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KlatooBNikto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 08:36 AM Original message |
Twenty years ago, I was on a business trip to China and one evening |
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MrModerate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 08:52 AM Response to Original message |
1. Now wait. You're saying that China is overtaking us because . . . |
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KlatooBNikto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 08:58 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Thank you for your comment.What I meant was not suppression of public |
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MrModerate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 09:08 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. I agree -- the China I know is also unlikely to become an ant farm |
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slor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 08:59 AM Response to Original message |
3. We do have a tendency to brag... |
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KlatooBNikto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 09:00 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Mandarin is the dominant dialect. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 12:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. Mandarin is the official dialect of both China and Taiwan and is |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
5. One American strong point: a legal system that protects our rights.... |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
7. And it is nowhere more evident.. |
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izzie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 09:52 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Tex. was always a place we had a good laugh about. |
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anarchy1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 02:23 PM Response to Reply #7 |
22. I'm sorry, just what is a "$500 a week milloinaire"? Am I naive? |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 04:13 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. Someone.. |
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Media_Lies_Daily (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
8. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Chinese stopped "bragging" in public.... |
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anarchy1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
9. For what it is worth: In 1984-86 I worked as a secretary for the Dept |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 12:31 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. when I was getting an advanced degree, a teacher caught 3 |
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anarchy1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 02:33 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. What state were you in. This episode took place in Texas. |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 02:44 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. this happened in Chicago |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 02:52 PM Response to Reply #9 |
25. all they have to do is rely on our stupidity; we give them all kinds |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
10. 15 yrs ago, I had lunch with a client and his father then visiting DC. |
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KlatooBNikto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 11:46 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Both Zhu Rongji and Hu Jintao impress me as solid, intelligent and |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 12:08 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. "Wish we produced leaders of that quality over here." |
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ConcernedDemocrat (33 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
15. Interesting story |
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UdoKier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
17. I lived in Japan for many years. |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
18. Eastern societies are more sexually repressed than us? |
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DulceDecorum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 01:15 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Those people know more about sex |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
19. From what I have observed, China's strengths are as follows: |
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Hamlette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-05 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
21. the devil made me do it |
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