Chapter 8 Chapter 07 Confused Part 3: Don't Know Why Others See You That Way (1)

On May 24, 2008, Sharon Stone attended a public event in Cannes. When asked by a reporter if she knew about the Wenchuan earthquake in China, she suddenly made a stupid statement that "the earthquake is karma".She said that the Wenchuan Earthquake was the retribution for China's suppression of Tibet.The word "retribution" here, she used an English word called "Karma", which means "karma".Sharon Stone, as a movie star, actually talks about karma. Do readers think this is in line with the national character of Westerners?When did they talk about karma?

After this incident happened, it aroused great indignation among all Chinese people. At this time, who was the first one to come out to apologize for this, not Sharon Stone?Dior.Dior had invited Sharon Stone to be the image spokesperson for its products before. As soon as this incident happened, Dior was frightened immediately, and immediately began to do crisis public relations and crisis management. Before Sharon Stone agreed, he hurriedly Come out and apologize and say Sharon Stone was wrong, she didn't mean it.After Dior apologized, Sharon Stone also denied that she did not ask Dior to apologize on her behalf, which caused the Chinese to launch a more violent condemnation of her.In the end, the pressure of public opinion was too great. It was not until the end of May 2008 that Sharon Stone came out to apologize.The one who was really eager to apologize before was Dior who wanted to make money in China, and Sharon Stone didn't want to apologize.

Many people don't understand why Sharon Stone, a star who is popular in Hollywood and has won many international awards, speaks so rudely?In fact, the Sharon Stone incident is not an isolated incident. Let me give you another example.This matter is still about an American movie star named Richard Gere, who claims to be a disciple of the Dalai Lama, and Dan also wrote a letter to the US House of Representatives, requesting a boycott of our Beijing Olympic Games.Such a move is also unbelievable. First of all, I don't want to criticize them here, but I want to lead everyone to use a new concept to understand the driving forces behind the words and deeds of Sharon Stone, Richard Gere and others.When we are condemning them, I would like to ask everyone: "This Ms. Sharon Stone can achieve such amazing achievements in the acting career, she must not be stupid?" She must be a very wise person Otherwise, she would not be able to reach the pinnacle of the world film industry.And as a star, she must have been dealing with the media all her life, how could she not pay attention to her own words?And she must know the power of the media, and her understanding of the media must be higher than ours, because she needs to use her strengths, without the media, she would not be where she is today.So is it possible for a person like this to make a slip of the tongue in front of the media?Would you say something like this casually?She later apologized and said she was sorry, she made an accidental slip of the tongue.Do you think that's possible?I believe this is definitely not a slip of the tongue.

And have you ever imagined that many famous people in the American film and television industry are like this, including Steven Spielberg, one of the greatest directors in Hollywood, but he would have nothing to do with China because of an incident— - Violence in Darfur, Sudan, to condemn our Chinese government.I don't understand, what is he talking about?The massacre in Sudan has nothing to do with us, and it was not caused by us, but he accused us of not stopping it.How do we stop such incidents, how do we manage the affairs of other countries, right?He resigned from his position as a consultant for the Beijing Olympics just because of such a small matter, a matter that has nothing to do with China.Mr. Steven Spielberg is also very hostile to China.

Many of our readers really don't understand why these European and American celebrities have such strange feelings for Tibet.I would like to analyze the mentality of these stars for readers through a historical story. Hollywood made a movie called "Seven Years in Tibet", in which there was a leading actor named Haller, who was a member of the German Nazi Party in World War II.In the film, Haller is fortunate enough to befriend Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama (then as a young boy), and becomes his close friend and mentor.Isn't it strange why the Dalai Lama befriended the Nazis?

In order to answer this strange question, I will tell readers a fairy tale, which is very interesting.A long time ago, there was a land called Atlantis, where lived a most outstanding nation.This rich land once gave birth to an advanced civilization, but after a major earthquake, Atlantis sank to the bottom of the sea, and the sea submerged the land. At that time, a group of Atlanteans escaped in Noah’s Ark. This group was divided into two groups. The first group entered today’s Europe and became today’s Germans; the other group entered today’s Tibet and became today’s Germans. Tibetans.This story was passed down from racists in Germany.

I watched a documentary about the search for Noah's Ark twenty or thirty years ago. Guess where they thought Noah's Ark was lost?The answer is very surprising, it is in the Himalayas.Because after the mainland was submerged by sea water, it seemed that only the Himalayas with the highest altitude could provide escape for human beings, so they searched for Noah's Ark in the Himalayas, but of course they couldn't find it.But this documentary shows that the story of Atlantis does not seem to be groundless, and it seems that many Westerners believe in this story. In recent years, another documentary has been released. This documentary was filmed during World War II. In the film, it is recorded that the German Nazi Party sent a group of people to Tibet to find the so-called "compatriots". .I saw with my own eyes in the documentary that these Nazi party members used a ruler to measure the faces of Tibetans, because ethnography emphasizes bones.The Nazis wanted to find the lost generation of the past, and they went to Tibet to find it.In Europe before the Second World War, there was a saying about the axis of the world, which believed that as long as you controlled the axis of the world, you could change the time, and the axis of the world was in the Himalayas and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.So the Nazi Party at that time sent a group of people to Tibet to solve these mysteries.Later, they found three things.

