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Jan 05 2009

China learns a lesson from Japan in pornography

Published by tuannguyen under Opinion Edit This

Japan has been rising its power as the world domination on technology, and also productions in porn contents. It hits hard on Japanese culture.

As porn is widely popular in Japan, it leads to high rate of divorce giving way to personal crisis and increase of crime. The government of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is out of the game. It has no right to intervene to this profitable but harmful industry. Since culture is the foundation of a civilization, the breakdown of good traditions may lead to chaos of a nation.

China takes it shrewdly. From the begin of 2009, the Communist party is launching a Internet porn crusade aiming to purify online content. Again, this is what I like about the Communist. Although the leaders may have the access to stuff that are banned wisely, but for the whole society, citizens don’t have to right to own and use harmful items. The party also has the power to halt any activity that can damages the society and the cultural traditions.

Without pornography, personal stability and family structure can be put in order preventing the rise of crime rate and psychological abandon on children.

I give my applause for the Communist efforts so that one they we have to practice this action from China.

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Jan 05 2009

What can the $300b tax cut do?

Published by tuannguyen under Opinion Edit This

Obama has just proposed a $300b tax cut on individuals and businesses aiming to stimulate the economy.

What can it do?

Presidents have been spending government budget to cut tax just to win vote and trust from citizens. Ronald Reagan was an example; while back to 8 years ago, Mr. Bush enact an $1.35 trillions tax cut plan for 10 years, which became the largest amount in the history. While, these leaders have been put America more and more in debt. Although, people have more money to spend and to enjoy, the whole America is totally in debt and loosing its power to other nations. To be honest, we are in $10 trillions debt with no solution to end it. It is growing more and more.

To me, the tax cut doesn’t solve the problem, while worsen it. It is the consumerism of Americans that creates more and more debt. We do have problem with spending. We do buy stuff we don’t need. And we do buy properties that we can’t afford. Thanks to the credit system that has been making our lives easier; but, the whole nation is going down with our recognitions. Guess what, with the cash left out from the tax cut, we don’t save but spend it. That means, no matter how much we own, we spend it all. Therefore, the tax cut might stimulate the nation for a while, but as a whole, it just creates more and more debts. Because, America doesn’t produce products, but China and India do. The more we buy, the more we gonna owe them.

All we can do it using propaganda and education to urge Americans not to spend profligately but to save and to live more spiritually.

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Jan 03 2009

This depression - a sad story of my family

Published by tuannguyen under Opinion Edit This

My uncle has just been laid off.

Although as a man I am, I couldn’t keep my tear from falling for the sad story.

His family has four gorgeous daughters, and his wife is extremely beautiful. He works for the airplane company designing stuff, his wife owns a jewelry store. He has lost his job, and his wife sells none everyday comparing with hundreds per day last year.

I, writing this blog, have to eat package noodle every day, as nobody can support me and I couldn’t support myself.

This time, the come back of 1930 Depression with the very same reason is going to submerge Americans in starvation and lead to the dispossession of its power.

Is capitalism the answer to the wealth or just a few temporary lucks that has been leading America to the former glory? I doubt.

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Jan 03 2009

Psychology: Passion + Logic = the foundation of success

Published by tuannguyen under Ideas Edit This

I’ve been spending for many years wondering about human mind. There is no motivation in that, it is just my nature, something that drives my life in a certain interesting direction. Today, I have consumed all the previous thoughts in the past to come up with a fact. A fine good one. The two core factors that make people suceed in this hierarchial society are one’s logic and passion. We need a logical thinking process in order to figure out a problem or to invent a new truth while a strong passion motivates us to stand up and fight for it.

Ironically, many parents have been taking kids to good schools hoping for their kids’ bright future. Schools are just a part of sucess, a big part actually. However, we should know what is in students’ mind when they are attending schools. There is a fact that, schools don’t teach us these two core elements of sucess. What schools teach us are knowledge, as I dub it “language“.

