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Jigong wrote in message <34F1063B.CB2EED36@rocketmail.com>...
>Mick_G wrote:
>
>> Majulah! wrote in message <34F031CF.59554C9A@yahoo.com>...
>> >
>> >
>> >Mike Cleven wrote:
>> >
>> >> Both talk.politics.tibet (where Mick was posting from) and
>> >> soc.culture.china have in their FAQs that English is a language of
>> >> discussion in the NG, if not THE language of discussion.  If you don't
>> >> like this, take it up with the organizers of the news hierarchies, or
>> >> launch your own NG......
>> >
>> >I don't see why you should tell a Chinese off when he or she discusses
>> issue
>> >related to China and the Chinese people in Chinese Language. I also
don't
>> see
>> >why it should not be discussed in Chinese language.
>> >
>> >Don't forget that Tibet is part of China, a fact recognized by more than
90
>> %
>> >of member nations of the UN.
>> >
>> >If the organizer  thinks that Chinese Language should not be used, and
that
>> it
>> >is a rule which should be followed strictly, he or she should make this
a
>> >moderated group then!
>> >
>> >
>> >* * Ideals without practice are merely dreams.* *
>>
>> Don't answer the question at all. Just show your imperialistic attitude.
If
>> I want to post my messages in Chinese it is my right, because I am
Chinese.
>> Typical.
>
>Are you saying that I should use just use English Language to communicate
and
>forget about my mother tongue ?
>
>Pls. don't try to do what you people have done to the native Americans and
the
>Blacks in America. Their languages have been wiped out completely by your
fellow
>white imperialists.


I think this ethnocentric attitude you are showing is very telling. I'll
remind you what language did you use to answer my post? Again you have not
answered the tenor of the original post. I don't care if you speak Chinese,
but if you want to be understood on a newsgroup that has in its FAQ that it
is a newsgroup where English is to be used, why Chinese? What is your
motivation? I think it is for one reason only, to be tricky. To have
something that later when someone who does not speak Chinese asks what the
post was about you can turn around and belittle them for now for not being
true scholars of China because they have not learned Chinese. This is an
attitude I've seen over and over. All of the opposing side at some point has
used someone's error in English as a sign that they are either uneducated or
lying about where they are from. This attitude is both rude and improper.

Again, if you want to post in Chinese go ahead, doesn't really bother me, as
a matter of fact I wish that foul mouthed hate monger Tom Goodman, would
post everything in Chinese, that way most of us would just ignore his
slander.

Mick