First, they discovered that Tibetan myths do contain the legend of the world axis. Second, the symbol of Tibetan Buddhism is similar to the symbol of the German Nazi Party, but the direction is different and the form is exactly the same. Third, they found that the system of the Nazi Party was the same as the aristocratic serfdom system in Tibet. One group of people ruled all the serfs.During the Nazi rule of Germany, the German people were powerless to resist. Until after the Second World War, the German people thanked the Allies from the bottom of their hearts, because only external forces could break this solid organizational system.So the Germans had mixed feelings about World War II. They didn't hate it, and even thanked it to a certain extent, otherwise the Germans would have become "serfs" of the Nazi Party forever.

The discovery of these three reasons made the Nazi Party deeply believe in these historical legends.But what is even more interesting is that after the Second World War, the Nazi Party's materials on this part of Tibet have not been lifted until now.So many things have been lifted, including materials about the Holocaust, but not about Tibet. Why? In fact, the reason for this is more interesting.At the end of the 19th century, a group of alternative literature appeared, including a famous novel called "Lost Horizon" (another name is "Shangri-La").The story told in the book is exactly the same as Tao Yuanming’s. The only difference is that the beginning of the story is in the peach blossom forest. In the Jin Dynasty, a fisherman was fishing in a small stream. After getting off the boat, I looked east and west, and saw a small mountain pass with a little light inside.And "Lost Horizon" is about a guy who gets lost in the Himalayas...and then he also sees a small mountain pass with a little light in it.

And the story behind this, "Lost Horizon" is the same as what it tells.After they followed the light, they all saw the paradise--beautiful ridges, kind people, dressed like foreigners... In the end, the fisherman in the movie left for personal reasons, "Lost Horizon" This person also left for personal reasons.Later, both of them wanted to go back, but they didn't know the whereabouts of Xanadu, leaving a suspense. The story told in "Lost Horizon" is almost 99% similar.And where is Xanadu mentioned in "Lost Horizon"?It is Tibet. The novel was later made into a movie of the same name, which caused a huge sensation at the Western Film Festival.I believe that anyone who has a little knowledge of Western movies can not know this movie, because the filming of this movie is so shocking.I saw this movie 40 years ago, and I still haven't forgotten the storyline in it.This is the understanding of the historical origins of Tibetan Buddhism by people from both sides. This understanding started from the Nazi era in Germany and was widely disseminated through films such as "Lost Horizon".Readers, please think about it, what kind of nation would a nation like Tibet look like to Westerners?

