Chapter 10

The way that Dodson describes the Chinese culture is one of a self motivating feeling of being victimized.  He explained how the media there divides the broadcasts into sections that portray the past, where things went wrong and at the conclusion of the mini series there is a sense of success and that the Chinese did not lose anything and came out triumphant.  He explained how the propaganda propels itself and and makes the Chinese generate a hate to the outside world.  The way the Chinese make the country feel like it’s the victim in a lot of different situations, allows for the anger to be generated easily in the culture and exploded on any individual that they believe is a traitor of the country, like the example he used of the foreign exchange student that was hunted down by the Human Flesh Search.  What he portrayed through the examples was a sort of communal mindset that rallies all of the Chinese together.  I do think how Dodson addressed this was good as he used many examples.  Based on the limit of information that the Chinese government has set up, I think that Dodson has done a great job with the amount of information that he has collected and written about.  The only other way to question it, would be to actually live in CHina for a while and learn about the culture and the language to fully submerge ones self in the mindset of the area.