In Response…
This post is in response to comments left by "Anonymous" on the post A Clear BBC Bias .
A Little Background
My previous post addresses the BBC’s obvious bias on Beijing/China’s pollution issue. The following exchanges occured:
# Anonymous | July 15th, 2008 at 3:18 pm eI’m pretty sure those beautiful blue sky are the products of photoshop and such! Beijing is just as dusty and full of pollution as the BBC picture has shown for the majority of times!!! I’d like to hear what you have to say to this.
# Eastwood | July 15th, 2008 at 6:49 pm eWow Anonymous, your comment is so biased and full of bull crap! Just look at my latest post and the photo of myself in front of Tiananmen. I’m in Beijing right now, and out of the 3 days that I stayed, we’ve had 2 beautiful, blue-skied, cloudless days. Your ignorance truly amazes me. But hey, why am I complaining? There are, after all, people who are glued to CNN and Fox all day and people who would vote bush. You know what? Stay in your bubble. Ignorance is bliss, my friend.
# Anonymous | July 17th, 2008 at 10:34 am eWell, Eastwood, at least I was polite in my argument…If you want to talk about ignorance, then I’d argue that a majority of the Chinese population is the true group of ignorant people — they are content with being fooled by the propaganda the Chinese government puts out, and ignore the real issues lying beneath all the façade! These ignorant people (I sincerely hope you are not one of them, ’cause that would just be VERY unfortunate) do not see how corrupted the situation in China is, nor do they want to spend time reading about voices from different resources… But hey, I don’t blame them, after all, the Chinese government is super good at censoring foreign countries’ news report.
# Anonymous | July 17th, 2008 at 10:38 am eP.S. Too bad I’ve actually been to Beijing and other few cities in China a few times. The reality speaks louder than words, my friend.
My Turn
Anonymous, your ignorance was made obvious as a direct result of your comment "I’m pretty sure those beautiful blue sky are the products of photoshop and such". It may or may not necessarily address your "intellectual merit" (though I did mean to poke a stab here and there 
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Why not? Let’s talk about ignorance. In my opinion, ignorance is the inability to think about and look at things with an objective and open mind. You say that the photos of Beijing’s blue skies are "the products of photoshop and such". Com’on now… haha… that’s waaaay too narrow-sighted and biased. What an extremist comment? You’re right, the reality does speak louder than words. Just look at my photos in front of Tiananmen and the Bird’s Nest. What do you have to say about that? Ohh.. let me guess… I’m a part of a Chinese state-sponsored conspiracy… photoshopping the skies blue!
(No offense of anything, but you do remind me of Bush and his fellow neo-con war-mongers who support the "liberation" — <– sarcasm! aka… booooom! baaam! kabum!! — of Iraq and the rest of the world. Oh.. don’t we all love the American knights in shining armour who seek to protect the freedom of mankind! <— MAJOR SARCASM! yeah I can kinda imagine you chanting up "4 more years!" or "support our troops!"… sigh… no insult meant though; people make different choices 
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Anyway… where was I? Right. Here is comes. You say that "Beijing is just as dusty and full of pollution as the BBC picture has shown for the majority of times" (with three exclamation marks!!!), yet, you also say that you’ve been to "Beijing and other few cities in China a few times". Well Mister Anonymous! I guess, then, you truly represent the Chinese population of 1.3 billion. After all, you have been to Beijing and other few cities in China a few times. Yes… who’s to argue with you? We can either take your word for it — someone who’s possibly been to Beijing a few times" or… (<– ahhhh… here’s a rehtorical question at work 
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Hey, I’m not here to argue that there isn’t a pollution problem in China — that’d simply be ignorant of me. My previous post clearly states that I strongly dislike the BBC’s bias, having chosen that particular photo with the particular captions (out of all the stunning photos of the Beijing stadium) just to especially highlight the pollution problem. I’m not saying that there isn’t a pollution problem, but I am saying that I disagree with the ridiculous bias. Look, your bias is simply laughable (photoshop? bwahahhaah…)
You wanna talk politics? Let’s talk politics.
You blatantly accuse the "majority of the Chinese population" of being ignorant. You say that we are "content" at being "fooled" by Chinese gov’t propaganda. On what grounds are your statements based? Look, hate to break this to you buddy, but it appears that you know not a whole lot (if anything?) about the Chinese culture and the Chinese way of things. There’s really not a huge point in me trying to give you a Chinese history lecture. Go read a few books and browse around Wikipedia. Then read this post by the BBC’s James Reynolds — National Sentiment . There’s not a lot that I can tell you, but I can tell you this: your suggestion that 1.3 billion Chinese people are under the "evil facade" of Chinese propaganda is… naive. China, as a nation, is constantly progressing forward. The Chinese people, as an unity, is constantly advancing at faster paces (I know, I know, the cheese… ). With the national economy leaping ever-faster, and China, as nation, becoming increasingly stronger, the Chinese people are finally beginning to feel — after hundreds of years of foreign opression — pride: pride in China, finally becoming an emerging global power, and pride in ourselves, being who we are, and doing what we do.
Well… long story short, let me put it this way: you know cow feces (there, better? ) about China. Yes, cow feces. Did I put it nicely enough?
Hey, I am reading the BBC News and sipping on a mango smoothy here in a Starbucks, Xi Dan (downtown… lights, fancy pazzazz!) Beijing. Gotta run. I’m getting a kick outta this discussion. Cheers!
19.Jul.08 
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