Chinese American child in the United States wear pants alarm was awkward encounter new and old traditions
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November 8, 2014 07:38:35 Source: Guangzhou Daily, I have something to say (1 participation)
Young children wear pants. (Picture)
News Background
According to the United States "newspaper" reported that recently came online in Monterey Park, California, a Chinese woman wearing pants with a child walking in the park, the result was a white woman police, when the police learned that the children wear pants when open defecation in order, could not believe his ears.
Li Mingbo: We are people who grew up wearing pants, so I heard that wearing pants is considered an indecent act in the United States, many people feel angry. Belgium there is a statue of a boy urinating every day of it, how did people say immoral?
Americans fuss over it?
Wen Junhua: Cultural Conflict in the final analysis. Tony Leung starred in the movie "scraping" also reflects the Chinese culture abroad as a result of the conflict into all sorts of trouble.
Li Mingbo: There is a netizen said angrily, Americans often have a collective streaking over a section, actually have the nerve to say that we Chinese kids wear pants? I think this rhetorical question asked was very good.
Zhao Jian: This thing Americans are not overkill? US law is not to open defecation, but there is no law prohibiting child wear pants. The problem is that this is not the time of Chinese children caught in open defecation.
Wen Junhua: Americans do often fuss on child issues. For example, there was an American father to help children after the bath was photographed kissing the belly button photo, also indicted, "child molestation," the judge even deprived of their custody.
Zhao Jian: Also, I think the media is biased, causing public opinion almost unanimously criticized the Chinese parents. News of the original words "Parents explain wear pants to open defecation," I think any parent can not be said that the press described the intent of misleading readers.
Li Mingbo: foreigners do not want to give their children wear pants because they are pre-filled voyeur and pedophile, it is not possible to give them the opportunity peeping kids, sensitive child privacy of their own bodies have from childhood exposure to sensitive culture, in order to reduce the chance of injury.
Wen Junhua: The most serious consequence is that if the police confirmed that the United States is because the parents did not buy seal crotch pants for children to wear, can be able to take the children from their parents, to the supervision of Child Welfare. Because the Americans, it is the parents are not doing their parental responsibility.
Li Mingbo: We can say that the Americans are here to discuss a fuss, but the Chinese in the United States had better pay attention, do not you can not put this thing seriously. A policeman in an interview with American Chinese media interview, explaining how he would handle the situation the child wear pants and open defecation. He said the phenomenon to be specific conditions, do not understand the pants are a common phenomenon in China that he "will be the first to know whether parents sane", "Are there suspected child abuse."
Pants is a cultural tradition
Zhao Jian: Although pants long history, but many cities in China have been difficult to see. One reason is not needed - pants are for the convenience of changing diapers, diaper diapers now have been replaced, pants naturally redundant.
Li Mingbo: you should never look down pants, this is something that Chinese mothers use for generations, can be said to be an ancient wisdom of Chinese culture. More than anything diapers much stronger, breathable absorbent, readily able to change, but do not worry about little ass rash.
Zhao Jian: In other countries, we can often see a lot of foreigners, even three-year-old children will take to the streets wearing diapers. Among other things, just very serious waste of resources, after all, it is not the same as diapers can be recycled.
Wen Junhua: Actually you can wear pants at home, go out wearing seal crotch pants.
Li Mingbo: right, in their own home how you want to wear are OK, but went outside to go to the influence of others, or the Romans do better.
Li Mingbo: Now more and more overseas Chinese, a similar cultural conflicts are increasing. April this year, also in Monterey Park, also there was a similar incident: A Chinese woman walking belt ethnic girls, girls pour "Boy urine" on the lawn, parents actually let the children, were not corrected, local citizens bear watching and alarm.
Zhao Jian: I have one more sad case. A single father of Chinese descent alone in raising her daughter, the daughter of his father from an early age to help her daughter a bath, even in her daughter grew up to the age of 10 and still do. Later, American teachers alarm, the police force to take away his daughter, this ethnic Chinese father took a kitchen knife from the kitchen, stand in front of the house and waving, brought the police pulled out a gun and killed the father of Chinese descent.
He should respect the law of the State
Li Mingbo: Back to the pants this topic, since the American people think that wearing pants unsightly, US law also provides for penalties for similar acts, then I think most of the time, or should be respected.
Wen Junhua: Romans, respect for the majority of people's living habits, values agree, this is not to make compromises, nor is it to give up their own civilization, but does not represent a civilization conquer another civilization.
Li Mingbo: With more and more Chinese people on the scene, more and more frequently in the world, more and more similar to the collision.
Zhao Jian: I do not understand one thing. US claims to ethnic melting pot, always emphasize cultural diversity, why can not respect that Americans about traditional Chinese culture, wearing pants it? Not to mention the incident in Monterey Park near Los Angeles, has become a neighborhood Chinese immigrants.
Li Mingbo: Your question is to force, well-founded, together we give you praise.
