What is China Really Like?
Let’s Meet Some Real People
By
Larry Romanoff
There
is no question that China is in the news today, incessantly, it seems.
Every day, each portion of the Western media contains reports about
something to do with China – the economy, the currency, relations with
the US, trade figures, pollution, progress.
But in the Western media, especially but not exclusively in the English-speaking countries, we seem to have instinctively negative reporting. The majority of that emanates from the Jewish-owned (and some other strongly right-wing media), reflecting their determination to slander China in a “hate campaign” that has now been progressing for years, in attempts to turn the world against the “Axis of Evil” nations that include Russia, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea and others. Journalists have freely admitted that writing articles of praise or admiration of China would be “career-ending.”
Some of the reporting (and comments posted by readers) is simply uninformed, indoctrinated journalists and citizens believing their comments or opinions or observations to be accurate and true. Unfortunately, most often they are not true, but consist of misstatements or fabrications repeated from elsewhere, remnant imaginings from the Cold War era, misguided opinions based on questionable ‘facts’, and sometimes, sadly, reflecting simple bigotry and racism. To say nothing of the many published articles that are deliberately factually wrong.
It is said that if you repeat a lie five times, most people will believe it. I agree with that statement, and write this in hope that some truths will be strong enough to counter many of those repeated lies. This brief series of articles has been written, not for the bigots or racists, and not for the incurably Right-Wing extremists who need an enemy to make their lives whole. Instead, this section is for thinking people whose minds are still open and who will welcome the truth if they can recognise it as such.
Is is so easy for us to demonise a people we don’t know, to criticse things we don’t understand, to condemn practices or traditions that are different from our own. It is easy for us to mock unfamiliar customs, to believe that our way of doing things – whether government, childcare, saving and spending, marriages and funerals, or even parking cars – is the best way and the only ‘right’ way.
In this series, I want to present some facts related to real people and real lives, to try to show the Chinese people not as presented in the Western media, but as they really are. It is my belief and my hope that if we can know these people as they are, much of the suspicion and hostility in the public mind will disappear. And even more, perhaps we will be less ready to believe the rubbish that is so often reported in the media.
To begin, it seems to me that many of us have no true picture of China or its people, but only conceptions consisting of scattered fragments of information gleaned from a wide variety of sources, information which may have been accurate at one time but perhaps is now long out of date. So we will begin by trying to dispel a few of these notions.
- People
We imagine Chinese people are like this:
But They are really like this:
- Couples
We imagine Chinese Couples are like this:
But They are really like this:
- Cities
We imagine Chinese cities are like this:
But They are really like this:
- Factories
We imagine Chinese factories are like this:
But They are really like this:
- Railway Stations
We imagine China’s railway stations are like this:
But They are really like this:
- Automobiles
We imagine China’s Automobiles are like this:
But They are really like this:
- City Trains
We imagine China’s city trains are like this: (This is a photo of a New York City train, by the way.)
But They are really like this:
- China’s Taxis
We imagine China’s taxis are like this:
But They are really like this:
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Mr. Romanoff’s writing has been translated into 32 languages and his articles posted on more than 150 foreign-language news and politics websites in more than 30 countries, as well as more than 100 English language platforms. Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He is one of the contributing authors to Cynthia McKinney’s new anthology ‘When China Sneezes’. (Chapt. 2 — Dealing with Demons).
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