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rigas
Website: http://rigas.ouvaton.org
Bio: Sociologist of scientific institutions specialized on developing countries (a disappearing specialty!). Have lived in China for some time and worked exlusively with Chinese academics.
Predictions about China's future
August 17, 2008 11:46am
Dyslexia in alphabetical languages "evaporates" when learning Chinese for some people
April 9, 2008 5:49am
Who knows exactly which side of the brain works with drawing and which side works best with letters? And why? I have no clue but I always heard about it. Also, your mother tongue, the one a dislexic is dislexic about, is using the left (or rigt) side while a language learned as an adult is on the other side. And so on...
Then there is a more general query: is it that the brain imagery shows he result of a more general learning process and that genes might not be so much involved as might be a general behavioural pattern or a social hability?
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Interestingly, very few of these arguments about human rights in China in these comments rely on the simple facts that Chinese themselves have been developing a long and permanent debate about democracy. This movement has been furiously repressed by the PCC. I would strongly recommend to all these experts-to-be to read for example the book by Jean-Philippe Béja : A la Recherche d'une Ombre Chinoise: Le mouvement pour la democratie en Chine (1919-2004). I think unfortunatly its only in French. In any case the argument of the Keeper of the Lantern @ 1 is unreceivable, and has long been the argument of supporters of the communist regime: like if Chinese were unable gentically to be democrats. Unfortunatly the mere existence of Taiwan demonstrates the contrary. And he adds the insult by saying in @27 : ''Is their oppression? Sure. Does it impact the vast majority of people on a daily basis? No. Is there poverty and have nots? Hell yes. But given the vast numbers, the system can be argued to work pretty well.'' Typically these arguments are used by the govt and are all wrong: there is oppression pretty much and people get killed because of it since there is never no way to counter act on the power of any autority; it does affect everyday life in many many ways such as for instance how you argue in front of a govt in order to open a business, to simply DO business, and there is absolutely no way to go againt the will of a local bos of the local govt; the huge invetsments made buy the central govt have proved to be very largely ineffective and if it were not for the private samll businesses China would be dead economically. The system DOES NOT work fine. Simply.