I wrote this piece many years back. It is good to revisit this post and look at the fate of the Chinese people then under the oppression of the white men and how they fought back to destroy this white men's myth that the Chinese were stupid and dull people, only fit to be cooks and laundry men. This lie was enforced for centuries by the white men through their media and state policies to keep the Chinaman down and out.
Just keep suppressing them, deprive them of the opportunity to be educated and rise in the world of science and technology. Just keep them dumb and tell the world that the Chinese are dumb. The Chinese Civilisation and China were suppressed and oppressed for nearly a century to the point of becoming irrelevant, poor, illiterate, ignorant, loss of confidence and pride, in a world controlled and ruled by the white men.
Look at what China is today, what China has achieved in a short 50 years after breaking free from the clutches of the white men. The Chinese today have stood up through sheer hard work and tenacity to be their true self, a people that is as good as anyone in the world, compete and be better than the white men in every field of science and technology. No more the oppressed Civilisation by the white men. The Chinese people will no longer be the joke of the white men, to be despised by the white men as a people with no talent.
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The
world was turned into an ocean of colonies of subject people during the
few centuries of ‘friendly’ European conquest. The Africans were turned
into slaves, the natives of both Americas massacred. The ancient
civilization of China was crippled and dismantled into pieces. After the
Western powers brought down the decadent Qing Dynasty with the might of
modern firearms, the Chinese civilization was turned into a pariah race
of nothingness by the invaders in their country. The foreigners did not
bring anything good but oppression, bullying and raiding China ’s
wealth and dignity by all kinds of deceptive means, and by the barrel of
the gun. The Japanese joined in and even thought of conquering and
ruling the whole of China as their colony.
There
was a moment of salvation when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and
declared war on the Western power. China and its peasant soldiers were
needed to open another front to sap the fighting power and resources of
the Japanese. A large part of the Japanese Imperial Army was held down
in China by the peasant soldiers. History would not be the same if the
Japanese could run through China without resistance and conquer the
whole of Asia.
After
the war there was a brief moment of equality for China as a key member
of the Allied Forces that fought against the Japanese. Chiang Kai Shek
was seated with the Allied leaders like Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt
in Potsdam and Cairo to divide the world among the victorious Allied
Powers. China was lucky to have its lost territories back. Chiang was
more like a flower vase, inconsequential, and would not be deserving of
any war loot. His presence among the leaders of the big powers was a
consolation that gave China a little recognition as a big nation.
This
little moment of dignity did not last long when Mao Zedong defeated
Chiang and China adopted communism as a state ideology. This turn of
event led to a renewed and concerted Western effort to brand and condemn
the Chinese civilization as peasants, rogues, dumb, uncivilized,
aggressive and the pariahs of the human race, a good for nothing race
that was lack of talent, unproductive and unimaginative, and unfit to
join the advanced nations of the West. This was the hopeless China
painted by the West. They kept repeating the misinformation daily in all
western media, like they are doing to North Korea today that the whole
world simply believed so. Chinese are useless, Chinese are lame, Chinese
are bad.
Cold
Wars, containment policies, encirclement, depriving China of its
rightful seat in the UN, blocking China from joining international
organizations like the WTO and the Groupings of rich nations, were
history now. In the last 40 odd years, China came storming back on its
own despite all the sanctions and barriers and threats against its rise
as a nation and the Chinese people as a civilization, old, ancient, but
not useless and remote of talents.
Throughout
the two hundred years of Western oppression and suppression, the
Chinese civilization was not allowed to surface, no opportunity to break
out and be the equals of other nations. The Chinese civilization was
down and out, the Chinese in despair. Many Chinese had doubts in
themselves, and were ashamed to be Chinese. The Westerners reinforced
this belief by sneering at them, contributing negative literature
furiously to debase the Chinese, discriminated against them in
practically every human endeavour and industry. In the USA there were
racist laws forbidding the Chinese from higher skill jobs. The image and
perception of useless and untalented Chinese became a self fulfilling
prophecy. The Chinese civilization was a joke, a condemned race that was
lacking in industry and innovation.
On
its own, slowly and steadily the Chinese rebuilt their nation and their
civilization, with little foreign talents and assistance, China has
overtaken Japan and is closing in on the US as the number Two world
power, economically and militarily. They have proven that they could
match the West in every field of industry. The oppression and
suppression of a civilization have failed, and a revitalized China has
assumed its rightful place as a proud nation among nations. The Chinese
civilization is no longer to be spitted at, to be kicked around by the
Western powers or by teeny weeny little Asian states. It is now a force
to be reckoned with and to be respected on its own merits.
The
tag of being the Sick Man of Asia, a semi colony of the West, a broken
country with nothing, no inventions, no modern industries, no talents
except poverty and all the trappings of a poor and backward third world
country vanished over a few decades. There is renewed pride as a people,
a nation and a civilization in the new China . A phoenix has risen from
the ashes. There is no turning back. The Chinese have found their way
back and will leap frog over the West in science and technology and in
all things, while the West are still trying to restrain their advances
by hook and by crook.
Today,
the overseas Chinese are also starting to rediscover themselves, their
pride and dignity as a respectable people. They too find some renewed
confidence that they are not rubbish and useless as the West wanted to
hole them in, to be bullied by even little third world people, to be
told to go home in western countries. They too share the pride of an
ancient civilization seeking a second chance in renaissance, to achieve
in whatever they seek to do, to be a respectable people and civilization
on par with the best in the world. They no longer lower their heads in
shame as they go about their lives. They are standing tall, heads and
shoulders to the Western civilization with the knowledge that they are
just as good if not better. The Chinese civilization is reviving and
will no longer be oppressed and suppressed again.
We can all benefit from a short history lesson of mankind and their actions on earth and the generations to come!
The
Chinese today have enjoyed a life far more better than their
predecessors since the invasion and rule of the Manchus, through 100
years of humiliation by the West, the Japanese invasion and occupation,
civil wars and the early days of the new republic. The first 40 years of
reconstruction and rebuilding of China were tough and very difficult
with the continued oppression, isolation and containment by the West.
Today, the Chinese people are happy, rich and confident and very proud
of being Chinese and their country China. They are very grateful to the
Chinese Communist Party, CCP, for making all these possible and lives
getting better and better by the day.
And
China is emerging as the most prosperous and powerful country in the
world and this is unstoppable no matter what the declining American
Empire and the West are trying to do to block this from happening. The
oppression of the Chinese people cannot go on forever and would never be
allowed to happen again. There is a new China and a new Chinese people
that would stand tall and proud among the people of the world.
Every
Chinese in China, guided and led by the CCP, is talking and living his
Chinese Dream, to be rich and successful and respected. The Americans
used to have their dreams but the dreams of many Americans today are
turning into a nightmare.
The above are parts of the support for younger seniors in the 2024 Budget. There are also supports given to the older seniors in the Merdeka and Pioneer Generations. The big question is whether these supports are sufficient are should be called 'support'?