So why can knowledge be language, then? Obviously, liturature is a language where we use words to transmit our logical messages. Math and computer programing are also languages as numbers are characters used to communicate. Such more complex things are also languages in which are proven already such as “relativity theory” of Einstein or the word “New Deal” implying the whole national reforming program of Franklin Roosevelt. More interesting, martial art is also a language where fighter use the movements of the body to communicate with the oppononet to express his emotion and logic, and the winner has more prudent attack and defense strategies.

So what we use language for? To communicate is the answer. You learn languages to transmit your logical process and order with a result that people need and expect. History proved it. Edison used the language of science to invent the lamp with his amazing logic and an unlimited passion which motivated him to try hundreds of kinds of metal wires.

We go to school to study language, while logic and passion can be trained by yourselves.

Sometimes we have to use logic to learn a language, and once it is absorbed into your brain, that result becomes a term of a languge in which you are dovoting in, because we don’t have to use logic to figure that result out again.

In this way, the knowledge of language represents the level of one person in which can be seen in his title such as doctor, lawyer, professor or actor. He masters his language. However, we sometimes see sucessfull lawyers or politicians on the TV while there are still somebody find a hard time to seek for job with PhDs on their hands, that is because there is a huge gap between their logic and passion.

You (logic + passion + laguange) –> communicate –> hierarchial society

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Dec 31 2008

How the world celebrate New Year

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It is pretty funny that the Western culture is always a reverse of the Eastern one.

To prove this, I take an example of New Year and Christmas. As you know, in here, America, we spend Christmas time for family that most at home, while New Year to go out on the street. It is different with Eastern culture. There, they celebrate Christmas with friends on the crowded avenues while stay at home with family during the Lunar New Year.

It all can be explained by taking a look on religion. In the West, we worship Jesus, there for the birth of Jesus is important. While in the East, they worship the physical sun (God) and new year is a fresh new start of the earth round, it is meaningful to the East.

And everything significant will be celebrated with families.

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Dec 31 2008

The crisis of American shallow knowledge but arrogance

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I have just stumbled on the Internet and found this sh*t. Many thoughts mix in my opinion.

First of all, our society really has some problems with education. As Asians worship educators and learners, we tend to worship businessmen and entertainers followed by consumerism. Therefore, we don’t like to have fun rather than understand the world and functions of mind. Americans are weak in this side.

Take a look as this statistic:
Income comparision by race

That is what I’m talking about. With the underestimation of education, white American is beginning to lack behind and let Asian to rise with their wisdom. And yet, without knowledge of human mind, we can’t teach and guide our own children. Let’s go back to school guys, don’t enjoy more fun and spend more money on sh*t we don’t need, man. It is all going down if we don’t have deep understanding about the world and ourselves.

The second thought is that, not all Americans are stupid like in the video. I felt insulted, thou. But, after all, we do have problems with this side of the topic. And the whole country is going down with it.

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Dec 30 2008

The world is still transforming

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I have just got the Sony PRS-700 today, and I am absolutely excited having it. Thus, it strike on my mind alarming that our physical world is step-by-step transforming into a digital one.

Nowadays, everything is possible as our tasks are all packed in small little devices that we call “gadgets.” Work has been being brought into small mobile laptops and delivered to mobile phones. In the very close future, tons of books and papers will be compressed into a little device so call “ebook readers.” The one I’m having is quite impressive. You can touch on the screen and do many tasks as you wish such as turn the page, highlight or even search words and terms. The Reader also has backlight so that you can read in a dark room. Worthily, this $400 reader, which sounds kinda expensive, but can be balanced up with free newspaper download on the internet.

As natural, new device begins new battles on the market. 30 years ago, Microsoft and Apple was fighting with small firms to dominate the consumers. Today, many reading devices with e-ink technology are being produced include Amazon Kindle, Irex Iliad and Plastic Reading from Logic Plastic coming this January. No one seems to dominate this chaos game yet, as the Green Revolution is quite new, Amazon and Kindle is leading but meeting many threats.

Last word, I’m very happy to see these stuff coming out to the market in which way can save forests and space.

