Ritu Ko wrote:
>
>> Believe me, they *can't* say their opinion "openly,
>> honestly and without any fear of ridicule" as long as
>> the PRC is a dictatorship. Brazil was a harsh
>> dictatoship from 1964-1980, and br citizens *never*
>> said their opinions "openly, honestly and without any
>> fear of ridicule".
>
>Not even in another country, in a college dormitory, in a general discussion
>lasting for hours and covering all sorts of topics?
>
The self-censorship habits are hard to suppress. It's a
survival mechanism - and it might be worse when it
passes from father to son for uncountable generations,
since, AFAIK, China has never had any democratic form
of g*vernment [the closest thing being an Anarchy just
before Mao seized power]
>I cannot be sure, but I thought that they said what they thought and felt. I
>could easily be wrong - never really claimed to be omniscient.
>:o)
>
Of course *I* can't say that they weren't saying what they
thought, but I must point that there is this possibility based on
my experience
Alberto Monteiro
