BerlinRocks
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To me the issue is more about one of the first symptoms of a Western/Eastern clash of civilizations and cultures ...
China is known, todays, for growing to be the FIRST economic powerful country. Therefore, its middle-class and upper-middle-class is growing very fast... But while, the poor people are getting richer and are trying western entertainment joys, they want at the same time remain as close as possible to their traditions ... So, I'm not surprised (even though this is ****ing freaky) to notice that older Chinese people want to on the one hand enjoy the new "western entertainment", and on the hands try to find a way to remain as traditional as they can ... So somebody with a businessly enough brain invented these masks ... And since, in these days of post-communism Chinese are ready to buy everything they can, I'm neither surprised to see they buy this ugly mask ...
But to be sincere, I know nothing about China and the entertainment in the old days of communism ... Was it allowed to go on the beach ? Was it accepted for wealthy people to parade on a beach with lower classes ? I don't know ...
China is known, todays, for growing to be the FIRST economic powerful country. Therefore, its middle-class and upper-middle-class is growing very fast... But while, the poor people are getting richer and are trying western entertainment joys, they want at the same time remain as close as possible to their traditions ... So, I'm not surprised (even though this is ****ing freaky) to notice that older Chinese people want to on the one hand enjoy the new "western entertainment", and on the hands try to find a way to remain as traditional as they can ... So somebody with a businessly enough brain invented these masks ... And since, in these days of post-communism Chinese are ready to buy everything they can, I'm neither surprised to see they buy this ugly mask ...
But to be sincere, I know nothing about China and the entertainment in the old days of communism ... Was it allowed to go on the beach ? Was it accepted for wealthy people to parade on a beach with lower classes ? I don't know ...
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