Last week about 60 Chinese students of BU watched the TIANAN’MEN parade, we got together to celebrate our motherland’s 60 years anniversary. When we sang the national anthem of China, I cried. I am so proud my motherland is becoming stronger and stronger. More and more Chinese students can study abroad in the best universities in the world.
At the same time I read a lot of analysis from the newspapers and journals of America, the one really impressed me is one comment from New York Times. It was published on October 2, 2009 on New York Times. The comment first describes the parade and cites President Hu Jintao’s speech. And also it cites some comments from professors of universities. Most of the words the journalist used is negative. I don’t agree with the journalist’s views.
First, he said the 60th-anniversary celebration was kitschy and indisputably retro. For me the celebration is great, we want to show the world now we stood rock-firm in the east of the world. We already stop the time conquered by other countries. I think for the Europeans like Italians, English, they can’t imagine how bad the country was occupied by others, they can’t imagine Chinese people’s feeling, from 1840, the Opium War, to Oct. 1,1949, Chinese people suffered 110 years war. People were killed by the foreign military, culture relics were robbed by the foreign military, girls and women were raped by foreign soldiers, gold and silver were robbed by foreign military. Even today, I have seen a lot of precious culture relics are stored at England Metropolitan Museum. We suffered for such a long time. The reason why we were conquered by other countries is we were so weak, my motherland were so weak at that time. We have no guns, no cannons to protect our country. Backwardness leaves China vulnerable to attack. Now, for the 60 years development, Chinese people have made unremitting efforts to realize the goal of rejuvenating the nation. The aim of the 60-years celebration is show the world China is not weak any more, we will not let other countries occupy our country again. Now we are an independent country.
Second, the journalist seemed totally disagree with communism, maybe for westerners China’s Communist Party, and the communist country looks like the monster. They are so scared of communist. Last year, when I first arrived at Boston, so many American ask me: Is China very poor, so you escaped from China and come to America? I told them No, now more and more Chinese students come to America to study, they can afford the expensive tuition, even better than some of Americans. For example, BU charge a lot of tuition every year, it is expensive for American families too, but Chinese students’families can afford it. This proves that there are a lot of Chinese families not poor.
Until now I still keep my view that China was poor not because of the communist, it is because the over 100 years war. When America developed the economics, China was fighting with other countries, we did not have chance to develop our economics. We use 60 years to develop our economics and now China becomes the biggest developing country in the world. The progress is not easy, I am so proud of it.
Support my motherland!
Long live China!
