At Tian's house and wanted to watch news on TV. Found out that their TV antenna was taken down by storm for the last few months. So her father played some Chinese DVDs on various 'inspirational' topics.
One of those DVDs had a introduction that said that Chinese culture is 5,000 years old while western culture is only 200 years old.
On hearing the introduction, I decided that there is no need to watch it further. Any one with a little history would know that the 'west' claim that their culture descended from the Greeks which is at least 2,000 years old. Like Chinamen's 5,000 year old claim, that is also just a claim.
I guessed that the fools that produced the Chinaman DVD took the Industrial Age which is about 200 years old to be 'western civilisation'.
Apparently, to some Chinamen 5,000 years being longer than Greece's 2,000 years (or according to the idiots that produced the DVD above, 200 years) meant a big deal.
Assuming that those Chinaman idiots were correct, it did not occur to them to wonder how come others with only 200 years of culture can send rovers to Mars and spacecrafts to all the planets whereas one with 5,000 years could not. All those Chinamen had to show by way of great achievement with regards to getting close to the heavens is some poem by Li Bai about watching the moon from his bed and fairy tale about cattle herder and his flame.
Could it be that in truth one culture is 200 years old and the other is 50 times 100 years (not 5,000 years) old?
Rover 'Curiosity' Landing on Mars (5 August 2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=P4boyXQuUIw&NR=1
Side Note 1 - 12 times 1 year's experience:
1990s After interviewing a job applicant for our company Andersen Consulting, we asked our fellow interviewer (a partner) what he thought about the applicant. The partner said 'in his resume the applicant claimed he has 12 years experience but after I found out what he was doing in those 12 years I found that it was nothing more than what a 1-year old staff in our company can do. To me he does not have 12 years of experience but 12 times 1 year's experience!' We laughed.
Side Note 2 - No point for new antenna
Tian father's reason for not fixing a new antenna was Singapore TV broadcast will soon be going digital and a new analog antenna would not be to receive Singapore's broadcast soon and thus money wasted. But what he does not seem to know or consider is that Singapore will begin digital broadcast of all channels by end 2012 or start 2013 but will continue to broadcast in analog for a few more years. That is to say that Singapore will be going 'all digital soon' but not 'ONLY digital soon'. In addition, Malaysian TV channels are still on analog and not going 'digital' soon.
Life Lesson 1:
Knowing a little bit or having incomplete information is very dangerous.
Life Lesson 2:
Any idiot can make a claim (or produce DVDs). Even idiots that know only a bit of something get to spread their stupidity around - all they need is some money (to produce DVDs) and a good dose of arrogance. So beware of what you read or see. Paying to learn from arrogant fools (like buying DVDs above) is one of the most stupid thing to do.
Life Lesson 3:
It is not how old one is or how many years one has done something that matters, it is what one actually knows or can do that matters.
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