18 April 2012

They Just Don't Get It...

This Fairbank Report, as is the case in most fast-developing stories, quickly called on the President of USC and other top administrators to resign in light of the murders of student-scholars Ying Wu and Ming Qu. We made the call for resignation 24 hours after the graduate students were assassinated by a ghetto thug.



Now community voices – both within and without the USC campus – are demanding lethargic administrators to take responsibility for these crimes. USC must heed the community’s call for administrators to resign.


The problem with USC’s administrators (not unlike their peers throughout the United States) is that they don’t take life seriously. A couple of deaths here and there is no big deal to them. They attend a memorial in the AM and go dancing in the PM. They don’t viscerally feel the pain of the community and that of the surviving parents.


In Asia, and in China particularly, life is precious. People have been known to grieve for years. And so will the parents of Ying Wu and Ming Qu. This is the main difference between a barbarian “culture” of less than 300 years and a Han culture of 5,000 years…

1 comment:

John in LA said...

Yes, the Chinese certainly value life. That's what the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen Square were about -- valuing life.

Here's another great video, Jonathan. It looks like you just don't get it.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385111n