Monday, February 19, 2007

Symbolic cultures


CHINA has a problem. Sunday begins the new year in the country, the year of the Pig, symbol of abundancefor the majority of the Chinese population. But the pink animal is not accepted by the twenty million Moslems that the country counts. The problem is the same in the Islamic world, in which Beijing wants to link a lot of oil friendships. The answer of Beijing was clear : the animal must be sacrificed.
The verdict was made public a few days ago with the CCTV, the central – and unique – television. The Chinese leaders want to respect cultural and ethnic considerations, so, any image of pig will be now on isolated supressed.
That is very ridiculous to sacrify a such symbol of the chinese culture if the reason is just enter in the world trade.
I do not imagine how to supress for example symbols of some countries like American eagle, Russian bear, and French cock because some people do not like it.
Moreover, it seems that they would like to supress for the same reasons the dragoon beacuse a lot of people in occidental world associates the dragon with dangerous legends. Thus, a whole culture is about of disparaitre. I have a fear concerning this country, first China is going to kill all of the economies through the world, then, this country is going to kill itself. For the first fear, that is yotaly normal, that is the law of supply and demand, for the second part, it is stupid, a culture disappears.