Re: Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen

["Will Massey" <will@netpath.net>]

I see,
Thanks for pointing that out.

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From: Joe Brennan <jbren1@optonline.net>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen


> > Anyway, YSK is targetting a specific group - Westerners that
> > fear China - and not a race. He makes a generalization by citing the
head
> of
> > the
> > American sino-phobe group.
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> But it's based on a wrong interpretation in his original note. Rusk wasn't
> mis or archaically pronouncing "Beijing" as "Peking" to be annoying*  Rusk
> was using another name: Peiping, for a specific political reason, to show
> solidarity with the Nationalists whose name for the city that was at the
> time. Anway saying anti-Chinese Communism made Rusk a "sino-phobe" is
> anachronistic at best. Anti communists wanted to view the communist
victory
> as undoable, and "Peiping" was meant to symbolize that. A statement about
> Chinese politics that is, not about China as a whole much less Chinese.
It's
> actually topical to US attitudes Sino-US, KW I think; highly misleading
> statement as originally made by YSK, and describing US anti-communists as
> "sino phobes" literally true maybe, ("feared") but a bit misleading too
IMO.
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> Joe
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> *Beijing not even the accepted name then. Now, some people nowadays *do*
say
> Peking just to be annoying and show they don't have to follow anybody's
> conventions. One would just sound like a cretan to say "Peking" in a
modern
> international business setting. But  maybe modern business settings are
for
> weenies, so for those who want to say Peking: good luck and be well!
>
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> From: "Will Massey" <will@netpath.net>
> To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen
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