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Chinese cultural ignorance meets American arrogance
The Chinese hosts' ignorance of their guests' customs was quite incredible--imagine visiting Indian Hindus being served beef steaks. This to me was the real story here, but the author chose instead to embarrass himself by demonstrating his cultural arrogance (disingenuously perhaps--in the service of inflammatory journalism). It is not our place to campaign for Chinese people to cease eating dogs and cats. Yes we ought to attempt to raise their consciousness with respect to animal treatment and humane killing. Returning to the Indian Hindu example, I haven't seen many Indians making waves and clamoring for Americans to stop eating cows.