I read here carefully on aw's blog "Being a Chinese, something I want to say" and relevant comments. I also recalled many things I experienced since 1950s in last century. I don't want to talk too much on Tibet issue, since many people have got to know some situation there from whatever points of view. I just want to say my idea as follows:
1, Today's China is no longer a sealed country where we generation could only know news from the official propaganda, and got some misunderstanding onto the other country in the world. It is very good now that Chinese people can know the world by their own efforts and then make the private comparing with China and other country. It is just a proof that there could be some foreigners coming to ifgogo to read and comment. But this opening situation has just lasted 30 years. Both Chinese people and the people in other countries need time to know each other well. So, we should be patient.
2, Other countries from the world now can also get more opportunities to come to China to see a real China. So, they say more and more comments on this or that. But I don't think all the western reporters could have stayed in China for quite a long time or have met quite a more local people and talk with them, so that their news might be here or there some misunderstanding on a real and whole China. Based on this assumed idea, I think that we Chinese also need to be patient. However, we never allow those malicious gossip as well as even some attack with evil intention!!
3, It is always true that there is some gap between the people and its government, no matter how badly the government wants to be on behalf of its people or how badly the people trust its government. Why so? It is due to the different position where their points of view come from. I was a common worker when I was 20 and just after 2 years' living in countryside as a "educated youth". Then in 20 years, I became a middle-level leader in the provincial government. I had gone through from root to quite higher lever of the leadership, but I resigned position and quit the rank and turn to a root company again. Why? I got to know there were many things I could not change and could not even do. I'd better to choose a lower but solid job and contribute my love and energy to my motherland. In the last 15 years, I have done a lot of concrete work and feel happy everyday. So, I quite agree with aw that we should firstly do our current job well and devote to the construction of the New China.
4, Patriotism is a good thing, but need to be understood and showed properly. We Chinese should know that China is one of the largest countries of the world with its great population, but it is still being developed and its economical support doesn't match the role it wants playing. So, China also needs time to boom its economy so that to earn more rights on the world matters. I had a long call with my son who went to Canberra from Sydney to join the torch relay in Australia. He was excited at the site with more than 10000 Chinese people there, holding the National Flag, singing the National Anthem. He said just at that moment he could realize why the oversea Chinese looked so crazy at CCTV on the CNY Evening Party. You could not know such patriotic feelings unless you were out of China! Son also told me there was really some people holding Tibet flags and protesting there, but son and other Chinese just simply ignored them and focused on protecting the torch. Son said: "They were minority only, if we paid no attention to them, how could their protest work? We Chinese should be rational patriots. Reality is reality after all! Any Westerner who goes to see the current real Tibet and compare it with the old one, he can get his right answer!" I agree with my son totally!
