A couple of days after the Opening Ceremony I was talking to my mom (and here), and what she said to me made me realize that just the Opening Ceremony made the Olympics a huge success for China. Here's the paraphrase:
It was so beautiful. It made me and your father, people who grew up in a time thinking that China was some mysterious, scary, dangerous Communist place, realize that it is no longer so. I want to travel there now, I want to see China and its people.If this sort of thinking was widespread, then I think it would be hard for China to ask for more of the Olympics than completely reshaping the image that a couple of reasonable middle-aged American held of China.
2 comments:
Well, most of the Chinese think that Opening Ceremony much better than their imagination, especially the 29 footsteps by fireworks, that is my favoriter part.
Your Blog's name is interesting and I like.不经一事，不长一智 just we always said 吃一堑，长一智。
Mean well I noticed that you quoted "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."Sadly speaking, in China, logic is more popular in law school.
I hadn't heard 吃一堑，长一智 before. I like it a lot, it has a bit more playful character than 不经一事，不长一智.
As a third branch of the government with common law and stare decisis, the US judicial system is often called upon to make decisions that will have huge effects upon the country. Logic can only go so far in this. Judges must make decisions based on the times. A good example is that tort law, especially against railroad and manufacturing companies in the late 19th early 20th century was severely limited because judges thought this would help industry expand. As the US became more industrially mature, judges began allowing more aggressive lawsuits against industry. The great judges are the ones who made the right choices: Holmes, Cardozo, Hand, Traynor.
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