Consider the following Los Angeles Times report about China's new "openness" loosened up by the Sichuan Earthquake.
The problem with this "spin" is that all this time, the biased Western press, staffed by Westerners with their "cultural prisms" and bags and baggages carried from their social-cultural conditioning, never transcended their stereotypical imagery of the Chinese as faceless, amorphous, inaccessible masses of "blahs."
How wrong are they, including many so-called "China experts," and many of these Western expats studying and living inside China, in major cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, who can't get off their "privileged" status as foreigners, albeit, Westerners, suffused with a "superiority complex." Click on the L.A. Times story and see how they spin it:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-chipolitics17-2008may17,0,824582.story
