Your Stories: Submitted Stories
- Poor Children
I was born in 1969 in an ordinary family in Hunan, China. I think at that time the poor people were less repressed or, say, more librated than before the liberation, and than after the cultural revolution. Yes, 5 percent of the "smart people" were having harder lives, as I witnessed.
I still think that the benefit is much greater than the detrimental effects, considering that 95% of the population were having a "human" life, and will have higher self-esteem.
To change the 2000 year old deep culture is not an easy task. Mao did a great experiment, but he failed. He, as a man, is also limited by history.
- Ping
Los Angeles, Ca
- Small Town Kansas Boy Marries Big City Chinese Girl
While serving with the U.S.Air Force from 1947 to 1968, my racist father surely would never have imagined that his only son would grow up to marry the daughter of two Shanghai physicians. Likewise, when their daughter was born during the darkest depths of the Cultural Revolution, they never could have imagined that their daughter would one day own her own home on a tree-lined street in a suburb on the other side of the world.
Though I grew up in Salina, Kansas, I have always had a very wide view of the world. I strongly believe that we are all one race, the human race. This view was reinforced during my own Air Force career, when I taught English to many new friends in Japan. I then met my wonderful wife while we both were students at the University of Kansas in the early 90's. That first Thanksgiving visit to the extended family was tense, but they have now accepted our two perfect, human children. To top it all off, my wife is now preparing to enter medical school.
- Wesley
Merriam, KS
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