Opening Doors to Chinese Minds

President Franklin D Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on the 19th February 1942 and about 120,000 Japanese Americans were rounded up and interned in military camps during WW 2.

The key word that sealed the fate of the Order was "INSCRUTABLE". No evidence was available at that time that could prove that the Japanese Americans posed a threat or danger to America. The White House discussions justified that the Japanese could be planning something, but because they were viewed as inscrutable by the Americans, it was felt safer to lock them up.

No such concerns were discussed about German Americans or Italian Americans though America was also at war with Germany and Italy at that time. 

Inscrutable, that's how the West sees us, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc. In this sense it is quite clear that I am an unusual Chinese. In my posts so far, I have already clumsily spilled out so many secrets.

Pai Gow when fully revealed and explained will begin to open doors to the Chinese Mind.

In my post "Global Conversation (GC)", I pointed out that many secrets of the Chinese are already out in the open but their significance not noticed or realised.

Pai Gow is one of many such open secrets. So widely exposed to the American public, yet no one knows the secrets behind it.

There are weird characteristics of the Chinese that just won't reach out to the GC or somehow impose self-damning restrains to bringing matters up.

Surely what I have brought up so far must be easily known by say at least 100 million other Chinese out of a world population of 1.8 billion (Chinese diaspora included). Let's be even more conservative, say 10 million. Yet not a word of what is in this blog of mine is found anywhere else, hitherto. What can explain this sort of statistical probability except that the Chinese character is weirdly reticent in this regard.

It is well known that although China is the world no 2 economy, but when it comes to brand building, it is still like a baby learning and can only take baby steps to improve.

When you look at a Western advertisement of a prestigious product, you can immediately identify with the product and the glamorous celebrity in the advertisement at one glance.

Chinese products reaching the International Arena when advertising still have to name the celebrity and uses English to do so (yet no one knows him/her from Adam or Eve). And then, even more puzzling, needs to describe what the celebrity is famous for and do so in this instance in Chinese character writings. How on Earth are so many Chinese Bananas and other non-readers of Chinese character writings throughout the world supposed to follow and understand? All the advertising dollars are simply poured down the drain.

How a culture advertises and approach brand building is an excellent indicator of how the culture communicates.

Chinese at the moment, unfortunately, still don't get it. How to communicate to reach out to and stay up in the GC.

More dangerously, an irascible President Donald Trump may get confused and irate with this wishy-washy nature of muddled Chinese communication and impatiently start a war with China.