctrine, they are the Communist Party of China is full of no confidence from the bones . but in fact, China has not started the year on the land struggle in China, China must let Americans know that China is not only a continuation of the current year's amendments to improve its own system, is one of the few democratic system.
frustration many Americans do not understand the situation, leading to the start of China does not trust, along with many of China's information is from the United States against the Chinese in China who obtain, these people hate their own country is, and through their reflection of the information, but greatly misunderstood in China caused by the Americans. In fact, Americans should know that the Chinese also have many good ideas worthy of their reference. is Unfortunately, again, the Chinese people is not very understanding of American culture, only see the surface of things, many Chinese believe that eating McDonald's, listen to American music, watch a Hollywood blockbuster, to understand the United States which is due to communication hh poor, and so that information can not be effectively delivered. Once more we can understand, will be curbing misleading.
differences and avoid weaknesses
choice in the 21st century China and the United States could get along? I think that is possible, the composition of the two countries the United States, different regions have different values.
the so-called difference, not only between the state and national, regional and regions, even every century, are also not the same as mm13 century can be swept across Eurasia in Mongolia the 14th century the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain hh20 century, Americans were able to monopolize the world. the rise of any major country are in the middle of the century, the 21st century, we anticipate will be the century of China, China will power to power. After the WTO in the 21st century , the world's factory to China gradually concentrated to the outbreak in China has brought great opportunities to enhance all aspects of strength are.
China to be strong, to be the ancient Kam today, with his country as a warning, know ourselves, Chinese and Western, with the both progress. However, the Chinese world countries have the courage to take the initiative to explain their difficulties, and the need to create a system of checks and balances to avoid a person having the final say; but in the planning and construction, in fact, is also very useful for a party, at least In dealing with complex issues to concentrate on doing big things, when, quick fix, high efficiency.
China to compete with the United States, we must create a voice of opposition, under the present system should be established internationally recognized civil think tank, to borrow the power of think tanks to the U.S. government some pressure, so that they feel the policy of the Chinese Central People have to be accountable for, to obtain the maximum benefit, or sometimes more passive, cornered by the United States decided to do it yes or no This is even more likely to cause disputes between the two countries.
misunderstanding between the two countries is difficult to avoid, I think that if you want to remove misunderstanding, it needs at least 20 years, then both sides will be getting closer and closer, in order to achieve peace coexistence. in the next 20 years, both sides will be a lot of conflict, not even necessary to have some conflict. but in the long run, the United States aware of the need to live in peace with China, after the financial turmoil, Americans have begun to deeply understand their system is not the best system, then reflection, lessons learned. the next four decades the United States will continue strong, but the rise of China is an indisputable fact and powerful. The United States hopes the opening of China, and fear of China too loud, which is its contradictory. Yet the world can not change the trend of economic integration, China and the United States, the two countries but also to learn more about each other, learn each other more than send people to the culture, instead of stereotyping, with a colored view of things.
China and the U.S. have their own reasons for success or failure, God and history are very fair, no eternal power and no permanent sun. the U.S. is actually very depressing, do not know how to peaceful coexistence with China, as in the U.S., people who know too little trust in China and most are very anti-China, and Chinese culture and American culture is completely different, the language barrier, so they are bitter at the Chinese do not understand, because they do not understand the suspicion only give birth to so many, plus some are not satisfied with the Chinese people and to the United States due to opposition pressure over a friendly voice on China.
China's internal
United States is now more in Taiwan against China and Tibet, but now seem to be just need time to resolve. Although I was born in Taiwan, but I think Taiwan's limited resources, the future of the mainland, while China's hopes Taiwan, one must be both. Tibet is a historical problem, Greater Tibet has always been ill-disposed by the results of British colonialism, just as if the Chinese in favor of the United Kingdom of Scotland and Wales were independent from Great Britain out of the country, the United Kingdom will not be happy if isolated in China in favor of Hawaii, the United States, given its financial support to encourage Hawaii to become an independent country, the United States from bottom to top are also not happy the same. Therefore, China should be more widely disseminated, the serf system in old Tibet, and to the initiative to let the American people understand the issue of Tibet. Dalai Lama to state, but there is no fixed funding, the funding activities of the Dalai Lama, mainly from the United States, Western Europe, the Indian government and intelligence services received the support of these countries, which are not secret. the current economic situation in these countries are very bad, so the Dalai Lama should also know that he must compromise to the Chinese government, otherwise there is no way to continue. Therefore, the Chinese government in domestic affairs more or to U.S. strategy, there must be absorb a lot of overseas Chinese as its agency services; followed by the more open a number of courses so that some of the American cultural understanding of people as an important post, and from primary and secondary schools began to train more, more education, so that we understand each other's culture as soon as possible. This species to increase communication between each other, you can use a number of retired government officials as a Goodwill Ambassador of China to advance, just like President Clinton, President Carter appointed ambassador NGO non-governmental organizations as a great need for those who know both Chinese culture, people who dare to speech Ambassador to as folk, I suggest that some past leaders such as Premier Zhu Rongji and so should be reused, because they are high prestige in the eyes of foreigners, but to have kept their promises.
system is different from the two countries, cultural differences caused no way to ever truly achieve harmony, but the relationship between the two countries need to maintain certain aspects of official and unofficial two go hand in hand, the official can dispute, but the unofficial be harmonious. U.S. officials to vote, in order to balance the interests of domestic groups will often dispute, some disputes may be settled very shortly, so it is hoped that in the non-governmental exchanges to promote mutual communication.
U.S. policy through the election, and the U.S. has 50 states, while not the only big states each important, but some small states, the Chinese can buy their produce, as its economic support. You just give him the support of the economy, the people of his time in the Senate election, voters will elect them to speak for Senator These senators to state interests, will take the initiative to speak out for China. At present China has always been superstition big states, big states are always fighting for Congress and Senate members, duplication of efforts, often in vain.
properly handle the China-US relations, the Sino-US negotiations to regain the initiative, the key to win public opinion in the United States, won the public opinion, the government will heed public opinion, to smooth relations between the two countries deal with passive to active.
I sincerely hope that China and the U.S. in the 21st century, after more communication, more understanding, the two sides can achieve basic trust, which the two peoples and for world peace, are endless benefits.
Rao and others (James Jao)
2010 Thursday, on February 11 in Beijing
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