Second Coming?

After watching Golden Gates, Pro. Lin points out that we all have been taught to be admire foreigners and their cultures especially in Western style. We wish to be loved by the oppressor somehow and uncounsciously appreciate their appearance, way of talk and "graceful" behavior. This is true, and I believe it as far as I'm concerned since I'm the one who wish to be like that way. So terrible, to learn English ability so hard ever since we were only children, facing the pressure every single day, to be anxious about the unsatisfied grades, etc. Who makes this rule anyway? Exactly, no one. And we are all eager to pursue the "dream" in our ideality. We thank for the oppressor by providing our broken English and they never would like to learn Chinese or other second language at all, showing their ignorance to the local culture instead of paying more attention to them. Consider this, what if there is another James Joyce in this world and writes about the same style of the ironical book, Dubliners?

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