A couple of months ago when we were with our small group, our discussions for the night got into races. I remarked then that many a time I’m really not proud to be Chinese.<\/p>\n
How’s that? OK, so the Chinese are a people who have thousands of years of history, and in ancient times were technologically more advanced than equivalent civilizations at the same time. Call it a simplistic (mis?)understanding of our ancestral and cultural history, but just the other day, a friend forwarded to me a PETA<\/a> link which describes using video and static imagery exactly what a fur farm in China does.<\/p>\n Before visiting the link, do be warned: the imagery is very<\/strong><\/span> graphic and shows some of the cruelest things people of my skin-color do to animals just so someone else can wear their pelts. The video showed a living animal methodically beaten with its head crushed, and while still alive (barely), stripped off its fur by Chinese workers.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.peta.org\/feat\/ChineseFurFarms\/index.asp<\/p>\n It’s crazy stuff and the sort of thing that makes your heart really boil. Makes you really ashamed of belonging to the same race as these guys, even if they’re several thousand kilometres north of where you’re at and saluting a different flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple of months ago when we were with our small group, our discussions for the night got into races. I remarked then that many a time I’m really not proud to be Chinese. How’s that? OK, so the Chinese<\/p>\n