Sunday, October 30, 2011

a must see


The value of this product is that it has shown the awareness of human weakness on aspects of communication. The ideal of the real 'Equality' seems still requiring a long journey to fulfill. The narrator in this video has adapted the expert voice, which is normally employed by the white anthropologist when dealing with researches on other ethnic groups. With this irony, it sharpens our sense for recognizing the ugliness of our self-assured stance.

Coincidentally, it reminds me of what some Chinese writer once mentioned about the stinkiness of the white people. The white people seems really easier to get stinky, when comparing with most of Chinese. Nevertheless, I think that the white people is not the only group of people who are easy to get stinky. The Indians and black people are easy to get stinky too, but only in different ways of stinkiness. I guess that the sense of stinkiness is only aroused when we are encountering smells which are unfamiliar to us.
My husband told me a story of his friend, who stayed in Dalian for one year, in the early 2000s. By then, deodorant seemed still not so commonly offered in shops of Dalian. So, when he finally found it from the promotional packs of shampoo, which had the deodorant as the attached free gift, he felt a real relief.
This story seems irrelevant to the video here. Nevertheless, it shows their awareness of their own stinkiness, and they are looking for the cure consciously and actively.
I think that this is the attitude that most of us are lacking of. As a Chinese, I tend to focus this remark on Chinese. I think that I have never found any good deodorant product in China, which is developed by Chinese ourselves. For many years, I have witness the attempt of those fine chemical factories, through various “香体露”, which they have produced. Unfortunately, they never worked effectively. This phenomenon reminds me of the theory of the famous Chinese economist Qian Jiaju, on the development of national industry, when he observed the fact that the consumption of Japanese products in China was always higher following the previous boycott.
Before issuing a criticism on the others, we should always check through ourselves with our deep conscious and get to know and strengthen ourselves first.
“夫人必自侮然后人侮之;家必自毁而后人毁之;国必自伐而后人伐之。”This is the old saying from Mengzi. Bearing this saying in our culture, we have developed two thousand and three handred years onward. However, are we really developing?

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