Thursday, September 14, 2006

Why there are so many E-GAO among young people?

first, this is from a series of "real person show" develped by a young couple, in which they designed the plot, performed by themselves and presented in a comic style through 4 or 6 photos (sorry i lost the link):



boy: wow, fantastic, you are wonderful, you are the most wonderful girl i have ever met



boy: that's your husband, right?
girl: nope



boy: your boyfriend?
girl: neither



boy: i see, it must be the person who keeps you as mistress
girl: certainly not, you are so ironic



girl: he is handsome? don't you find that he resembles me?
boy: oh yeah, he is your brother



girl: that's me! me before the transsexual operation in korea

so, why there are so much e-gao (i.e. spoof), satire, cynicism, etc. among young people?

i have three "theories" -

1) like any young generation of the world, spoof is a good way to have fun
2) in a rapidly changing society, chinese younth confront more frustrations than their peers in other parts of the world
3) media is controled here, so young people use satire and cynicism to criticise "sensitive issues"


posted @ 8:01 PM

China has been a part of Korea since ancient times!

via: peking duck - "Korea has been a part of China since ancient times!"

an academic study has became an diplomatic dispute between china and south korea. it's quite understandable that countries like china and korea are sometime very sensitive to issues related with national sovereignty and pride.

however, it's interesting that peking duck blog always picked up only one side of the story, at the same time vehementaly accused ESWN blog of imbalanced coverage and "neglecting key points" when reports china news.

this is the other side of the story that peking duck blog usually forgets to tell you:



a map in a korean history book, in the map, russian far east, japan and most part of china belong to korea



《the korean history》,"it's not a textbook", said korean consulate in shanghai



yeah,according to that history book, the region of current shanghai was part of korea, taiwan and part of tibet also belonged to korea

well,these are just personal opinions (in the korean case) or academic studies (in the chinese case). it's a little silly to bring them to the level of diplomatic dispute

and it's not very fair to accuse others(ESWN blog) of imbalanced covergage while it's a common practice of itself (peking duck blog).


posted @ 3:36 PM