PureInsight | March 28, 2005
[PureInsight.org] Chinese people like "to save face." It is probably a characteristic of Chinese people as a group. I remember when I was very young, my mother told me not to tell others about our family issues. She told me, "Anything you have to talk about, just talk about it after you get home." The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) propaganda has taken advantage of the Chinese people's natural inclinations and made the Chinese people think that if outsiders learn about the bad things that the CCP has done to the Chinese people, it would be considered "losing the Chinese people's face," and people who have done this should be regarded as black sheep or traitors.
Is it correct to assume that we cannot discuss internal problems with outsiders? When family issues become legal issues, family scandals can't be regarded simply as family scandals but instead need to be dealt with according to the law. If a husband abuses his wife, if a son abuses his parents, if the parents who drink too much and use drugs abuse the children, can they forever get away "scot-free," just because it is a family issue?
When a problem occurs, the important thing isn't to prevent outsiders from knowing of the truth but how to handle the situation. Some people learn from the ostrich to bury their heads in the sand [pretending a situation does not exist]. "As long as I don't see lions, lions can't see me." One then assumes this attitude, "As long as scandals are covered up they don't exist." By fooling themselves that way, aren't they being foolish? Constantly covering up domestic scandals is helping tyrants to do evil things, isn't it? As the old saying goes, "If a small hole is not patched, it is difficult to repair the big hole."
When the Chinese students held demonstrations in 1989 urging the Chinese government to reform, it resulted in the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Yet the CCP regime turned around and blamed the massacre on the students, saying that the students had caused a riot and killed several soldiers in the process. In the whole world, only the Chinese Communist Party would do this kind of thing.
When other countries criticize certain things that the CCP has done, the CCP claim they are "domestic affairs" and rebuffs all criticisms. The Chinese Communist Party excuses this by stating that outsiders might not be aware of all the details of the Chinese domestic problems. But even the insiders, the Chinese people themselves, are prevented from inquiring about what is going on in the Chinese government. No matter how badly the Communist Party leads, no matter how many people have starved to death, no matter how the national economy has been on the edge of collapse, no one is permitted to speak the truth. Someone had said "the Communist Party has the ability to put on different hats for different scenarios," to disguise its flaws and failures. Whosoever makes any comment regarding the Chinese Communist Party is branded, becomes a subject of persecution and is suppressed as an "anti-revolutionary."
The Chinese Communist Party said "the Chinese people's human rights are a Chinese internal issue and a matter of Chinese sovereignty. Foreign countries should not interfere in the Chinese internal affairs." This can be likened to drunk and drug-addicted parents abusing their children who say, "These are my children. I treat my children as I see fit." Should outsiders really not interfere in its internal affairs?
A person must first be a human being. Human beings have a standard common to all – that of distinguishing between good and evil. Human beings have values and universally recognize notions such as a person's dignity, equality, freedom, democracy and other positive traits. All ought to observe universal laws.
In the SARS plague, some people said "Dr. Jiang [the courageous Chinese physician who exposed the spreading of SARS] revealed domestic scandals and has therefore committed an ignominious act of treason." But if it were not for a person like Dr. Jiang, who is really concerned about the country and people, what would happen to China? Unfortunately, instead of rewarding him, the CCP has placed Dr. Jiang under house arrest and cut off all outside contacts with him.
If someone has done something wrong and his family is unable to solve the problem, is it wrong for another family member to go outside and ask for help? Is it correct to scold that person who is trying to get the problem solved? Isn't the person who does the scolding committing an act of the most perverse hooliganism?
Translated from: http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2005/1/29/30894.html
