english new year

I was having a little chat with my lecturer about new year. He is an Englishman, and he told me that during their New Year, they also have family gatherings with their relatives, cousins who haven't met in a year, then they will catch up with one another, trying to show off that they are doing better than the rest, etc etc. I was kind of surprised they have this culture as well.

That sounds pretty much like us Chinese, some will wear the thickest of their gold chain (like bicycle chain) and the biggest of their diamond, their closest replica of branded handbags, and show off to other families during Chinese New Year.

This kind of reminds me of some Asians having this mentality that Asian moral values are superior over Western's, blah blah blah... another cow crap. Just because the Westerners do it and term it differently, does that mean they don't have their own values? It's just like how the commies term it "market economy" when they practice capitalism.

By the way, my European classmate watched the show at Chinatown during Chinese New Year's Eve and he found it boring. He said the TV artistes were performing on the stage and the spectators just stood there with no reaction. And when the whole thing ended, everyone just made their way to the MRT station, no celebration no nothing. Maybe he was expecting some partying?

*shrug* Such is a thing called culture.