That's interesting, and very true, because at our family reunion last year my little brother was the dog's bollocks throughout the entire affair and I was just "Oh, look how you've grown! Have a cookie." Furthermore, my grandmother is the most submissive person I know.
I don't know about crediitng Mao with the bridging of the gap between sexes ... I'm interested as to why you say that. I wouldn't have called Mao's policies entirely unilateral - instead of putting everyone on the same level, it had a bit of a seesaw effect. For instance, my father was the head of his class until the Cultural Revolution, and then selections for the Red Guard started and he didn't get in til the very end because he was class president and not a peasant. Mao was primarily for the proletariat - not so much for evening things out as for having the working class prevail. I think this has had the detrimental effect of causing suspicion and a fierce competition between people in China - they don't often trust strangers, aren't friendly to anyone but people they know.
That's what I've gleaned through exposure, anyway, may or may not be accurate.
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Date: 2004-04-27 08:21 pm (UTC)I don't know about crediitng Mao with the bridging of the gap between sexes ... I'm interested as to why you say that. I wouldn't have called Mao's policies entirely unilateral - instead of putting everyone on the same level, it had a bit of a seesaw effect. For instance, my father was the head of his class until the Cultural Revolution, and then selections for the Red Guard started and he didn't get in til the very end because he was class president and not a peasant. Mao was primarily for the proletariat - not so much for evening things out as for having the working class prevail. I think this has had the detrimental effect of causing suspicion and a fierce competition between people in China - they don't often trust strangers, aren't friendly to anyone but people they know.
That's what I've gleaned through exposure, anyway, may or may not be accurate.