Of course, we must sneer at the so-called blood theory of the Germans. In 1988, I was teaching at the University of Michigan, and there was a German boy named Karl in my class who fell in love with a Chinese girl.He said his parents objected when he decided to marry the girl.The reason for the objection is not that the girl is ugly, but that the Chinese girl has destroyed the good blood of the Germans.Ridiculous, right?Even when I went to Germany in 1982, the racism was clearly felt.When I sat down at the airport waiting for the plane, a German rushed over and yelled at me: "Go away, please don't get too close to my family!" That's the attitude .Of course, I must also admit that the situation has improved a lot now. After all, my experience was 30 years ago. The blood theory of the Germans, of course, also caused the tragedy of the Holocaust against the Jews by the Nazi Party, and this blood theory, through the exaggeration of "Lost Horizon", formed an indelible Tibetan complex in Western countries.Because this story has been widely circulated in the West—there are two groups of people who walked on Noah’s Ark in Atlantis, one is German and the other is Tibetan—it’s such a legendary story.This is why the Dalai Lama went to Western countries, and the leaders there would meet him. The reason is the so-called Tibet complex.Readers, please pay attention, what kind of complex is the Tibet complex?It is a complex of concentric circles. The concentric circles are three circles: the innermost circle is the so-called excellent nationalism boasted by the Germans themselves; the middle is the Tibetan Buddhism bred by the myth of Atlantis; the outermost circle is the Dalai Lama’s bragging everywhere The so-called universal value of pacifism.I basically disagree with Dalai's statement, but in order to be faithful to the original words, I wrote it down. This theory of concentric circles has been highly recognized by Western countries, which we did not understand in the past.It is for this reason that the so-called living Buddhas and reincarnations in Tibet sound like myths to us, but American and European film circles are particularly obsessed with such myths. The stories I told above are the background for Sharon Stone's words that "the Wenchuan Earthquake is karma".A woman of this extraordinary intelligence, a woman who has known how to manipulate the media her whole life, there is no way she could say the wrong thing.And what is the source of this kind of psychology deep in her heart?That's what I said, "Lost Horizon" has this subconscious thing going on in these people.Today, I can say that the West has gradually accepted this subconsciousness, so the so-called Tibet in their minds is completely different from that of us Chinese.Sharon Stone's emotional source for Tibet is the combination of "Lost Horizon" and the myth of Noah's Ark, which is the background factor of her "slip of the tongue". After we understand the background of all this, we don't find it strange to look back at Sharon Stone's radical comments, and this mentality is shared among many American film and television stars.When we understand these backgrounds, I believe we should have a deeper understanding of the formulation of the Chinese government's foreign policy.We can work out a better policy, and I basically agree with the government's attitude towards the Tibet issue - we will never allow these people to use this kind of reason to divide our country.Take Sharon Stone's turmoil as an example. Personally, I am very pleased with the unity of our people and the government, and I think this is our rare unity. What Sharon Stone did made most Chinese feel puzzled and indignant. Although she apologized publicly afterwards, many Chinese expressed that they could not forgive her behavior.Some people changed her name directly to "Sharon Stone", and some people left messages on the Internet saying, "It is said that Sharon Stone is a woman with a high IQ, but her remarks did not reflect it. On the contrary, I think she is extremely stupid, as a Chinese, I will not be interested in her movies!" "Resolutely resist, and I will never watch her movies again in this life!" Many foreign media also expressed their disapproval of her statement and made public criticize.From this incident, we also clearly see that the communication between China and the world does not happen overnight.China is eager to be noticed by the world, and even more eager to be understood by the world.
Let me tell you again that the Wenchuan Earthquake was a turning point in the whole incident.Where is the turning point?Openly allow foreign journalists to freely enter Sichuan for reporting.At this juncture, foreign reporters really told Westerners through their own documentaries that the love of the Chinese people has never been shown before.And please note that after the Wenchuan Earthquake, the Western media’s criticism of China suddenly decreased a lot, including that they no longer talked about the Tibet issue, because they have gradually realized what the Chinese culture is. So here I would like to ask readers, what is Chinese culture?Have you ever thought that the Chinese nation is a nation full of great love?I'm afraid not.Speaking of the Chinese, you may think of everything, but it has nothing to do with great love, and you don't even think that our Chinese nation is a loving nation.But the Wenchuan Earthquake changed everything, especially when I read the Western media reports, I was really moved.Including a teacher who protected four students under his podium during a major earthquake, then hugged them with both hands, and was hit to death himself.You may say that this is an example, but it is not. There are many such examples.For example, a female teacher who teaches English is the same, holding three children in her arms, and all three children survived, but she sacrificed herself.For another example, wasn't Dujiangyan also affected by the disaster, and many taxis from Chengdu went there to carry out various rescues. These are the voluntary spirit of great love that we Chinese have spontaneously, and this spirit of the Chinese has never taken root in the hearts of Westerners in the past.Therefore, Westerners think that we are a non-emotional and caring people, and that we are suppressing Tibet.They criticize China's Tibet policy with the Tibet complex derived from "Lost Horizon".And if we pay attention, we will find that after the Wenchuan Earthquake, at least 70% of the Western media's criticism of China's Tibet policy and criticism of the Beijing Olympics dropped.Why?Because the Chinese showed a cultural characteristic that had never happened before in this Wenchuan Earthquake.Westerners have discovered that the Chinese are such a compassionate and loving nation, which is really touching. This change is huge.Because I live in Hong Kong myself, I have a lot of feelings. What happened before May 2008 and what happened after May are completely different.And at this moment, when we look back at what we Chinese have done, we will have a new feeling.For example, do you know where the charity capital of the world is?It is our Hong Kong in China.Take the tsunami in Indonesia as an example. Hong Kong people donated the most money per capita in the world - 700 yuan, which even the Americans couldn't do.Then when these Western media reporters came back and dug up the news, they found that Hong Kong people not only did their best to help the victims of the Wenchuan Earthquake, but also donated so much money to help disasters in other countries. This is an expression of great love. Looking at Taiwan again, during Chen Shui-bian's administration, the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland was not very good, and at the same time, cross-strait relations remained relatively sensitive after Chen Shui-bian stepped down.But even in this case, once we have a major earthquake, what do you think our compatriots in Taiwan will do?Immediately sent a rescue team to Wenchuan, needless to say donating money, and even held a TV charity show.Have you seen that, what have our Taiwan compatriots and Hong Kong compatriots shown?It is a selfless love.Readers, believe it or not, this is the first time the whole world has felt the selfless love of our Chinese people. Although it is sad to say this, it is indeed the first time. In the past, the whole world always believed that China was a ruthless big man with no love in his heart, but all these misunderstandings, as well as their feelings for Tibet, disappeared with the occurrence of the Wenchuan Earthquake.The whole world has discovered that the Chinese nation is a nation full of compassion and great love. This is what Westerners see today.Because of this change, the Olympic Games have been run more smoothly, and the Tibet issue has become less acute, because we have changed the world's perception of us.