Speaking of happiness...
Coincidentally, there's a video on Yahoo news on Happiness.
Says we're the happiness people in Asia.
Hey, I thought a while ago they were saying we were the most unhappy people or something.
Anyway, the whole video's not worth watching for a few reasons:
1. It's very ang moh-nized. You start seeing everything through this very ang moh, specifically, AMERICAN, view, which is decidedly rather patronizing. What's wrong with not having a jury? I mean, not everybody thinks that any Tom, Dick and Harry on the street can rationalize well. Because really, some people just don't have a common sense. And what's wrong with hanging drug smugglers? Hey, they could be the ones leading the people you love off the straight and narrow. It's not just their own lives they're destroying. So I say deal with them hard. And chewing gum's a bad habit. Look at the Tiananmen Square. They had, have, are having, a hard time cleaning it up. The laws here are harsh, but only by your standards.
2. Did I mention it's a very patronizing view? Very top-down, superior-inferior, normal-abnormal, acceptable-weird kind of viewpoint. With the Western culture being the former, of course.
Well, I think anyone who continues to allow other people to buy guns to "protect themselves" while so many children are being killed at school and other children expressing their emotions in a very very wrong way is, well, really really weird.
It only goes to show that not every body has common sense. Instead, most ironically, common sense has just gotten even more rare.
Says we're the happiness people in Asia.
Hey, I thought a while ago they were saying we were the most unhappy people or something.
Anyway, the whole video's not worth watching for a few reasons:
1. It's very ang moh-nized. You start seeing everything through this very ang moh, specifically, AMERICAN, view, which is decidedly rather patronizing. What's wrong with not having a jury? I mean, not everybody thinks that any Tom, Dick and Harry on the street can rationalize well. Because really, some people just don't have a common sense. And what's wrong with hanging drug smugglers? Hey, they could be the ones leading the people you love off the straight and narrow. It's not just their own lives they're destroying. So I say deal with them hard. And chewing gum's a bad habit. Look at the Tiananmen Square. They had, have, are having, a hard time cleaning it up. The laws here are harsh, but only by your standards.
2. Did I mention it's a very patronizing view? Very top-down, superior-inferior, normal-abnormal, acceptable-weird kind of viewpoint. With the Western culture being the former, of course.
Well, I think anyone who continues to allow other people to buy guns to "protect themselves" while so many children are being killed at school and other children expressing their emotions in a very very wrong way is, well, really really weird.
It only goes to show that not every body has common sense. Instead, most ironically, common sense has just gotten even more rare.
posted by munchkin @ 10:35 PM
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