@HFCAMPO, yes it is interesting that so many foreign festivals are celebrated in China - or at least promoted in shops by selling those items you mentioned! As a non-American, we don't even have Thanksgiving in my country, so it seems odd to see Chinese celebrating it!
It is sad that you feel the festivals have no meaning for you. Some festivals are meaningful to some people. For me it is a pity to see people 'celebrating' a festival without acknowledging or even understanding its meaning.
I have not quite got my head around the Chinese approach to festivals, as it seems to be more about how they are celebrated (eg what food to eat, with whom to eat) rather than why. Again for me, the celebration is that much richer when you know why you are celebrating. Maybe Chinese people like a celebration whatever the reason!
H.K. remains a test case for one country two systems, which people across the straits would watch closely. Recently there seems to be progress in peaceful relations across the straits. But a crackdown in Kowloon could jeopardise goodwill across the straits towards acceptance of one country two systems. Hoping for peaceful resolution!
(By the way, do we need to be careful to avoid key terms? I'd hate to see this site get blocked due to this issue, like Instagram was.)
Every person has different ways of compensating for their insecurities. An ideal situation would be that a spouse knows the other's insecurities and how to allay those. Such reassurance should avoid the behaviours that manifest the insecurities. But even so, every spouse should be able to set boundaries of what behaviours they find acceptable or not.
Sadly we often hear about those type of behaviours described by the OP. Some cultures would find that type of behaviour unacceptable, but is it somehow acceptable among certain sections of Chinese culture? It was even described here as being a 'girly girl'! Are these behaviours somehow condoned or even promoted by some people as part of being an empowered woman in China?
I think creationists also claim some scientific proof for their position (presumably making different interpretations than evolutionists), but also relying upon more than science alone. Existence does not derive or consist of intellect alone, but also of the heart and the soul. Evolutionists usually do not comprehensively address existence in this way. Thus the theories have different purposes, so try and contrast them on a scientific basis alone (even when one cannot fully disprove the other anyway) is only looking at part of the picture. Apples and oranges.
Being tongue-in-cheek I used the emotive term propaganda. If there were ulterior motives of evolutionists, it would be to claim they have through science "disproved" an alternative explanation of origins such as creationism, proponents of which do not usually purport to rely on science alone anyway. However as you agreed, even science has not proven evolutionism. Thus to claim that it has, doesn't that seem something like propaganda?
My comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek, following on from the discussion on the other thread recently about evolutionism. I was just saying, like Alien indicated above, that this is a theory not beyond doubt as to its validity, and open to revision and reinterpretation. Other forms of science are verified through experimentation and observation, but that does not apply to evolutionism, for which those methods are not available. Despite all of this, pronouncements by evolutionists seem to be treated unquestionedly as fact rather than speculation and interpretation.
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419 million year-old 'missing link' discovered in Yunnan
发布者I think creationists also claim some scientific proof for their position (presumably making different interpretations than evolutionists), but also relying upon more than science alone. Existence does not derive or consist of intellect alone, but also of the heart and the soul. Evolutionists usually do not comprehensively address existence in this way. Thus the theories have different purposes, so try and contrast them on a scientific basis alone (even when one cannot fully disprove the other anyway) is only looking at part of the picture. Apples and oranges.
419 million year-old 'missing link' discovered in Yunnan
发布者Evolutionism is not fully proven, yet many people still believe it. Belief without full proof is also faith! Just a thought.
419 million year-old 'missing link' discovered in Yunnan
发布者Yeah, maybe some are sincere, because they have already been brainwashed! :)
419 million year-old 'missing link' discovered in Yunnan
发布者Being tongue-in-cheek I used the emotive term propaganda. If there were ulterior motives of evolutionists, it would be to claim they have through science "disproved" an alternative explanation of origins such as creationism, proponents of which do not usually purport to rely on science alone anyway. However as you agreed, even science has not proven evolutionism. Thus to claim that it has, doesn't that seem something like propaganda?
419 million year-old 'missing link' discovered in Yunnan
发布者My comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek, following on from the discussion on the other thread recently about evolutionism. I was just saying, like Alien indicated above, that this is a theory not beyond doubt as to its validity, and open to revision and reinterpretation. Other forms of science are verified through experimentation and observation, but that does not apply to evolutionism, for which those methods are not available. Despite all of this, pronouncements by evolutionists seem to be treated unquestionedly as fact rather than speculation and interpretation.