Changing China

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

From Qipao to mini skirts, from mantou to burgers, from Mao's slogans to Karoke, and from opera to pop music, Chinese youth have transformed China into ways that was unimaginable 30 years back. No one among the younger lot is interested in listening to ideological brain washing and all those calls for democracy movement making waves in 1989 have been dumbed in history books. What is now instilled in the younger generation is a new pop culture, where money rules all games and sex is the bottomline. Today's new generation is a bit reluctant to take things the way they are and a new revolution is changing China. Hu Jintao's 'Honour and Disgrace' are not what the present generation is interested, but shows more love for Da Vinci code. Is it that China is taking on a western culture? The answer is surely "NO". Chinese youth are making their own brand of culture with a tinch of Chinese characteristics.

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