I heard about this story a while back as well. It's pathetic. You know in this world we live in we have so many people crying victim to the big bad western countries and how imperialistic and non-ethical they are when it is most likely that the people who are complaining themselves are the lying, cheating scumbags who want what they think is their "fair share". I think it's fair to point out that cases like this cannot only happen in china, but in many countries in asia as well. You need to tell anyone who tells you that you are too greedy or too racist to go and look in the mirror, for if we only cared about money we would have never left our own countries. If we really were racist we would not have taken the time to go and make less money somewhere else. Tell anyone who decides to give you shyte due to you being a westerner to p*ss off.

Unfortunately, the good parts of a traditional confucian society such as providing charity for those less fortunate, protecting the natural beauty/sanctity of the environment, being honorable towards your family name by respecting the spirits of your ancestors and knowing who they were, as well as honoring friendship are slowly but surely being marginalized. All of the bad things from traditional society (social oppression, anti-intellectualism by the less educated, elitism and discrimination from the better educated, and excessive ignorance on all levels including excessive judgementalism on things not known) have been kept under different veils of saving face, social progression, even culture. The idea of communism has been nothing more than to increase the corrupt cultural aspects of the traditional society while making an excuse to behave ruthlessly as well as promoting styles of living that overemphasize avarice and lust. The end of the idea of promoting the growth of the perfect example of what a "real chinese" is like as encouraged by the vast spoken majority of chinese is nothing but that of a shallow, jaded, pitiful character who feigns collectivism in others but promoting the utmost selfishness in the individual within his/her soul. It seems as if people who are willing to go against this en masse haven't been born yet.