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A reader forwarded us the internet address of a craftedly designed internet teashop in Shanghai to tell us that they have copied materials from the Tea Guardian and use in theirs. They actually just copy pasted some of our text in theirs. A lot of theirs seem to have appeared somewhere else too.
Firstly, I am so very happy that a reader take the trouble to recognise that and then e-mail to tip us. Readers are what make us feel empowered. More so readers who cares. Thank you. This from the bottom of my heart.The key message I want write about in this posting, however, is with the attitude of people who create things in Mainland China. How I wish all people who create things have some bottom-line in the morality of using other people’s materials. Sadly, all over the Mainland, in all trade, throughout all walks of life, copying from others is shamelessly practiced everyday.Whether it is a certification, a diploma, a dissertation for college graduation or PhD, a news article, a book (any book), a site, a blog or even an advertising, copying from someone else is the way to go.It is troubling me not so much to see my text, concepts and unique way of name translation being borrowed for use without even an acknowledgement, I see the problems in this country of over a billion people: they are really sick.They are so sick that they don’t even bother to respect themselves. They don’t feel troubled by the fact that they have collectively part-take in the destruction of the creditability of their own country. They boldly come out to declare themselves as a proud nation of intellectual thieves.That is another reason why people in Hong Kong are so reluctant to be labelled as Chinese. We’d like to be recognised as Hong Kong Chinese. Not that copying does not exist here. Nor crimes such as stealing. The difference is that they are still seen as shameful things to do, crimes, if not sins.The strongest reason that I feel so sad in seeing more of such crime is that a country of people crippling themselves of the ability to create for themselves and have to rely on stealing from others. Much as a thief losing the ability to produce goods for a living after relying on stealing goods from others, intellectual thieves lose their intellectual creative ability. So true in seeing a country whose media are only parrots for government agencies or the rich and powerful, its people forcing themselves to negate justice and righteousness, seizing on the rights of the others to satisfy their own wants.Sadly this is the country where my root is, but the soil so decayed and full of pests. How I wish my tiniest efforts in promoting telling reality and truth in tea can influence some change in it. Just let me see in this humongous population a small resemblance of the Chinese inheritances that I have been brought up with. The righteousness, empathy, and political wisdom of the old; the pursuit for truth, liberation and independence of the classic philosophers… The China once that was Shangri-La has no tiniest reflection of the corrupted culture that is now.I am so blessed that I was born here in Hong Kong. So sad that so many people losing their souls. -
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Mainland China is a big mix of good and bad, a society full of contradictions, and with little rule of law. Eventually it will change, but those things take time. I wouldn’t worry about this copycat site, and I don’t think they can really cause any damage. If anything, having a copycat is just an indication that Tea Guardian is a success. No one bothers counterfeiting unless the original has real value.
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Counterfeiting and copyrights infringement happen everywhere, but it has been so epidemic in China that people there seem to think that these were not crimes. This is nothing about cultural tradition but about an extremely serious social condition that IS becoming a cultural pattern for a people. This is the problem.
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Yes, any society is a mix of good and bad, but it is the prevalent behaviour that defines the culture of the time. The general lack of morality and self-justification of crimes in the Mainland is beyond epidemic level. They are more common than colds and flus. The horrifying incident of Xiao Yue Yue a couple of months ago in Foshan Guangdong, if you have heard about it, is a truthful reflection of what I said: 18 individuals walked passed a two year old knocked down by a van could be ignoring the dying little girl. Some just stepped over, one even rolled over with his van, twice. There maybe a thousand reasons that one can tell to justify this cold-blooded collective behaviour, and this is not the only incident happening in the past few months that people just ignore the others, but the condition is clear: there is no morality, no feelings for others in this single most massive population on Earth.
It is the prevalent social behaviour that marks the fault of a culture. The greatness of the dissidents or the scavenger old lady who attempted to save Xiao Yue Yue, or the other low profile good people in the Mainland that are the minority are not going to bring about the change you wish for, until a momentum of social behaviourial change is set. Until that day, I am not optimistic about the rotting culture that is contemporary Mainland. -
“Heaven is to the left, Guangdong is to the right.” I think there is an old saying like that…
In Zhejiang as well, though, I saw an old woman who had just been hit by a car while she was riding her bike. She was laying in the street crying, with a little blood coming down from her forehead. Nobody really did anything to intervene, and just a few people watched. Eventually an ambulance came by, but people seemed more or less unconcerned by the whole thing. I’m not sure if they were afraid to help, or if they just thought it had nothing to do with them? A number of such cases have been big news items in the last few years.
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This is not just about Guangdong, but the whole China. The driver who ran down the girl was not a Guangdong native, neither was the second driver. The scavenger lady was. The problem is not regional, it is “epidemic”. For those who are interested here is a clipping; it’s in Cantonese voice over, coz it’s broadcasted in HK, and less “harmonized” by the “communist”:
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