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Dec 28 2008

My impression on Obama keeping his eyes on Gaza

Published by tuannguyen under Opinion Edit This

Announcing “there is only one president at a time,” and he is now George Bush, Obama still has his own responsibility for the nation and his later president seat.

It is the tension in the messy Middle East that has been catching attention of this elect-president. Although, there is nothing he can do with the conflict at this time, but Obama is still monitoring this area and keeping track death tolls and stories from Gaza. Last Saturday, he had a meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about the violence the Gaza strips. Thus, he usually initiated call to this lady to ask for information of the tension.

Obama’s purpose on this is that he want to get the full image of the issue by the time he get into the White House on 20 January. The more I hear about Obama, the more I feel impressive and trust in this man. He always has plan, he always look further and he is always sober. That is the man who we need for this going down state of our nation.

However, I’m seeking to understand why conflicts locate at Gaza. Anyone who knows please reply a comment. Thanks.

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Dec 26 2008

Can Communism helps nations to reach the wealth?

Published by tuannguyen under Ideas Edit This

Yes, we can. National ideologies are just like our human personalitires. Sucess of each is that how one can reach his goals of life. Since the purpose of Communism and Capitialism are different, each has its own way to claim the wealth.

Oddly, Communism was created by Lenin in Russia, but it has the same traits as the ancient China’s imperial system. The Chinese has been familiar with this idea for 3000 years, which way explains the do-so-well economy of the modern China under the Mao version of Communism. Let me reveal to you the ancient Cathay’s prosperity to understand more about the commune system.

While the US with Captalism forming the pop culture worships wealthy investors and entertainment talents, the society of ancient China respected the wise and educated people. Actually, they didn’t trust who owned much, but sought for men who were willing to solve people’s relationship tension, helping other to overcome their problems and guiding them to reach greater spiritual lives of happiness. Don’t get me wrong, here. This kind of lifestyle was not an excuse for poverty at all. Instead, China had been the richest civilization before the political crisis in 18th century. They owned “gadgets” and enjoyed novel industry that other nations couldn’t catch up with. The empire also had fierce armies with great weapons and shrewd scholars who mastered strategies and tactics. Regardless how rich they were, the China society looked down on money. The man who reach the top of the social ladder is the one who worked for the imperial and spent time using his educated wisdom to seek for the solution, theories and projects that help the nation to soar. It was not how much he owned to be recognized, but the record of how much he delivered to the community was the factor that counted.

Accusing Communism for years, American hasn’t understand bit of the sytem and the culture. The point of Capitalism is to accumulate for individual while Communism people try to deliver to the community. Children under this government system must be educated to share with other and work for the goodness of the nation. That is the only way to help a Communism nation sucess. The failure of former Communist nations was because of their lack of understanding in Communist, while China leaders understand its similarity with their former ancient system and have been making good use on it.

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Dec 25 2008

This is a sad Christmas

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Christmas Eve, I smiled, though. As family got together, I was happy. But I worry for my uncles, my parents and other people out there on the street submerged in layers of snow, too.

Yes, it is a sad Christmas to the whole America. Oregon is facing the peak of quicked weather with the first time snow storm since 1800s, thus cities in this state suffered electricity cut for weeks. Imagine how you live, eat and work with this situation. It is exactly like living in prison cells.

But, the ones I worry the most are my uncles and parents. During the time we cheer for the holiday (a little bit disappointed with less valuable gifts,) they have to smile with a tacit irritation of paying debt and seeking for jobs. Some say this Christmas is a spirtual one as family member give each other a romantic massage rather than an expensive ring set; that sounds good, but harm the economy. Christmas sell this year dropped from $556 million last year down to  $485 million this year. Those who has invested stock in these retail companies have lost part of their investment. Thus, failure in sell might lead to greater unemployment in order to cut expense.

Well, this Christmas is cold and dim, but I hope everyone seek for a gift in their heart healing for the crisis they have been suffered. Let’s love unconditionally.

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