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Whereas Russia and Anglo-Saxon countries top suicide statistics, China has among the lowest suicide rates in the world.
"On the basis of data gathered in 1999, the government estimated an overall rate of 13.9 per 100,000 people, much lower than the rate in other East Asian countries: Japan (18.5) and South Korea (28.9).
---A 2014 study reported that China's suicide rate has dropped significantly, among the lowest levels in the world. An average annual rate of about 9.8 people out of every 100,000 died by suicide as of 2009 to 2011.
Family conflicts are the number one cause of suicide in China, other common causes include poverty, and disease of the body and mind."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_China
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I wonder if Confucianism (as opposed to Western individualism) is the biggest protective factor.
In Japan, Confucianism was adopted to fit a work-oriented-honor culture, which might explain their higher suicide rates.
"On the basis of data gathered in 1999, the government estimated an overall rate of 13.9 per 100,000 people, much lower than the rate in other East Asian countries: Japan (18.5) and South Korea (28.9).
---A 2014 study reported that China's suicide rate has dropped significantly, among the lowest levels in the world. An average annual rate of about 9.8 people out of every 100,000 died by suicide as of 2009 to 2011.
Family conflicts are the number one cause of suicide in China, other common causes include poverty, and disease of the body and mind."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_China
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I wonder if Confucianism (as opposed to Western individualism) is the biggest protective factor.
In Japan, Confucianism was adopted to fit a work-oriented-honor culture, which might explain their higher suicide rates.
They know how to build a fucking wall.
It didn't keep the Mongols out though, did it?
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It helped....a lot.
And that's why it upsets all the anti-American types who don't think the people of the USA have any right to decide who/what comes into the USA.
Sends those open border lefties straight to the fuckin' moon.
Read a history book you young uninformed person.
And that's why it upsets all the anti-American types who don't think the people of the USA have any right to decide who/what comes into the USA.
Sends those open border lefties straight to the fuckin' moon.
I don't care how you secure your border, no matter to me. Your the one paying the cost of it.
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The make really nice plates.
China is the term loosely applied to porcelain ware pieces. Generally, these items are table ware and decorative ware. The name china was applied to these items for two reasons: because China is their land of origin and because for centuries only China could produce these items in the quality and quantity that people desired. Today, England is center of production of fine china.
https://classroom.synonym.com/history-fine-china-6537426.html
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To be fair the wall as we know it today wasn't really constructed until the Ming Dynasty some 200 years or so after the Mongol invasion and at the time of that invasion most of China's defenders were on its southern borders and in the southern part of the country.
Yeah, it didn't occur to me. The proudest gastronomy feature of Italy, stolen by Marco Polo from China.
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I have, that's how I know it was quite useful in directing the flow of people, be they nomadic tribes or hostile invaders.
It also did a good job of slowing both down when they decided to take it on.
Yes, The Great Wall (which, besides defense, "allowing the imposition of duties on goods transported along the Silk Road, regulation or encouragement of trade"
and The Grand Canal (which linked the North and South, economically)
are listed among the top mammouth-wonders of the world.
I wonder where The Belt and Road Initiative will be placed.
and The Grand Canal (which linked the North and South, economically)
are listed among the top mammouth-wonders of the world.
I wonder where The Belt and Road Initiative will be placed.
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Some of their coins have square holes in the middle. They have wild Panda's, which are real bears not stuffed toys. The Shaolin Monastery is in China and you can actually go there to study martial arts like Tai Chi from the monks and Masters there.
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The Berlin Wall did a wonderful job keeping freedom out of East Berlin for almost 50 years.
Unlike the Trumpwall, it didn't blow over in the wind, but times are different now. Optics are everything.
Hitler's Atlantic Wall didn't do so hot a job of keeping invaders out of France.
Castle walls rapidly declined in effectiveness after the invention of trebuchets and were rendered largely obsolete by the widespread adoption of gunpowder. But they always maintained their value as tourist attractions. Optics are everything.
Unlike the Trumpwall, it didn't blow over in the wind, but times are different now. Optics are everything.
Hitler's Atlantic Wall didn't do so hot a job of keeping invaders out of France.
Castle walls rapidly declined in effectiveness after the invention of trebuchets and were rendered largely obsolete by the widespread adoption of gunpowder. But they always maintained their value as tourist attractions. Optics are everything.
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Or Hadrian's wall.
But unlike the Great Chinese Wall (which had a double function: boundaries and commerce), all the rest were just for marking boundaries.
One can't beat the Chinese when it comes to practicality on a large scale.
Well, but for Amazonn and other Western corporatuons, but those aren't manufacturing.
But unlike the Great Chinese Wall (which had a double function: boundaries and commerce), all the rest were just for marking boundaries.
