Comments on: Dr. Norman Bethune 白求恩: The Canadian admired by over a billion people in China, but virtually unknown in Canada

By: yuguo

yuguo — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:41:31 +0000

Do you know who incurred the violence during anti Japanese war? If you don’t know, don’t speak in such a stupid way. Bethune was helping Chinese people in fighting against Japanese invasion. It was Japanese people incurred the violence.

By: Kursk

Kursk — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:48:05 +0000

Well, I suppose there is not much good to say about supporting an ideology that has murdered over 180,000,000 people worldwide since 1917.

What would the inscription say? ‘I helped enable totalitarianism’? or ‘useful idiot who enabled murderers’?

For every one person saved through transfusion(to kill for Mao) thousands more lay in unmarked graves, courtesy of people like Bethune who supported violence and chose to walk that path.

Maoists in China, and leftists in Canada might remember him, but will shy from the discussion mentioned above.

By: t-dawg

t-dawg — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:29:39 +0000

well gravenhurst has some highland games and a turkey festival every year… but i’m not too sure it does them that well.

Yea “canada in history” is the same series with the burnt toast chick and how canadians invented basketball and penicillin

By: stephen

stephen — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:50:29 +0000

Was that “Canada in History” the same series of commercials that mentioned the neurosurgeon and the lady who smelled burnt toast?

Past aside, it’s almost baffling that nobody in Canada (government, but especially private sector) is not using Canada+Bethune as a platform for improving relations and creating opportunity.

How is Gravenhurst’s economy doing right now? I’ll take a shot in the dark and say it’s sleepy at best. Here’s an idea: why don’t they create some sort of museum or something about Bethune’s life. The money that could be made from rich Chinese tourists alone wanting to visit his birthplace while in Canada would eclipse the cost of setting that up in a year, guaranteed.

Nah, that would be too logical. Just go the North Bay route and install a carousel and mini-train instead. PS: Also, kudos to the city of North Bay for creating a Weebly page for this; using GeoCities would have been so unprofessional…

By: t-dawg

t-dawg — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:14:59 +0000

You hit the nail on the head. The ending of the Sino-Japanese war coincided with the begginning of a full on, half century battle against communism from a western perspective. No possitive light was shown on any communist during these years, and it’s amazing Bethune wasn’t crucified as a traitor to his country… given the circumstances.

The only redemption that Canada deserves is that i saw, a few years back, a sort-of public service announcement commercial aired on CTV. “Canada in History” that ignored his political affiliations and gave credit to his selfless dedication to healing the sick. But for the most part Canadians remain completely oblivious to his standing the world over.

Come to think of it, the only reason i know of him is because of you steve… You’re so enlightened lol