In Cracks between Two Worlds Page #2
There is a poet in this chat group. I have read some of his poems. The first one is ingenious and fresh, but as I continue to read, his poems are all the same boring, without soul or spirit, just some clever words and sentences put together as a child assembles Lego blocks. Maybe not even as good, because Lego is more colorful and creative. I think I must have offended him when I expressed my true feelings about his poems. Inadvertently cultivated bad feelings. The lesson learned is that when you talk to an old Chinese classmates, never be too honest. Even if you don't really like it, you must flatter him or her. Finally, when I talked about my love story, two former classmates were furious. What I thought romantic, poetic and memorable loves were considered by them as immoral and vulgar. I told them that in the United States, attractiveness and affections between men and women are something to be proud of. The response I got was that they don't care about how Americans feel or think. It is a shame for a man to play with a woman. More people interjected in agreement. I was isolated and criticized in a single tone by a group of people. The hostility is very strong. Is this the same as China's Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s? A person will be collectively criticized in public for what he said. I was even told that I could feel free to leave the chat group for good. To be fair, a few people also came out to defend me, saying that I did not say anything inappropriate, nothing obscene or illegal. In fact, what I was talking about is only that I dated 3 girls within half a year during my 21-year-old college days, without any explicit and specific details. This chat group seems to be more restrictive than Islamic extremists. For some people, the mention of sex or love life is offensive. I sigh that if a beautiful tree stands out in a forest, the gust wind will destroy it. I saw the soil and grassroots of the Cultural Revolution once again. If a man’s love life in his 20s is so offensive, I understand why Playboy and Penthouse type magazines are banned locally because its citizens want to block them. I told them bluntly that I don't think that freedom of speech is an option for you people. Taking my short lived freedom of speech for an example, it has caused such a commotion in here, even though it is a very fundamental right for Americans. Let us all be like this, taking lies as the truth, ignorance as the virtue, miseries as the glory, and luxury as the sin...and you will all be happy. When you travel abroad, people from other countries in the world see you as if you are from a different species. Isn't that true? Why is there such a big gap between you and the rest of the world? This is still between old classmates, not complete strangers. Imagine what it would be like to throw bricks at each other between complete strangers? I still remember when I was in elementary school in Beijing, there was a story in the official textbook. A woman was raped by one of the Western invaders. The woman threw herself into a well and drown herself to death in shame. That story happened in the Qing Dynasty, and the people of the Middle Kingdom highly praised this lady for defending her chastity by committing suicide. Can I really blame my classmates in China for being too old-fashioned? I know that there are early Brook Shields movies on Amazon and Netflix. The 1978 film "Pretty Baby" was made when she was only 12 years old. In the film, she played a 12-year-old child prostitute. Many scenes of the film are nude. Isn't this child pornography? Even if the Supreme Court Justice said "I only know it when I see it", the viewers are innocent before they see it. However, no matter how artistic and innovative it may be, no matter how many good reviews given by major film critics, I cannot see or accept it. So, am I corny as hell too? Just on a different level. What is puzzling me is that in conservative China, before the government's cleanups in recent years, there was a huge group of prostitutes, probably more than any other countries on the planet. In today's New York Chinatown, there are still as many sex workers from China as there are Chinese restaurants. I don't know how to explain this contradiction.
Translation
Translate and read this book in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add this book to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"In Cracks between Two Worlds Books." Literature.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 21 Dec. 2024. <https://www.literature.com/book/in_cracks_between_two_worlds_1591>.
Discuss this In Cracks between Two Worlds book with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In