re-emergence

Well, I started this blog a very long time ago, but I never really picked it up and ran with it. I'd done fairly well updating my other one, until I couldn't get to it anymore... but I think I'm going to try this again. So, here goes.

I've written "Middle Kingdom" up in the title line because that's the direct translation of how China is said in Chinese. The country's short name is Zhong Guo, with zhong meaning "center; middle", and guo meaning "kingdom; nation; domain". Of course, the full name is Zhonghua Renmin Gonghe Guo, The People's Republic of China. More thoughts later on how living in the center of the universe changes things.

For tonight, two things:

Today I skimmed this article written in Newsweek by a writer with whom I disagree on some things. However, I found it interesting that he called the vice presidentship "the second most important job in the world" (paragraph 3). It's the in the world that's getting to me. Do you really think there is no more important job in the whole world than that? No other country or group of nations has a leader that is perhaps more important? Sounds much like a 井底之蛙。



I was recently reading this article, and it got me thinking. I wish I could go to these places and events because they are so eye opening. Every time there is an opportunity to experience bits of another culture, it is not only an opportunity to experience something new. It is also a chance to learn how to lift the people and culture up. I just think of, for example, the idols and images one would see visiting the places listed in the Times' article-- how much you could learn about how to Think of the people of East and Southeast Asia!
So what about me, right now? Do I approach it in this fashion? Do I look at my job or studies as an opportunity to see what people really need and Think of them accordingly? Do I look at the lady who helps "guard" my apartment complex as "Tang Yi" (auntie Tang), or as someone lost that I could be thinking of and reaching out to?

And you?