Word: motherland
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...producing a tiny Chinese flag?an iconic image that would soon be broadcast to 1.3 billion fellow citizens back home. The mission-control room outside Beijing burst into cheers, already buoyed by a message from President Hu Jintao who announced that the liftoff was "the glory of our great motherland." Then, Yang fished around and produced another flag, this time a pale blue one bearing the emblem of the United Nations, and held it up beside the red Chinese ensign...
...four occasions. The reason for China's rush may be a political imperative to blast off on-or near-the Oct. 1 National Day. A successful flight will likely stoke the country's growing patriotic fervor. The celebrations could rival those that accompanied Hong Kong's return to the motherland in 1997 or China's selection two years ago to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, when Beijingers thronged Tiananmen Square to celebrate their national ascendancy. "If it succeeds, expect a sudden propaganda campaign to instill feelings of patriotism and nationalism and unite the people around new national heroes," says political...
...Foreign Ministry spokesman said he was sure that most people in Hong Kong "will support the government." A harsher editorial in the Hong Kong edition of the state-run China Daily said people opposed to the Article 23 legislation were responsible for "a treacherous act against their motherland...
Second, be humble. True patriotism is not blind to the sins of one’s motherland, but demands a high standard of justice. Therefore, America should issue a sincere mea culpa when it has hurt others either by intention or accident. Admitting one’s own faults lessens hypocrisy, disarms critics and allows others to similarly repent. Moreover, America’s legitimacy in correcting others is stronger if it is first willing to acknowledge and forsake its own sins...
...constantly resembling Cinemax at three in the morning. Well, I learned that it is indeed like that in continental Europe, but the daytime soft-core pornography never crossed the English Channel. Lest we forget, we Americans inherited all our Victorian notions of sexual repression from the motherland...