I changed accounts.
#27: Aug 19th 2011 at 8:04:29 AM
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I don't think our politicians can really take any kind of moral high ground here...
This guy is cool. All of them, though? Rubbish.
I am now known as Flyboy.
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Part of it is also because in the US, if you come across as being pampered and pompous, you lose the respect of the people. In China, you're expected to be pampered and pompous so nobody is terribly surprised when you are.