Aug 31 2007
Monk vs Ninja or China’s Great Firewall Attempts to Expand?
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The internet is a place where anybody can say and do anything they want, to an extent. This often means you get people acting like total morons even though they would never conduct themselves in such a fashion offline. China seems bound and determined to decide exactly what it’s people will see and hear on the internet and subsequently attempt to control how her people think. So when an anonymous poster on a forum states that an unarmed Ninja beat some Kung-fu monks this naturally gets their panties in a twist! In fact, Such an outrageous comment means that this person must apologize to the affronted monks of Shaolin temple and to the country of China as a whole.
Uh-huh, don’t hold your breath. Personally I think this is just another attempt by China to control what is said about the country by it’s countrymen and outsiders as whole.
Hey China! We know what the Kanji for your country’s name means and its origin. Maybe back in the day you were a powerhouse and you controlled all of Asia, but not anymore. And you certainly have no right to try and control what the rest of the world says and thinks. If someone is spouting nonsense then just walk away and ignore it.
Ah, and in case any Chinese government officials are reading this, let me make one thing perfectly clear. NYAAHHH!!!! Don’t bother asking for an apology from this opinionated blogger, you won’t get it. Besides, you’ve already banned my blogs and sites in your country so what do I care about your petty concerns?
BEIJING - China’s Shaolin Temple, the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is demanding an apology from an Internet user who said its monks had once been beaten in unarmed combat by a Japanese ninja, Chinese media reported on Friday.
Shaolin Temple, in the northern province of Henan, became famous in the West as the training ground for Kwai Chang ”Grasshopper” Caine in the 1970s “Kung Fu” TV series.
Ninjas — professional assassins trained in martial arts — date back to medieval Japan.
“The so-called defeat is purely fabricated, and we demand the Internet user to apologize to the whole nation for the wrongs he or she did,” the Beijing News said, citing a notice announced by a lawyer for the Shaolin monks.
Emotions running high
Relations between Chinese and Japanese are sensitive at the best of times, with emotions still running high over Japan’s invasion and occupation of parts of China in the first half of the 20th Century.The Internet user, calling themselves “Five Minutes Every Day,” said on an online forum last week that a Japanese ninja came to Shaolin, asked for a fight and many monks failed to beat him, the newspaper said.
“The facts that the monks could not defeat a Japanese ninja showed that they were named as kung fu masters in vain,” the Internet user was quoted as saying in the post.
The Shaolin Temple “strongly condemned the horrible deeds” of the user, the newspaper said.
“It is not only extremely irresponsible behavior with respect to the Shaolin Temple and its monks, but also to the whole martial art and Chinese nation,” it quoted the monks as saying.
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