Please check your inbox to confirm. Improved methods of agriculture may help to account for the increase of rice production by 25.5 per cent during the last fifteen years alone. This, of course, is temporary, and a check must eventually come; but the period of that check is apparently still far off. All Rights Reserved. Herbert Spencer had noticed these limits, He had also observed, With serial organisms, so with individual organism, the evolution of superior types does not entail the extinction of all inferior uses. Sociology, vol. "9 The relation between the essentially mobile and plastic diameter of Japanese society and that assimilative genius which could successively adopt and remodel for its own peculiar needs two utterly different forms of civilization should certainly be obvious. Is her vast territory to be divided among several Western powers, as Russia desires ? I quote from Francis Galton; The average ability of the Athenian race was, on the lowest possible estimate, nearly two grades higher than our own,that is, about as much as the ability of our race is above that of the African sieges. China also boasts its own somewhat familiarly decked out cafe chain, SPR Coffee. The great cause of human suffering, and therefore of all progress in civilization, has been pressure of population but the worst, as Herbert Spencer long since pointed out, has yet to come: Though by the emigration that takes place when the pressure arrives at a certain intensity temporary relief is from time to time obtained, yet as by this process all habitable countries must become peopled, it follows that in the end the pressure, whatever it may then be, must be borne in full.12 In such an epoch the races of the Occident can only maintain their standard of living by forcing other races out of existence; and in the mere ability to live they will probably find themselves overmatched. healthy and productive dialogue we ask that all comments remain polite, free of profanity or name calling, and Report Abuse, we're all living this life together. All comments are subject to moderation by eChinacities.com staff. In the study of those great events which are the surges of contemporaneous history, that which corresponds to the currents and countercurrents on the wave surface is apt to occupy public attention much more than the deeper under motion. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-china-s-youth-find-western-culture-attractive. Elsewhere, majorities in South Korea (59%) and China (57%) also say homosexuality should not be accepted by society; 39% and 21%, respectively, say it should be accepted. Assimilative genius is not the characteristic of a people whose customs and habits have been conservatively fixed beyond the reach of change. The cost of skilled labor in the open ports has increased greatly. 1) Cafes Incredibly, tea and China can seem like an anachronistic pairing these days, as walking around any modern Chinese city you're far more likely to come across a cafe with hordes of fashionable young Chinese sipping lattes and cappuccinos. materialism is another thing that was adopted from the west, and it theres no doubt that its going to drive up crime, because not everyone can afford an iphone, so you will see people comiting crimes to buy that iphone. Report Abuse. Under our social system the condition of being able to live is to work hard, to work steadily, and to work intelligently. The intellectual power of the Jew is by no means limited to business. or sink into the slough of vice and crime which underlies all our civilization, or else find themselves reduced to a condition of misery worse than any normal experiences of savage life. The combined Western powers might resist the first shock,might overcome the first five millions of Chinese riflemen and Tartar cavalry; but behind that would come other five millions, army after army, until Europe itself was exhausted and its resources drained. 1) Traffic jams Even just a decade ago, in many Chinese cities the only noise pollution was the tinkling of thousands of bike bells, and all you had to worry about on your journey home from work was the occasional rain shower. Before censors deleted it, one offending post read quote "China, please slow down your breakneck pace. The West Indies, from which the white race is slowly but surely vanishing, furnish a strong example: the estates are passing into the hands of the former slave race. The Bad. The deep, irresistible, underlying forces that set the war in motion were from the Occident; and this unquestionable fact once recognized, all criticism of Japan from the moral standpoint become absurdly hypocritical. Nothing at present in Asia, not even Russia, could stand against it, and it might knock at the door of Europe. Modern China is no exception, but this time around it is the ubiquitous 'brand and lifestyle' consumerism of the West that is the spur. Chinese youth find spirit of volunteering. This generation of Chinese wants a voice. These are the few common things I have seen in various women in Shenzhen. In the year 1883 there were 84 manufactories using steam or hydraulic power. International necessities are rapidly breaking down old prejudices and conservatisms, while developing cosmopolite feeling. Conversely, 56 percent said they liked the overall American political system and only 4 percent disliked it. Monstrous as may seem to some the fancy the non-Christian Oriental race may be able to dominate Christendom in the future, we have to face the fact thanon-Christian and an Oriental people financially rule Western civilization to-day. China has been fairly receptive of Western culture. Nowadays, however, China is in the midst of its own obesity epidemic and the difference between Western and Eastern BMIs are becoming less notable. How little the real condition of Japan was known up to the time of the war may be inferred from the fact that a leading English journal declared ten thousand Chinese troops could easily conquer