Its national day tomorrow. yay! so fun.... hur hur. here's is my wish for NDP this year: I wish everybody would stop eating shark's fin soup and bird's nest soup. i'm not an activist. Its just that i find it really dumb to pay so much money for something that is totally worthless in terms of nutrition. we like shark's fin soup because of the soup, not the shark's fin! shark's fin is cartilage. which is like semi solid plastic. the whole thing tastes nice because of the soup and the crabmeat in it. think about that. bird's nest is made from the saliva of the swallows who nest in the high walls of caves. similarly, bird's nest soup is nice because of the SOUP! its sweet, and taste good. children like it. they grow up liking it. its the same case with sweets. we grow up associating the bird nest as something sweet, which in reality has no taste at all on its own. its true that saliva contains proteins, but its negligable since its already dried up. we pay so much money for these things. yeah sure, its part of our chinese culture. its tradition you would shout. but i think its dumb. i think its an insult on our judgement. tradition is something dead, something invented by humans. humans give value to things. but as humans too, we evolve and become more intelligent, more learned. and there are some things we have to change as we evolve. comments? Savant at 8/08/2005 10:25:00 pm ;
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shark-evangelists of the world unit!! haha.. agreed.. besides it being a complete insult to our better judgement, it causes catastrophic ecological problems as well.. dead sharks and nestless swallows.. say 'no' to sharks fin, and please guys, stop eating bird spit.. u want i can donate my phlegm..
i agree abt the sharks and stuff
but i disagree with your view on tradition anyway, if that's the case you shouldn't be differentiated from japanese or indians or whites. even shanghainese from hokkiens
I think you're a tad too quick to dismiss the value of tradition and its key function in preserving the continued community identity. It provides for a sense of continuity. Amongst other things, tradition is also the social glue that binds communities together in a viable and functional way. For example, take legal traditions encoded into laws. Take cultural norms that are in turn transformed into social values.
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By the same turn of logic you use...all things are given value by humans. Value is and of itself a social construct determined by a variety of factors...all with the human being at its point of origin. That we need to evolve or progress if you will is a biological imperative. What direction we do so is often a relative contention. How have you been mate? Fingers doing alright? # posted by
 : 19 August, 2005 10:19
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