--- Scott Martens <sm at kiera.com> wrote:
> In China, so much
> seemed repressed. It was like a nation of yuppies
> and aspiring yuppies and
> poor people who accepted that the yuppies deserved
> their privileges.
Two things...bribery is the name of the game in China. Also it is amazing the entrenchment of Confucian ideals in Chinese society. Doing good for your family seems to take precedence. It's sort of like rampant individualism only it extends to the close family.
-Thomas
===== "The tradition of all the dead generations
weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"
-Karl Marx
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