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It seems to me that Americans care about gossip more than their own fame. This feeling comes from my experiences with some travellers and teachers I have ever met. They bothered me with questions about my attitude toward their people and country. Certain requirements were so aggressive that even got me anguished. The first challenge, also the most boring one, is "Do you like Americans?" I feel hopeless with this desperate beginning of any conversation that I might come across somewhere. If I were your God or President, I would answer it with "Yes" or "No". In case they are not satisfied with this result, they would continue with a second one: "Do you hate me?" How stupid it is to disturb this way, why do I have to do it since I would never meet you again? Your standpoint appears to be so important in their judgement of themselves. They do not pay attention to the influence thay they could leave to their listeners. In 2014, at the airport of Dubai...

At last, whenever Hilary Clinton attemped to elude me, she would wear a pair of sun glasses to hide her true feeling behind them. In certain cases, when I reminded her of her family skeleton on purpose, she would raise her head high.

My father is Ui-ui or Uigur, and so am I. Moreover, we are the direct descendants of the female Dutch who were seized to China as prisoners of war by the Mongolian Army about 800 years ago, when the crusaders rushed to the Middle East for a war with the local muslims. And so, out of prank, I call my father Duschman as my people would do in case they are somehow annoyed with a family member. Duschman is Dutchman in English, and pronounced as it is spelt: Do-sch-man. My father knows the difference between the Chinese and us, but he is afraid to admit it. His worry comes from the assimilation policy of the past and present Chinese Authorities, who deny the origin of my people from Uigur. They want us to assimilate into Chinese completely. My father was a member of the Communist Party of China. Though proud of being one, he unconsciously taught us, his children to speak his own language. One of the words that has confused me of its origin is "Klimasa", w...

Ever since April 2015, there have been enought cries and hurray along with the stock market turbulence. In my office, the temperamental turbulence makes many stockholders restless like an ant on a hot pan. They have rushed into the stock market since 2008 with a dream of being parvenus over one night. At this point, the unpredictable undulation of stock trading implies an economic crisis, which is the conviction of some economists who hold a negative attitude towards the financial tendency of China. In their opinion, the crisis might last from 2015 through 2017.

In China, there has never existed any concept of friendship, which is so plain and rather evident. It is supplanted by "Guan Shi", which is nice and abstract to the "pragmatic" Chinese people. "Guan Shi" is relationship in English, and an unspoken rule in China. It has nothing to do with bribery originally, but ultimately it takes root in bribery and becomes prosperous among the Chinese at all levels. The average of the Chinese make it a rule to give and take small gifts. If anyone ignores the importance of their "etiquette", they would pull a long face at the minimum; and at the maximum, in the case that you request them for a favor, they would quarrel and even fight with you, calling you names! It is not necessary to bribe them all the time. However, it is significent to smoothen relationship frequently, because "Guan Shi" goes sour quickly in China! What a Chinese might give in order to be "friendly" are...

It is difficult to keep silent with some Chinese without complaining about their racist attitude towards all the islamic groups of people dwelling in China. It is extremely annoying when they mention the Shan Gan Hui Uprising that took place between 1862 and 1873, and label the Chinese Hui ethnic minority as "thieves"! The riot started due to a disputation between a Hui man who refused to change the price of the bamboos sold by a Chinese man, and the Chinese man's father who refused to sell his bamboos cheaply. A mishap exploded when Zuo Zongtang and his fellow officials misjudged the case and the following pretest, convicting the whole Hui people of rebellion, stigmatizing Hui as thieves. Zuo Zongtang waged a war on Hui people. Under his command, the Chinese army carried out a bloody purge of all the islamic peoples including Hui. The survivals of the war fled into the mountainous northwest of China and certain foreign countries like Kazakhstan. It is cruel of the Chines...