On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > me: >> I don't think that members of the Chinese elite care about "national >> prestige" except to the extent that it increases their power and >> strengthens their hold on it. > > Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote: >> Are you saying that the "Chinese elite" is exactly the same as every other >> ruling "elite" in the history of the world? > > yup.
Surely there are cultural differences? Someone like Lloyd "God's work" Blankfein seems quite happy to damage the US economy, humiliate the Federal government etc to increase his personal profits. I get the impression that the Chinese elite are much less likely to do anything to blemish their national glory for individual motives (or maybe the individual incentives in the CCP are set up that way...) Of course it is another story that "national glory" has nothing to do with the well-being of the people... -raghu. -- Do unto others BEFORE they do unto you! _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
