A.W.J.

China: Holiday Thoughts on Misunderstanding Data

Thank you for pointing out my discrimination for those low level school. My opinion is that those fen qing are from every school around this country, no matter how good or bad it is. But there is also something pretty interesting. When you take a look at Xiaonei.com, a chinese version facebook, you can always find: 1. Things most shared are those about ultranationalism 2. This kind of stuff are mostly writen by guys from those unknown schools. Why? Can we take this as a sample?
Also, I guess the major of student matters a lot. A physical student may have far more possibility to be a fen qing than a law student. Because some majors demand Introspection on one's view of his or her home nation.
But all of this are just details, the main question: Will Ultranationalism become main stream? I'm a pessimist and my answer is yes. This is a long trend and its hard to stop it. The reason is what we call 'the wolf's milk', in other words, the education of ultrenationalism. It's just like a monster, which you can only produce it but not terminate it. Example: When leaders try to fix the relationship between china and japan, fen qing fire on leaders. Even the central controlled media system doesnt work well on deal with the anger.
And yes, data here is often without persuasiveness. Just look at what happens nowadays: More than half of beijing people support the traffic control plan, according to the survey. it's just hilarious.
Actually the main reason i went to Modern Sky Fest yesterday is that i want to watch live performance of He Yong, that legendary chinese rock artist. And i think in fact the Modern Sky Fest is not as good as that Midi Fest, for the second one is more pure and hardcore.

China: Holiday Thoughts on Misunderstanding Data

Of course not all young people in china are Fen Qing (not Feng Qing). But I think those Fen Qing are exactly those lower class youth. The main reason, in my opinion, is that those lower class guys have nothing to proud about, in other words, they are lack of confidence. Another reason is that they dont have enough information. They dont have the abillity to get information from the rest of the world and, they dont want to. They just want to enjoy their stupid video games (Video games, i think, is more popular among those youth from poorer area. Because they dont have it when they were kids.). So they extremely honor their nation. I dont think there is an connection between the elite colleges and the ultranationalism youth. I'm studying in a so-called 'elite colleges' in Beijing and here are thousands of Fen Qing (Guys here are standing to applause for 'Grandpa P.M.' and presenting their angry about japan). And when you look at those trash colleges nearby, there are also thousands of Fen Qing. Because in every school there always be people from all class. Even PKU students will benefit from the system, now they are outsiders. And I guess guys you met were surely against the system but possibly also against traditional enemies of Fen Qi such as Japan and Korea. I think the central government is far less harmless than those guys against it. At last, the government is running the country in Market economy system, but on the other side those guys who against it want a more 'fair' or even Mao style economy system. That is surely a nightmare.

By the way, the modern sky fest is pretty cool and i gonna be there. but it disappointed me when i found there will be no foreign band. You sucker, Bjork!