Thanks to the critism

These days i've been reading the comments under some Olympic-related articles on the website of The Economist.
I'm not keen on national or international affairs. Less do i log on any political related website. This time, a friend of mine short messaged me to log on that comment column and try to debate with some anti-China guys.
Some comments are indeed provocative. Not a good debator(otherwise i could talk back with power), I felt anger was stuck in my throat. After viewing some pages of comments, i think i was more objective than before.

These are some lessons i learned:

lesson1: Always debate with logic. Never lose a cool mind facing accusations.

lesson2: Face our problems. Accept those that make sense. It is true that many issues are left unresolved these days in China, and some reporters point them out. Maybe the tone they employed is not so favorable, even sarcastic, we have to consider their comments rather than fire back with anger.

I understand some Chinese commentators' uncomfort, for Chinese people are traditionally introvert. People are not used to encounter the pointing fingures so directly. I think I didn't fully accepted the reporters and some commentators' critism until maybe five days later.

lesson3:To those extreme guys who are aimed to make chaos, the ill-intended ones, I think it's no use to debate with them, for they are not level-minded themselves. Yet it's necessary to point out their purpose and find points that are not valid in their speech, otherwise their comments may mislead some inexperienced heads like mine. (I think i really need to reinforce my logic! I should have told some failts in some comments by myself through mere reasoning. It doesn't take too much knowledge on politics)

I'm very thankful for the debators. Though the articles they debated on in the Economist may not be so fair, well, it's the journalists' nature to pick on social ills, and it is inevitable that there be some 'prejudice-bearing' speech. What I can do is try to be more open-minded and tolerant, learn to be critical and cool, and love my country in an appropriate way.