SoS Clinton sends New Year greetings to Asian and Asian-American, restating “mutual respect and mutual interest across borders and races”.
http://www.vnexpress.net/GL/The-gioi/2010/02/3BA18CB0/
Yet in Little Saigon, Westminster, CA a Tet (Lunar New Year) parade draws fire. Reason: Gay and Lesbian group is also participating, follows the tradition their counter parts have set in San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade. But this is a hard sell: Orange County lily white, and it’ s a suburb, an hour from Los Angeles.
So warring is waging on. No one seems to heed Ms Clinton’s words on this sacred New Year. If anything, it’s Valentine as well.
If I were a parent of one of those kids, I would march with them, fight for them and be vocalized. It’s 2010 and people want to bring us back to the Dark Age, when you can stigmatize anyone without medical evidence to support your allegation.
I guess in this century, it’s easier to preach “mutual interest” than “mutual respect”. Ms Clinton got her wording order right: respect must come before interest. Without respect, people would just take what they came for, and left bodies behind.
Yesterday, at a faculty meeting of UA, a Harvard grad faculty shot her colleagues. No detail yet to be revealed about this incident.
But obviously, it’s over disagreement and more than obviously, about disgust (extreme form of disrespect).
Tough world. Tough time. A lot of pent-up negativism. Even amidst a parade to celebrate cherry blossom, season change. But a change of heart is hard to come by. We need Valentine once a month. Just to shed bad blood. Somehow, we are wired to be empathic race, but too shy to show.
There is a book entitled “when elephants weep”. Aren’t we a better species than big E. On another note, I think Tila Tequila is now taking over where Pamela Anderson left off, The King of Pop took over from the King of Rock. And Jay Leno is taking over from Conan who took over from JL.
Happy New Year, Ms Clinton. Hope your husband recover from that recent “tune up”.
Thang Nguyen 555 