This article on The Rape of Nanking really moved me. Especially this line near the end...
Almost every Chinese-American family has had some kind of experience with World War II, in many cases, dead relatives.
Ok, I am an Irish-born Chinese, but this still holds true for many oversea born Chinese people.
My dad would tell us stories about what happened to our family a generation ago. We did loose family members during that period. In fact, my eldest uncle was part of a group trying to get out of China in that time, and it was frightening to hear about it, to say the least. He was 2 or 3 years old at the time. He had a scar on his foot from that time from stepping on a branch while they are trying to sneak around the Japanese occupiers. He was nearly killed as the group was afraid they were going to be found out if my uncle even whimpered. But my uncle survived, and did not even utter a sound. It's very hard to imagine this in the times we live in. Many male relatives in my family were also soldiers (has been for many generations until my dad's generation, it was my grandma's wish, so we don't loose anymore members). But that article about Nanking really brings home some reality of what went on. I am not sure if I am prepared to read the book. But as the author pointed out, so few know about it, and mistakes should not be forgotten. This is not meant to cause hatred, but to realise the truth.
This is part of history, it should not be ignored. Human history has alway being cruel, but let's not forget. Lessons can be learnt.
Finally got it up... backed up, ran a few commands and upgraded the board to the newest release. And hey presto! ;) Now folks can chat again .
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Saw this article in the Sunday Times about someone's research into racism in Ireland, and it shows that Chinese are somehat accepted. That is good, at least it's still reflect us positively. I don't understand why though, most immigrants of other races come here and work hard, no matter what colour. It's only a small percentage that cause problems (or "lazy"). Everyone should get a chance to earn their living, after all, many of us working pay taxes.
From March 7th, the BBC will be doing a special coverage of China for a week. I read this one article from one of the links about from restaurants to tycoons , and it shows alot of similarities to the Chinese over here in Ireland (I don't know how many tycoons there are here though, there are a few). But it sure is changing for us over here as well. Many people start diversifying from catering and move on to other areas. I wonder if there are any local Chinese venture capitalists here...
Saw this in the Indo today, Football an English game? The Chinese might just question that and thought that it was quite interesting that there is a "Irish-Chinese Arts, Cultural & Shaolin Academy"! Anyone heard of it before? Well, google-searching did not come up with anything. But there is suppose to be a match between China and Ireland, which is FAI's 'One Game, One Association''One Game, One Association' masterplan. Check out the story. (And it's free registration.)