Japan because of the absence of national feeling in the latter country! But never fear, it seems this aspect of the Colonial cultural legacy in Hong Kong has been positively noted by the Chinese government. Animal cleanliness is not to be sniffed at, but the rainbow -coloured Poodles and pony-tailed Pekinese gracing China's streets look as absurd as they do miserable. . . Where Did Chinas "Harmonious Society" Go? And even though media is seen as a bad thing, it still exists and influences our lives. The peril from without will be the industrial competition of the Far East. This is his strength and in our own West, through centuries, it has been the strength of the Jews. In her present state she will have to obey these powers. China has always been a planned economy where the government played a big role in deciding how the country should be controlled. Thus the populations of the Straits Settlements and of British India steadily increase. i wish inperialists would take the same approach when dealing with muslims, and their intolerance towards islam, Jan 14, 2018 14:13 Even in our own era there have been disasters too large for the imagination to realize without difficulty. A fifth is that Japan planned the conquest of China merely to display her own military force. Unless you're a tea fanatic whose lips will only let pass liquid from a thimble-sized porcelain cup with floating leaf matter in it (this does stil exist), you'll agree that the rise of a coffee culture is a good thing not least because of all the new, clean Western toilets you now have access to for that dreaded rumble of the stomach after a strong brew. All the confusion of details and theories furnished by official reports, by local observation and feeling, by the enterprise of trained newspaper correspondents, may have special value for some future historian; but, like the ripples and the foam on the flanks of a wave, it covers from ordinary view that mightier motion which really made the event. From clothes to coffee, to food and movies, Western culture is big and getting bigger in China. i guess thats why i call it the good old days, Jan 14, 2018 14:41 Very possibly she will be long allowed to retain her independence in name, after having lost it in fact. peace ya'll ^_^, Dec 15, 2011 18:59 This rise in popularity of coffee culture can be accurately chartered by the astronomical influx of Starbucks, which has gone from a single store in 1999 to over 500 today. There are doubtless other causes for this, such as those considered by Mr. Spencer 4 but the decay of character can scarcely be the least. There are certain things they do that go unnoticed. We watch how their professional skateboarders practice, and imitate their methods. While crushing and destroying in one direction, it opens a hundred ways for escape in another. But they threatened to cancel China's hugely popular version of "The Bachelor," "If You Are the One.". But these restrictions could stifle the very creativity the country needs to develop. i also find it very disturbing how the west has affected the way chinese women dress, although its not quite as bad as hk/tw just yet. All the modern tales about the former rigidity of Japanese societyabout the conservation of habits and customs unchanged through centuriesare mostly pure fiction. Jan 14, 2018 14:24 One race, at least, has disappeared which was immensely superior, both physically and morally, to the English people of to-day. The Far-Eastern question of most importance was first offered for English sociological consideration in Dr. Pearsons wonderful volume, National Life and Character, published about three years ago.2 While reading a number of criticisms upon it, I was struck by the fact that a majority of the reviewers had failed to notice the most important portions of the argument. In contrast, exercising in one of the new relatively calm, well ventilated gym venues is an attractive and much safer alternative. Such extinctions have been comparatively recent, and for that reason undue importance may have been attached to them. He knows the value of cable codes, he charters steamers, builds factories, manages banks, profits by the depreciation or the rise of exchange, makes corners. organizes stock companies, hires steam or electricity to aid him in his manufacturing or speculating.10 As a merchant his commercial integrity is recognized by the foreign merchants, of every nation, who deal with him. The people would soon submit to any rulers able to enforce law and order, while not interfering too much in matters of ancient custom and belief. The number of men of natural gifts equal to those of the eminent men of the present day would be increased tenfold [2433 to a million, instead of 233]." Their domination now, as in the past, we find to depend upon constant supplies of fresh strengths from a colder region, and their numbers have never increased beyond an insignificant figure. But of such ideas, it was the one that most impressed the Englishman in China which least impressed the Englishman in London. The idea that the white races and their civilization might perish, in competition with a race and a civilization long regarded as semi-barbarous, needed in England some philosophical patience to examine. Or is the reality somewhere in between? Dooshbag. Various journalists on this side of the world have ventured the supposition that a Western domination of China might gradually force up the standard of Chinese living to such a degree as would leave Oriental competition no more to be dreaded than international competition at home; and they have cited the steady increase of the cost of life in Japan as a proof of the possibility. China under a Russian domination would be quite as dangerous to the Occident as under a Japanese domination. But while so remaining he knows how to utilize the modern inventions of industry, the modern facilities of communication, the new resources of commerce. Under Occidental government a civilized Oriental