It is a bit sick for me to be reading opinions where certain Chinese bloggers felt insecure and something must be wrong with China if they haven’t received any foreign validation of their achievements.

What it simply meant is that China hasn’t exceled based on Standards of the West. You have not become like Western people. But Western standards are not absolute standard. China always has its own standards.

I will give an example. In Malaysia, we have a fruit. It is called the Durian. Have you seen a durian? You can click here: http://www.timwu.org/durian.JPG if you don’t know what fruit I am talking about.

It is a very popular fruit. People in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam love this fruit. We consider it the King of all Fruits. We find it very very very tasty and delicious. The best if not one of the best fruits in the world according to us.

When we try to give the Durian to foreigners, they could not even stand next to this fruit. To them, this fruit smell like sewage. When they eat it that is if they can even put it into their mouth, they may spit it out. Some will take one or two bites, and then enough. They don’t want anymore. To them it is not at all tasty or delicious.

So here we have 1 fruit, the Durian. For a group of people, the Malaysians, they think this is the tastiest fruit of all. For another group of people, the Westerners, they think eating this fruit is the equivalent of eating shit.

Is there then something wrong with Malaysians or is it simply because the environment that we grew up in, cultivated different standards?

They hey days of Nobel Prizes are over. When men like Albert Einstein was winning them, it really did mean something about personal achievement. Today, many scientists who win them felt that they have simply be singled out of a larger group of scientists to receive that prize. A lot of scientific research today are team work based, but the Nobel awards to individuals giving the false impression that they single handedly discovered something.

And when people like Mikhail Gorbachov wins the prize, quite clearly, the prize is awarded to those who help mould the world into the Western ideal. In other words, the Communist party of China will never win the Nobel Peace Prize for poverty reduction, but Wang Dan would have won the Nobel Peace Prize if he succeeded in disintegrating China in 1989.