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The Economist covers how China is trying to determine the meaning of “
universal values”:
The term “universal values”, or pushi jiazhi, is a new one in Chinese
political debate—surprising given that concepts commonly associated with it
, such as freedom, democracy and human rights, have been bickered over
incessantly for 30 years. Many Chinese scholars think the debate really took
off in 2008 after an earthquake in Sichuan province that killed around 80,
000 people. Ten days after the disaster, a liberal newspaper in the southern
province of Guangdong, Southern Weekend, published an editorial that
praised the government’s swift response. It said it had “honoured its
commitments to its own people and to the whole world with respect to
universal values”.
That single mention of the term was enough to enrage hardliners. A
flurry of commentary appeared in Beijing newspapers and on conservative
websites attacking the idea of universal values as a Western plot to
undermine party rule. China was preparing to host the Olympics in August
2008 with the slogan, “one world, one dream”. But conservatives feared
that embracing universal values would mean acknowledging the superiority of
the West’s political systems. In September, after the games, the party’s
own mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, weighed in. A signed article accused
supporters of universal values of trying to westernise China and turn it
into a laissez-faire economy that would no longer uphold “socialism with
Chinese characteristics”. | u****n
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发帖数: 4466 | 5 A signed article accused
supporters of universal values of trying to westernise China and turn it
into a laissez-faire economy that would no longer uphold “socialism with
Chinese characteristics”. | f**********r
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发帖数: 7521 | 7 评价最高（35人顶）的comment：
价值是文化的孩子，不同的文化必然有不同的价值观。Values are the children of a
culture.
Kwin wrote:
Sep 30th 2010 9:02 GMT
What values are "universal"? Is the right to bear arms one of them? How
about the entitlement to jobs? health care? death penalty? privacy? Are
democracy in the US, in Japan are in UK the same? Should the US bring back a
queen or a king, who is above everyone else simply because a luck sperm
finds the correct target? Is this "universal" enough?
And who can claim that the Western model is the best and it would do well in
the rest of the world? What is a good testimony to that? The economic
crisis or the failing state of Afghanistan?
Values are the children of a culture. China needs to absorb western values.
But it needs to do it on its unique cultural foundation. Cloning the "
Western model" is not the answer, not when the "universal" western model
doesn't even exist.
Values are universal only when they are abstract. Nobody in China is arguing
against "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", but rather where the
boundary of "the pursuit of happiness" is in real life. This boundary is
not universal at all. Japan has the most restrictive gun laws and limits the
top speed of cars to 112mph, none of which are acceptable in the US. Even
in the US, the 2nd amendment stops people from bearing nukes and the 1st
amendment stops people from inciting riots. When an individual's pursuit
brings suffering to the others, it should stop, or be stopped.
This article reflects the typical mindset of a proselytic culture, which
itself is Western and not universal. | s**********t
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