race not only grows, but grows rich. The fact is certainly significant that the most naturally gifted of all European races, the French, is showing itself, like the Athenian race, relatively though not normally infertile. The way they dress influences how we dress. The history of the various English, French, and Dutch colonies yields wide evidence that many weaker races, far from vanishing before the white, greatly increase in number. It lies to the North of the foothills of vindhya. Although it is true that some races, enable to bear the discipline of our civilization, have already disappeared, or are quickly disappearing,such as the Tasmanian and Australian aborigines, certain Mann peoples, and North American Indian tribes,Dr. . Japan was imagined to be a sort of miniature of China,probably because of superficial resemblances by her adoption of Chinese civilization. Last summer, many Weibo users criticized the government after a notorious high-speed train crash that killed nearly 50 people. If this seems a wild dream, consider what a Japan-governed China would be. Nothing is even tolerably certain except that China must yield to Western pressure, and that she will be industrially exploited to the uttermost, sooner or later. Momentous as all this may seem, the new political questions stirred up by the fall of China from her position as the greatest of Far-Eastern nations are really surface questions. Report Abuse. This is what ordinary people like to watch. you want to drink coffee, go buy a bottle of coffee at the supermarket. Her favorite TV programs, the social issues talk show "Day Day Up" and "Happy Camp," a variety show, were removed from prime time. ii. how is that feminist? Report Abuse, Once upon a time Chinese woman was said to be the Best Wife. Here is a selection of some of the good, the bad and the ugly ways that China is becoming more recognisably Western. You are a imitation king with a idiot's mind, and all society suffers from your silly, self-serving whims. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang. Eventually, under foreign domination, the social conditions would certainly be modified, but never so modified as to render Chinese competition less dangerous, because the standard of living would not be very materially affected by any social reforms. It is now over 42,000,000. By the way Terry, it is obvious that you came to China to find a submissive wife, and probably already have one. Although the author who declared the Western type of society to be, in many respects, "one of the most horrible that has ever existed in the worlds history" was certainly more than half right; although it is true that we see boundless luxury and self-indulgence at one end of the scale, and at the other a condition of life as cruel as that of a Roman slave, and more degraded than that of a South Sea islander;" although our civilization be one which opens the gate of fortune to aggressive cunning, and closes it as long as possible against the highest qualities of character and of intellect, nevertheless that civilization enormously multiplies the chances for energy, for talent, for practical abilities of almost every description. you look at people like richard gere and they have terrible character. At all events, the struggle to come will be one between luxurious races, accustomed to regard pleasure, at any cost, so the object of existence, and a people of hundreds of millions disciplined for thousands of years to the most untiring industry and the self-denying thrift, under conditions which would mean worse than death for our working masses,a people, in short, quite content to strive to the uttermost in exchange for the simple privilege of life. The younger generation of Chinese people are more affected by this and plan on going abroad to continue their studies in a more Western society. Watching them inspires us to think about how skateboarding should be. whoring around is NOT feminism no matter what the ClA tells you, Jan 14, 2018 14:38 Enormous famines, enormous inundations, frightful revolutions provoked by misery, have periodically thinned the number of Chinas millions. Chinese competition will have to be faced, probably, very much sooner than had been expected. She misses her shows. In the twenty-five years the available force might be five times as great, and the first couple of millions could be mobilized as quickly, let us say, as the armies of Russia. If the Japanese believe that their dynasty will yet hold universal sway, not less do Russians believe that the dominion of their Czar is to spread over the whole world. Answer: China has incorporated many parts of Western culture into their lives. Nothing like a general revolution now appears possible. Big city metros are awash with government advertisements urging residents to queue for trains and let passengers off first. China's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent on Sunday. What else can you say? But, my guess is, yours aren't even your own; you yourself are probably just spewing patriarchal, egotistical, self-centered nonsense because that is the established, albeit eroding and proven-to-be-very-socially-destructive system. It feels like a monopoly. Recent events have proved the soundness of this belief; for the war exposed a condition of official cowardice and corruption worse than had ever been imagined,a condition which could not fail to paralyze any attempt to rouse the race out of lethargy. I'd like to edit some of the grammar mistakes I made back in 2011 or would that be revisionism? This is true even of the race . profanity or name calling, and relevant to the original post and subsequent discussion. The explanation is to be sought rather in the greatly widened opportunities of life furnished by the sudden development of the country. Subscribe to Heres the Deal, our politics Apple Iphone & a Copied Iphone). The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). 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