Roaming around the internet and watched this video after I saw someone tweet about it. Before you watch this video, think about this question: What does Chinese New Year mean to you?  Chinese New Year is a festive season where you buy new clothes, dress up yourself, visit relatives, have fun, catch up with those people who you haven't seen for a really long time, collect angbaos (and get $$$), eat good food, enjoy sweet stuff and forget all about dieting. Okay, all of the above aint the real reasons why Chinese celebrate the Lunar New Year. But, it is a season that we all enjoy and have fun, isn't it?



The only reason that i can come up with after watching this video is that this person must have hated Chinese New Year? I mean, even if you have no idea why you celebrate Chinese New Year, but you get holidays, get to eat, get to shop, get to have fun, you wouldn't be criticising Chinese New Year right?

"In my country Singapore, we celebrate Chinese New Year, on February." -> Not only Singaporeans celebrate Chinese New Year. To be exact, CHINESE celebrate Chinese New Year. Whether you're an Indonesian Chinese, Malaysian Chinese, China Chinese, Taiwan Chinese, or wherever Chinese. And, Chinese New Year isn't celebrated in February every year. It follows the Lunar Calendar and can fall in January too, just like this year. If you don't know when's Chinese New Year yet....It's on the 23 January. And that's just the first day of Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year is celebrated over a period of 15days. AND NOT ONE MONTH??!!!!

Okay I seriously can't be bothered typing out the lines from the video.

Chinese New Year isn't a copy of the American New Year. And it isn't the same idea. There are many customs that follow the Chinese New Year, and things that people do during Chinese New Year that you don't do during the New Year. Anyway, you don't even do anything during the New Year, do you? You probably just count down....10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 oh it's a new year. AND SO WHAT? ITS JUST A BRAND NEW DAY FROM YESTERDAY! Chinese New Year is meaningful, it's a festive season that all Chinese celebrate, celebrate togetherness, happiness, and a brand new start.

Please get your facts right before you create a video, kid. Even in the media industry, you have to get facts, evidences, quotations, etc. Or even in the entertainment industry, people create films based on facts and history. They even have to do research before writing the story. You're a Chinese, and you don't even know your own culture. Even if you don't know how to appreciate it, please do not insult the culture. And you don't even know what does “新年快乐万事如意” means? Wow.

He is probably just an ignorant kid who wants to express his opinions on the New Media, just like what many people have done and gotten famous. But the topic is really sensitive and well, let's just blame it on the "freedom of speech". The problem with the freedom of speech that we have is that it creates a platform for people who post without thinking insulting a greater audience more frequently. It's not that we can't express our own opinions, it's just that we really have to think if what we say is going to affect anyone, or insult anyone.

That's all for today, I need to get back to scrapbooking again!

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Roaming around the internet and watched this video after I saw someone tweet about it. Before you watch this video, think about this question: What does Chinese New Year mean to you?  Chinese New Year is a festive season where you buy new clothes, dress up yourself, visit relatives, have fun, catch up with those people who you haven't seen for a really long time, collect angbaos (and get $$$), eat good food, enjoy sweet stuff and forget all about dieting. Okay, all of the above aint the real reasons why Chinese celebrate the Lunar New Year. But, it is a season that we all enjoy and have fun, isn't it?



The only reason that i can come up with after watching this video is that this person must have hated Chinese New Year? I mean, even if you have no idea why you celebrate Chinese New Year, but you get holidays, get to eat, get to shop, get to have fun, you wouldn't be criticising Chinese New Year right?

"In my country Singapore, we celebrate Chinese New Year, on February." -> Not only Singaporeans celebrate Chinese New Year. To be exact, CHINESE celebrate Chinese New Year. Whether you're an Indonesian Chinese, Malaysian Chinese, China Chinese, Taiwan Chinese, or wherever Chinese. And, Chinese New Year isn't celebrated in February every year. It follows the Lunar Calendar and can fall in January too, just like this year. If you don't know when's Chinese New Year yet....It's on the 23 January. And that's just the first day of Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year is celebrated over a period of 15days. AND NOT ONE MONTH??!!!!

Okay I seriously can't be bothered typing out the lines from the video.

Chinese New Year isn't a copy of the American New Year. And it isn't the same idea. There are many customs that follow the Chinese New Year, and things that people do during Chinese New Year that you don't do during the New Year. Anyway, you don't even do anything during the New Year, do you? You probably just count down....10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 oh it's a new year. AND SO WHAT? ITS JUST A BRAND NEW DAY FROM YESTERDAY! Chinese New Year is meaningful, it's a festive season that all Chinese celebrate, celebrate togetherness, happiness, and a brand new start.

Please get your facts right before you create a video, kid. Even in the media industry, you have to get facts, evidences, quotations, etc. Or even in the entertainment industry, people create films based on facts and history. They even have to do research before writing the story. You're a Chinese, and you don't even know your own culture. Even if you don't know how to appreciate it, please do not insult the culture. And you don't even know what does “新年快乐万事如意” means? Wow.

He is probably just an ignorant kid who wants to express his opinions on the New Media, just like what many people have done and gotten famous. But the topic is really sensitive and well, let's just blame it on the "freedom of speech". The problem with the freedom of speech that we have is that it creates a platform for people who post without thinking insulting a greater audience more frequently. It's not that we can't express our own opinions, it's just that we really have to think if what we say is going to affect anyone, or insult anyone.

That's all for today, I need to get back to scrapbooking again!

Labels: Random