The quantity of tea in China is used as a benchmark for all things large.
One can't beat the Chinese when it comes to practicality on a large scale.
Well, but for Amazonn and other Western corporatuons, but those aren't manufacturing.
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I am a Chinese based in China, not in the US or elsewhere, and I am very happy to read your discussion, especially when what we can do is only to stay at home because most of the residential quarters have been guarded to prevent the undue human-to-human transmission of the novel conoravirus.
China is good at invention, as you can see the Four Great Inventions, namely, compass, paper, printing and gun powder, all of which have made great contribution to developing human civilization.
China is good at combining the advantages of other peoples. Many of these peoples have tried very hard to conquer the Chinese and they did seem to succceed externally, but in reality they have been changed into Chinese unknowingly.
In today's globalization, China is also greatly influenced by the American cultures, and the US began its influence on China since 1900, a very magical year in history (I will talk about that next time) by offering large sum of cash to have young Chinese students to receive education in the US. And the money they offered was actually the compensation made by Chinese government in their lost war with the US and other Western countries including Japan and Russia. Today, even a Chinese baby can speak a few words of English like bye-bye, and they do not have any idea of what "Zaijian" means (meaning see you again in Chinese). They also enjoy the foods of KFC and MacDonald and the movies of Hollywood and TV dramas of BBC,HBO or Netflix. A lot of young people who have overseas study or working experience work without pay to translate the lines of American and British movies and TVs into Chinese to help their peers learn about the wonderful outside world.
Chinese people are very hard-working, knowing no days-off, especially when they work outside China. Most of the people of the countries where they work complain that they have stolen their work opportunities. And they can even change the social climate of the places they stay in. As I know, there are many pregnant women who moved to an American town and completely changed the social order there. Even back at home, people living in the northeast part travel to other parts of the country and receive bad reputation for their bad behaviors.
Lying is also part of the Chinese culture. Perhaps they have been poor for too long and they do not like others to look down on them. A report made to the boss most often than not contains only good news and things that may please the boss. In 1910s, President Yuen Shikai of Republic of China was deceived by his men with a newspaper custom made to him only, which told him that his fellow countrymen all welcomed him to restore the emperor system in the country and liked him to serve as the emperor, but in reality most of the countries had risen in rebellion and the mutiny armies had reached the city gate of Beijing. Examples in recent history can also be found, but I will not tell you here due to many unspeakable but known reasons.
China is good at invention, as you can see the Four Great Inventions, namely, compass, paper, printing and gun powder, all of which have made great contribution to developing human civilization.
China is good at combining the advantages of other peoples. Many of these peoples have tried very hard to conquer the Chinese and they did seem to succceed externally, but in reality they have been changed into Chinese unknowingly.
In today's globalization, China is also greatly influenced by the American cultures, and the US began its influence on China since 1900, a very magical year in history (I will talk about that next time) by offering large sum of cash to have young Chinese students to receive education in the US. And the money they offered was actually the compensation made by Chinese government in their lost war with the US and other Western countries including Japan and Russia. Today, even a Chinese baby can speak a few words of English like bye-bye, and they do not have any idea of what "Zaijian" means (meaning see you again in Chinese). They also enjoy the foods of KFC and MacDonald and the movies of Hollywood and TV dramas of BBC,HBO or Netflix. A lot of young people who have overseas study or working experience work without pay to translate the lines of American and British movies and TVs into Chinese to help their peers learn about the wonderful outside world.
Chinese people are very hard-working, knowing no days-off, especially when they work outside China. Most of the people of the countries where they work complain that they have stolen their work opportunities. And they can even change the social climate of the places they stay in. As I know, there are many pregnant women who moved to an American town and completely changed the social order there. Even back at home, people living in the northeast part travel to other parts of the country and receive bad reputation for their bad behaviors.
Lying is also part of the Chinese culture. Perhaps they have been poor for too long and they do not like others to look down on them. A report made to the boss most often than not contains only good news and things that may please the boss. In 1910s, President Yuen Shikai of Republic of China was deceived by his men with a newspaper custom made to him only, which told him that his fellow countrymen all welcomed him to restore the emperor system in the country and liked him to serve as the emperor, but in reality most of the countries had risen in rebellion and the mutiny armies had reached the city gate of Beijing. Examples in recent history can also be found, but I will not tell you here due to many unspeakable but known reasons.
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Gosh, I'm so excited that you posted in this thread.
I would like to ask you more about the things that I highlighted above, as well as your views about Chinese versus Japanese versus Western philosophies and socioeconomic structuring of their societies.
-- But I might do it later on, I'll let people who know more have a go first.
So you're actually quarantined, in a sense in your own home?
and we have a winner....*chuckles*
