Sorry for the absence for the last two months and I apologize for my laziness but I hope you have all been well.
I’m from a hardworking country who is rapidly making life better for so many, but people in the west sees it quite differently, in many different ways too. I’m very glad that they do.
The same as they have been with issues within themselves. I can see the courage in here, the courage to be dissatisfied with what you have, and to make fun of them, and not avoiding speaking out issues that we face. I should have learnt a great deal of that during the first two years as a student majoring in English language. It is not valued any less, I have to say, by the ancient Chinese literature that we learnt in high school.
Politics is Politicians’ matter, and none of us are able to see through what plot is behind it. So disappointed can you be by the media and believe that they are all controlled. But what matters is the way it has made us to be what we are today. They shape such a large part of our thoughts, which come from what we see, what we listen, and, depending on your lifestyle, what we read. You are made, if not controlled, and thus shaped, to be what you are now. There are, unfortunately, no exceptions.
When I watch some of the Games these days, the expressions that athletes competing for different nations have on their faces tell us a lot. Generally the army from the powerful host nation would usually wear a grim look, as if they were ready for a battle, and they look somehow very much pressurized as well, I must say. By contrast I would generally imagine a smile from an athlete from a western team, who would simply see the joy and excitement in the game. They enjoy the game, just like they chose the career of an athlete, simply because they LOVE it.
This is what we can be made to me. I don’t want to me too much generalized on this. But is it fair to say, freedom, even if it is just propaganda, really makes some difference here?
Yes, I can see when the athletes from Iraq paraded in the Bird’s Nest Stadium on the spectacular Opening Ceremony of the Games, the camera (in fact BBC’s) focused on the grim look on the US President’s face, and you can challenge me on this.
