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Let the "East" Talk!
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13 Aug 2007 Mon 07:39 pm |
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Quoting femme_fatal: aenigma
offff
i thought you were kidnapped by a handsome turk! |
Hehehe - maybe I was 
Quoting femme_fatal: well, nevermind! possibly got too thick skin to get offended that easily. im not a little princess, you know!  |
I know FF! That's why I never bother about posting such things - you dont take it personally and I love you for that! It was not directed solely at YOU It sounds hypocritical anyway, because I know I have posted such things before, but lately just taking criticism on board and trying to think differently 
Quoting femme_fatal:
ps.i dont promise to turn into a princess and speak "mild".
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Brrrrrrrrrrr dont ever do that 
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13 Aug 2007 Mon 08:29 pm |
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Quoting catwoman: I apologize, especially to Canli. |
Ouh! What a ballsy woman you are CW . I love such strength of character 
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13 Aug 2007 Mon 09:13 pm |
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Quoting catwoman: Quoting femme_fatal: i tell you the difference between westeners and easterners.
1. when an easterner is in the west the westerners are supposed to understand and respect the customs and tolerate the most of the actions (including the women discrimination) of the easterner.
2. when an westerner is in the east, he/she is expected to understand and respect the customs and agree with all the actions seen in local area even it may seem rude or unfair.
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To be fair, I think that this is true. Westerners don't have high expectations from others, they even tolerate different beliefs and types of behavior for the sake of being tolerant.
On the other hand, Easterners (very vague term by the way) expect everybody to tiptoe around them, so to say. I think that it's kind of double faced, because if they expect westerners to respect their social values when westerners visit their countries, they should also respect the western social values when they go there.
It's a generalization of course, not everybody is like this, but there's certainly enough people who think this way to make it significant. |
I never saw femme's earlier posts that were deleted so I cannot comment on them but like catwoman I think her above post paints a fairly accurate picture of the present situation.
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13 Aug 2007 Mon 09:24 pm |
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 bydand, cant recognize you! is it really you?
and of course, glad to hear someone's honest opinion.
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13 Aug 2007 Mon 09:55 pm |
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Quoting femme_fatal: bydand, cant recognize you! is it really you?
and of course, glad to hear someone's honest opinion. |
Femme.... you may wanna notice that life is NOT black&white!
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13 Aug 2007 Mon 10:03 pm |
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Quoting catwoman: Quoting femme_fatal: bydand, cant recognize you! is it really you?
and of course, glad to hear someone's honest opinion. |
Femme.... you may wanna notice that life is NOT black&white! |
thats true! and either not very colorfull!
how can you be smarter than me? 
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14 Aug 2007 Tue 09:43 am |
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I want you to know more about my far away country :
CHILE
I am from Chile (Şili) in Latin America.
I'd say chileans are very warm people , with a very sharp sense of humor, we love to tease and make jokes even about bad events!
Men are freak about football and most women work outside and have High Education (It wasnt like that 20 years ago) It is still a "Macho Culture" but less than fefore.
We are 16,000,000 inhabitants. The capital is Santiago and 6,000,000 people live here (yes, overpopulation problem)
Most people could think we have hot weather, big mistake, we are not a "tropical country" , in summers the max. temperature rises up to 36 degrees but never more!
Unlike Brazilians , we are a bit shy , our culture is not so "colourful" like Caribbean or central american but we share some characteristics with other latin countries :
People still are family-oriented here although getting married is not the priority for Chilean Women around my age (23) they want to finish their studies and find a good job...In the past, only women cooked and did the homeworks now almost every young men KNOWS how to cook and helps with the housework , rise their babies etc which was unthinkable decades ago!
We are the only country in Machista latin america that has A FEMALE president! her name is Michelle Bachellet which shows that people are open-minded now...especially men .
Chilean People loves TO EAT! love red meat , barbacues , and chinese , italian and fast food are very popular ! Eating is a very important thing in Chile's social life , it really brings people together ! Chilean people likes to share with family a lot and Christmas and New year are very important.
We are also a peaceful land! the last war we had was in 1879 , our economy is the 3rd most powerful of the region after Brazil and Mexico.
We have many immigrants , especially Peruvians , Ecuadorian, Arabs , Germans and Croatians ...
I hope one day you can visit the homeland of the Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda...
Şili'den selamlar!
Dilara.
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14 Aug 2007 Tue 12:22 pm |
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Aww Gracias Dilara
It sounds wonderful. Chile has always fascinated me since I was a child and would stare at its coastline in the atlas in awe! I would love to visit some day together with Easter Island (Rapa Nui), which has great botanic significance.
Is Chile not "West" though?....
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14 Aug 2007 Tue 08:14 pm |
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I knew it!!! Someone will break the ice.
I felt this thread was being suffocated. I thought of insisting on posting something more about the "East" that I am located in, despite the off-topic criticisms... Well, still need a little more stamina to do this. But may I try?
Food. I want to talk about the culture of eating. Not what we eat or how we cook it. But the philosophy of eating.
For us Chinese, we eat "fresh". Not the same as eating sashimi like the Japanese. We choose to eat everything fresh, from the land, from the sea or from the farm, whenever it is possible.
Tourists will find it fasinating when seeing the fish tanks in restaurants, which you can pick any fish, lobsters, crabs, etc and ask the kitchen staff to prepare your seafood meal. In all wet markets, you will see live sea creatures for selling, live poultries, ooops not live cows or pigs or sheep, but freshly butchered from central butchery. Vegetables are freshly picked from fields within one day before being transported. Frozen meat and food serve as alternatives only.
Want to try the fresh taste of food? Come and enjoy our culture of eating. 
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...I must admit that seeing those poor fish crammed tight into tanks, and lobsters with their claws tied together suffering for days while they wait for some human to decide if they want to eat it, is a little bit too much for me 
