gxnn
Really Really Experienced
- Joined
- Feb 2, 2012
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- 474
Sorry sir, if I did make you unhappy. I didn't mean to hurt or harm anybody. I am a Chinese, English is a foreign language to me and foreign culture is a subject that I like but still needs time and efforts to understand.The question was asked about where you are. I responded to look at your Avatar. It says China. I took that at face value - in American that means I believe you wrote that honestly. It has nothing to do with being naive to some point. What ever that means to your hard to understand missive that followed. The he/she reference is from another thread that alluded to your male/female sexual assignment at birth. I don't care about that. You are a person regardless and deserve respect as such.
Vietnam is a sensitive word for me, not because we lost a war there. I nearly died there. I went there out of a sense of patriotic duty not because I believed in the cause for being present there. Today, America has trade relations and American television game shows have prizes with trips to visit beautiful Vietnam and stay in a five star hotel. Not a place I'd return to even as a prize on a game show. Old memories never die - except at one's death.
Every country's populous is very proud and prejudiced to have lived in their country. Even some Chinese like China with its repressed form of government, I suppose.
One does and can live their entire lives with just one language - I get by with translations of books and have no need to read, write, or converse with a Russian. Its not a blind dependence to read an English translation. You tone implys one is diminished or lacking for not mastering another language. It is not. It is just a norm in our country. People here still get offended at hearing Spanish spoken even though there are millions of Spanish speakers here. Not so with learning to speak Russian - they have a hard time getting out of their country - seems to be something to do with having basic freedoms - like China.
I am very lucky to be here to talk to friends of other countries. Most of them are Americans, I beleive. But today Americans are people from all over the world too. Yesterday I saw Fox News, it said that every day America received thousands of illegal immigrants through the sountern border, many of whom are Chinese. In this forum, some people are very nice, they point out the grammatical errors for me as well as other cultural problems, but others are very rude, when they begin to say something, they say without any real evidence and without any hesitation that I am a propogandist and a spy or other bad names they can think of. That is why I have to fight back, however small, lonely and weak I am. After all, I am not the New York police officer who was kicked and beaten by a young boy illegally entering the city.
You have taught me a lesson, thank you. Again I apologize for any rude words said to you. You have fought for your country, from the point of view of Chinese, it is still a good behavior, because nobody can choose his own parents. A man serving his own motherland is a hero. Respect!!!