After reading Dodson’s first chapter, I really felt I was educated
a lot about Chinese culture. I found it incredibly interesting that China’s
infatuation with the Internet is just as strong as it is here in the United
States. With the amount of U.S. citizens that sit on their computers all day, I
did not think it was possible for another country to generate statistics higher
than ours. I enjoyed reading all the stats and percentages of Chinese citizens
and the Internet. The most interesting statistic was that almost one third of
Chinese citizens feel like someone else on the Internet, or an escape called “second-lifers”. It is 4 percent in the U.S., but 24 percent
in China. Overall, I found myself very shocked by some of the information I was
reading.
I have studied China many times in high school, but I guess
I have not been exposed to China today, and the rule that the government possesses
over today’s technology and media such as the Internet. I was beyond myself,
finding out that government has such a high power and control that they blocked
specific sites from the Internet, as well as pornography. I have grown up in a
world where absolutely nothing is off limits on the Internet. The Internet has
become the one place that nearly no one can touch. I can’t imagine having
government regulating what I look up on the Internet. While I understand why
the Chinese government might want to block pornography as a whole, I don’t
think it is fair or just to do so. People should have the right to search what
they want on the Internet, as long as it doesn’t effect or hurt others.
Dodson’s method of putting this chapter together was a bit
different from books I normally read. They way he broke the chapter up into
little subcategories with their own titles made me think I was reading more of
an essay than a novel. However, I still felt the same connection to the words
as I would in a regularly organized book.
Jordyn Hunter
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