Comments on: Poem: Waiting for You to Come http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2009/05/poem-waiting-for-you-to-come/ Watching China Politics from Cyberspace Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:50:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John_01http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2009/05/poem-waiting-for-you-to-come/#comment-10215 John_01 Tue, 12 May 2009 02:56:53 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=35197#comment-10215 From Fool Mountain Forum an Essay by Mark Anthony Jones"Tian an men revisited sorting Fact from Fiction" http://blog.foolsmountain.com/2009/05/08/sorting-fact-from-fiction-%e2%80%93-tiananmen-revisited-part-1/Blogger comments: William Huang wrote: “democracy is also an experience and it cannot be obtained over night or taught in school. Without such experiences, it’s chaos. Therefore, the progress has to be gradual, particularly for a country with 1.3 billion populations.” shane9210 wrote: "Democracy also came out as an important part of civil tradition. Unfortunately, China’s long history did not provide any solid foudation for civil community. Under Chinese tradition, the next thing beyond the concept of family/tribe/clan is called kingdom/country, and all of them had to be guarded in orderly fashion through a single authority.The concept of civil community that are formed and shared by people of equal rights are still very new to lots of Chinese. In the West, people are taking this notion for granted, but it would take at least two generations for such important experience to take root in china." From Fool Mountain Forum an Essay by Mark Anthony Jones”Tian an men revisited sorting Fact from Fiction”
http://blog.foolsmountain.com/2009/05/08/sorting-fact-from-fiction-%e2%80%93-tiananmen-revisited-part-1/

Blogger comments:
William Huang wrote: “democracy is also an experience and it cannot be obtained over night or taught in school. Without such experiences, it’s chaos. Therefore, the progress has to be gradual, particularly for a country with 1.3 billion populations.”

shane9210 wrote:
“Democracy also came out as an important part of civil tradition. Unfortunately, China’s long history did not provide any solid foudation for civil community. Under Chinese tradition, the next thing beyond the concept of family/tribe/clan is called kingdom/country, and all of them had to be guarded in orderly fashion through a single authority.

The concept of civil community that are formed and shared by people of equal rights are still very new to lots of Chinese. In the West, people are taking this notion for granted, but it would take at least two generations for such important experience to take root in china.”

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