Originally Posted by ned kelly

sherman, methinks you do protest too much!

it's a rather clever ( if the other person doesn't see it ) way of winning an argument.....by saying you are hurting chinese pride or face in raising this criticism you try to stop the argument there, instead of actually addressing what the other person is saying. as valid as their points are.

i've always wondered about "face" in asia....don't western people have "face" too? no?

chalk it up as another cultural cliche maybe, like asian people don't value life as much as western people do ( which i think is rubbish also )