Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing
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China Fact #4861: Nothing says high fashion like the military gear of the imperialist Western superpower that persistently interferes into your nation’s internal affairs!
In America, young people wear Che Guevara and communist red star shirts and think they’re cool. What do the young people in Asia wear? Surprisingly often, U.S. military clothing and accessories.
I see it everywhere.
A vender at the Great Wall wears a U.S. Army patch on her jacket. A girl at Hangzhou’s Lingyin Temple sports an LAPD shirt. A store in a local shopping mall displays CIA accessories. A Japanese student in the dorm lobby struts around in a SWAT t-shirt. A Chinese student in Xiaoshan wears a U.S. Navy sweatshirt. The standard grey “ARMY” shirt turns up again and again.
I thought the world was supposed to hate us, but apparently fashion supersedes that.
They have digicamo over there now? I didn’t see that when i was over there. The fake market in Shanghai has TONS of army stuff. Initially, I was shocked as well.
↓ Quote | Posted November 2, 2006, 3:04 amThe only “digicamo” (i.e. ACU pattern) I’ve seen was on those canteens. Everything else, including the public works laborers, is still in the retro style.
↓ Quote | Posted November 2, 2006, 9:16 amIronically, I guess probably these people don’t really understand whet they are wearing. You’d better interview or ask them “do you understanding the real meaning of your tshirt”, i bet most of them would say “no”.
↓ Quote | Posted November 2, 2006, 12:43 pmI don’t mean that they don’t understand English, i mean they don’t realise the real meaning under these English words.
That’s probably true to an extent, but I think most young Chinese understand “CIA” or at least “U.S.”
↓ Quote | Posted November 2, 2006, 4:31 pmlisten. we know better about u than you do about us. i’d like to chanllege you on various topics varing from american history ,literature to the damita american politics. but you know little about us
↓ Quote | Posted November 4, 2006, 12:35 pmthe more i know about the US, the more revulsion i harbour against u. the American can do nothing useful to the whole world ,but to kill ,slaughter and damage the mother nature.
you guys nonsensing here!!
do you know who emerson is?who eliot is?
Road, I don’t think you realize that this post, like most of my posts, is not entirely serious. Obviously the logos young people put on their shirts here, like in the U.S., do not have any significant meaning. It’s just stupid, youthful fashion.
America can do nothing useful? Then why are so many Chinese learning America’s language? Why are you wearing our fashion styles? Why are you buying our food and our cultural products? Why are using our medicines and our technological inventions? Why emulate so many “useless” things from America?
Yes, we are damaging mother nature. I will not deny that, and I am not proud of it, but if you are Chinese, you are in bad position to criticize this. Tell me, why is it forbidden to make things such as telephone polls from wood anymore? Why are all the pandas and the tigers in China disappearing? Why, when I go to the top of Hangzhou’s Northern Peak and look toward the city, can I not see the city? Why am I told by Chinese not to drink the water that comes from my faucet?
If you haven’t already, I would challenge you to come to the U.S. before making your decision about our country. None of the Chinese I have met in America have expressed anything near the kind of revulsion you have, on the contrary, many have developed a strong admiration for this country. If you can come experience America with an open mind and still find that you hate us, fine, but don’t say that you can render a fair decision about our nation without studying with American students, living with an American family, or working with American coworkers in our nation.
↓ Quote | Posted November 5, 2006, 9:52 amRoad, I’m a Chinese. To be fair, I want to tell you that you do have misunderstandings about what America really looks like. Don’t just judge this country from TV, movie or news. You need to experience real American life. Every country has its own problems. No singal country is perfect.
↓ Quote | Posted November 5, 2006, 12:57 pmDo you know how many American families are adopting Chinese orphans? Do you know how many people are taking care of foreign students from around the world? Do you know how people are truely helping each other here?…
I had misunderstandings about this country before i came here. I think most of them are from TV, movie, or news. I like one sentence my professor told me “You gotta experience.”
I love my country, from my heart, from my soul.
But i want to tell you than I love the people here too!
Open your mind, open your heart, and you will know the truth.
You probably don’t agree on what i said, but just want to let you know that make your conclusion after EXPERIENCE.
Ralph Waldo Emerson? T.S. Elliot? Well, you could get a lot more specific on Elliots– there are a lot of Elliots in American culture.
I’m actually a big fan of Emerson myself, as I really dig that transcendentalist stuff.
Actually, I harbor nothing against you what so ever. But, if per chance, you want to challange me to any facet of American literature, culture, geography, on any aspect of the world inside or outside our own– then I would accept your challange.
Meanwhile, give us a chance before you listen to what the rest of the world “thinks” we are. There is a *huge* difference between the worthless foreign policy we have in place right now and how an actual honest hearted American actually lives and thinks.
↓ Quote | Posted November 6, 2006, 11:47 amPhentermine….
Phentermine….
↓ Quote | Posted March 12, 2007, 11:28 pm