Oh Rebecca

That comment was from Mydnight, who you think hasnot reacted badly, please
quote and snip appropriately.

I had never attacked him, I attacked his concept of believing that what he
think he knows is probably the correct one simply because he is in China -
reread his outburst on that one and tell me if there's another angle to it.
When it is pointed out to him that his interpretation may not be correct
because he hasn't interpret things in light of their contextual background,
he simplify the issue and made a sweeping comment that each person will have
his or her own interpretation.

Perhaps. Then let us consider Mydnight's interpretation once mo 'Zhe'
as in swamp, 'Dong' as in East, likely then, a person who grows up in the
eastern swamp - this is my paraphrase, but I don't think it is far from the
original.

Mao Zhe Dong, as I have mentioned, was the third son whose previous 2
siblings did not survive infancy. But he had two younger brothers, the
elder was named Zhe Min, 'Min' as in people. If you follow Mydnight's
interpretation, then Zhe Min should read as 'People of the swamp'. Duh?
Who would name a person singular as persons plural? In the same context,
you would think that Jiang Zhe Min, is also "people of the swamp"?

We understand your admiration of the Mydnigt's vim, but we are not talking
about his enthusiam here, we are discussing his errors in interpretation.

Danny

"Rebecca Ore" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "samarkand" > wrote:
>
>> "These cracks about Westerners never understanding, does
>> not fully apply to me, and it's quite presumptious to assume."
>
> I was in an audience at Columbia University where a scholar reported on
> his studies on cross-cultural human emotions and how people would create
> the same shapes cross-culturally when asked to move their fingers to
> indicate an emotion. This bothered one of the New Left "cultures are
> unique" people in the audience.
>
> I tend to disbelieve the idea that "nobody outside our culture would
> understand us" -- and a lot of things that people in the culture don't
> notice are fairly instantly obvious to people coming in from the outside.
>
> Whether we're inside a culture or outside, we'll be oblivious to some
> aspects of the culture that are obvious to others, insiders or outsiders.
>
> I didn't see Mydnight reacting badly; I saw other people attacking him
> on terms that seemed to be supporting some idea of the Mysterious East
> that only they knew about (and since one of those people was a
> bullshitter by his own admission), I didn't like what I was seeing.
>
> Women know these dynamics better than men <g>.