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As to why I responded now, today is when I saw it. And I always get offended when people talk about me, never having spoken TO Me. And I wrote to you FIRST, before posting anything anywhere, and the reason I friends only set it simple, I wanted to know if I was overreacting, and if so, I was going to drop it and not post about it ever again.
I had already confronted you directly. Of course, you’re perfectly free to laugh about my journal, but there it is. And had you opened dialogue with me about this, I woudlnt’ have cared what you wrote here, ever, even after talking me. Because, as you pointed out in the original post, if you do your research, you have a right to say whatever you please. But you didn’t do any research on me, on what i was thinking, and you are still jumping to the incorrect conclusion.
The statement that started this was a slight on the whole arranged mentality culture, and a put down of cultures that still allow for this, and that was the whole moral behind the fic, sacrifice and obligagion, so there is no cultural superiority of any sort. Each culture has wondrous and terrible points, mine, communistic based, theocratic based, no mattter how wonderful, there are bad points, no matter how awful, there are beautiful things in it.
As far as the statement, the one single thing I have heard from everyone who ever lived in China or Russia is about the lack of choice. Since they lived there, I believed, and still do, that they know what they are talking about. That is where the statement came from. Hopefully this settles it. And I defreinded the post and made it open to any who happen across my journal, since it upset you that I was trying to find out from my friends if I overreacted without causing any potentially wide spread embarassment to you. I apologize for offending you by caring about that. So now we’re clear.