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Re: Asian-ness (was Re: "Whiteness" Re: Obseneties)

From:DOUGLAS KOLLER <laokou@...>
Date:Sunday, September 3, 2000, 8:48
From: "Roger Mills"

> czHANg replied:
> > I talked to my father about this. He just said it's a symptom of
their
> >whole-hearted embrace of Western _bok qwai_ materialistic values. > >"They worship the Western religion of the Machine. They are not critical > >enough to see what is of real value. A car is just a machine. Machines > always > >break down eventually... as do so-call 'Civilizations.' Look at what is > >happening to England. Bloody shame it's turning into a Third World
nation.
> >And you know that the Industrial Revolution started there, right?" > > Your father seems a very wise man, though I'm not so sure about > England.......
Nor am I sure that the term "bok qwai", if it means what I think it does, is thrilling me a whole bunch. Kou