This fall I have done some new things.

To start off with I took out 50 000 CNY in cash. yup. To pay for school fees. Fudan doesn’t take cards (even though they are one of the biggest institutions).

Never had that much money in my handbag before. Thank goodness this is Shanghai and not South Africa. I would have pissed my pants otherwise.

The second new thing I’ve done is to move in with my boyfriend. It went well, I got everything the way I wanted (interior design wise), the only thing I had to give up was 2 zebra print pillows.

The third and very important thing is that I’ve started to teach poledancing! A mini-dream come true! yay!

And of course, I travelled to Japan ate buckets and buckets of sushi and saw a geisha!

(Kyoto)

+ I got lost on their subway about 2-3 times every time I tried to go anywhere

It doesnt make sense. At all.

Our neighbour came by to say hi and since he has become quite famous in the past year over here I decided to follow in the path of Pepsi and other sucessful businesses, use celeb status to promote a product: my blog.

So now that you’ve all seen a celebrity reading my blog you should all read my blog daily, thereby becoming happy, popular and sucessful people.

I wonder what it’s like to get thrown into fame overnight like that…

Me, my dad, Helene my cousins baby and Alexander.

I’ve assimilated into the Chinese society and now always pose with a peace gesture!

Spotted at Carrefour a bag of ”Woman in Childbirth Brown Sugar”

It was very pricey too, almost twice as expensive as the other brown sugars. I suppose it takes a lot more to produce women in childbirth brown sugar, sounds like hard work at least.

Merry Christmas, or as we say here in heathen Scandinavia, god jul!

I’ve had a snowball war against my brother (who served in Afghanistan), I won, 4 hits against 1.

It is clear that the Swedish army has too many bullets in supply because they don’t seem to learn any aiming tactics

I walked out on the ice on the lake which had frozen. But then it started making noises so I ran back on shore again.

Now we are about to go eat dinner and open presents at my uncle and cousins house!

Bye!

Thought it would be time to mention fallacies.

I use them sometimes, most of us do, but we need to be aware of them so that we can correct ourselves and strengthen our arguments.

In my previous post about Sweden being an antisemitistic country I recieved one upset comment that can serve as a very good example of strawman.

Definition of a strawman

”The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of ”reasoning” has the following pattern:

1. Person A has position X.
2. Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X).
3. Person B attacks position Y.
4. Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed.”

The comment to the previous post is suitable as an example:

1. I wrote that I would expect those individual Israely government officials who uttered those allegations about Sweden.

2. This person (anonymous) says (translation): So what do you think the Jews should apologise for? 2000 years of persecution by the west?

3. Because I think that Jews should apologise, and he/she also writes that anti-semitism is the same thing as anti-sionism, and I clearly am an anti-sionist (Im not) so therefore I am just trying to hide my attacks on Jews.

It should be fairly clear to see why this persons argument fails.

I didnt even say I think the Israeli government should apologise, but in the end I end up as a Jew-hater according to this person.

She/he also nicely avoids this part of what I wrote:

”Anti-semitism is a serious issue, the behavior exhibited by Israel’s government in this case ridicules anti-semitism, and completely undermines the true aweful meaning of anti-semitism.”

If you cry wolf too often no one will take you seriously.

On the topic of organs… I wonder how many times an organ can be donated before it is useless…?

I think organ donation should be the default setting for any dead person. If they don’t wish to donate their organs after they die they should state so, but otherwise take it all!

After all it does save life, and it’s not like your body will lie there under the ground intact for ever anyways.

Just saw a very short TV program (about 10 min) about Swedish history. It’s produced for children and very humoristic. This episode was about the christening of Vikings. Easier said than done.

I laughed so much hahaha (okay maybe I have childish humour)

darn, why did I miss the other 11 episodes. This was the last one.

If you understand Swedish then check it out here

Im enjoying the acess to youtube, and watching some Magnus Betner (a swedish comedian I love)

Here’s a clip in english

After spending weeks insulting Sweden, blaming Sweden for anti-semitism because the Swedish government refused to condemn a newspaper publishing an article where it was alleged that organs had been taken from dead people without the consent of their family, it turns out it was all for nothing.

Sweden’s government stated that just as they would not condem the publishing of the Muhammed cartoons, they would not condemn this article. And just as they refused to apologise for what an independent press publishes that offended muslims, the government also refused to apologise in this case.

Such hypocriticism to sit and shout for censorship when you feel it gets to warm at home, yet parade for freedom of press in the former case.

On top of high level Israeli politicians and officials throwing isnults at Sweden it now turns out that the incident of organ removal was true.

I find it highly problematic that certain people feel it is apropriate to throw the bullet ”you are an anti-semitist” in vain. Anti-semitism is a serious issue, the behavior exhibited by Israel’s government in this case ridicules anti-semitism, and completely undermines the true aweful meaning of anti-semitism.

I wonder if the Israeli government officals that threw these insults at the Swedish government are lining up to apologise. Clearly they seem to think that governments are responsible to apologise for what any of their subjects say so they definitely should be prepared to apologise for what they themselves individually said.

Most definetly a maybe!

You got to love Zapiro’s illustration