(Clearwisdom.net) Many Chinese have come to Canada as technical professionals. You can find Chinese people in almost every corner of Canada.
A Chinese colleague of mine immigrated to Canada six months ago. She works very diligently, spending much of her time learning new knowledge and skills. She often asks me technical questions, which I always answer for her. One day after work, I was reading a book on my way home on the bus. She was sitting next to me and curious about what I was reading. She asked, "What are you reading?" I showed her the cover of the book, which was a bound edition of Zhuan Falun and The Great Consummation Way of Falun Dafa.
I looked at her perplexed expression and asked, "Do you know about Falun Gong?" She replied, "Of course, who doesn't know about Falun Gong in China?" I knew what she thought she knew about Falun Gong, so I briefly explained to her how Falun Dafa had spread to over sixty countries. I also told her about the persecution that is taking place in China and the staged self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square. When I mentioned that Jiang's faction had resorted to using all of the state-run media to deceive people in order to try to legitimize the persecution, she said she already knew about that. Her father is a key person in charge of a TV station in a large Chinese city. She has a pretty good understanding of how the Chinese media works. However, she did not believe that Falun Gong was persecuted so cruelly.
She said, "My father once told my family that more than 70 percent of the news in China is fabricated. When it comes to political news, the odds of fabrication are even greater. However, we can only discuss this behind closed doors. Political news must be checked from one level to another. It doesn't matter whether the news is true or not, what's important is what the higher officials want the public to hear."
She went on to complain about when her father changed her major without her consent. After taking the college entrance examination, she was accepted by a news editing and directing department at a university. Through a personal relationship, her father transferred her major to the department of Finance and Accounting. She was very angry. She said, "I don't want to be an accountant. It is too stiff and rigid. How nice it would be if I were a reporter, going all over the country to interview people." I understood, though, her father's intentions to steer her away from that profession.
My company held a party on Christmas Eve. I used the opportunity to prepare several dozen gifts, including small, beautifully made Christmas gift bags and chocolates. In addition, I gave everyone two Falun Gong truth-clarification CD's and a music CD. There are several dozen colleagues from ten different countries, and I had not had the opportunity to clarify the truth to them before. Everyone happily accepted my gifts. Only the two Chinese colleagues had perplexed expressions, but they still accepted my gifts.
That day, this Chinese colleague happened to come in late. I had already given out my gifts, but I had given her a small truth-clarification booklet before. The colleague sitting next to her showed her my gift.
During the break, she said, "I think that it's not good for you to give foreigners Falun Gong materials. As a Chinese person, I feel disgraced. We are not supposed to reveal the family secrets to outsiders."
I sincerely told her, "I have practiced Falun Gong for more than nine years. Falun Gong teaches people to follow 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance' and become good, moral people. Yet the propaganda from the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) slanderous media has been poisoning people. The CCP has extended their tentacles overseas to poison even more people. It is not hard to imagine what it means when a being strays far away from 'Truthfulness-Compassion- Forbearance,' or to harbor hatred toward 'Truthfulness-Compassion- Forbearance.' It is due to a pre-destined relationship that we know each other. I have a responsibility to tell you the facts about Falun Gong's persecution."
She said, "After reading half of the small booklet you gave me, I could no longer continue. It directly attacks Jiang Zemin. Consequently, foreigners will look down on us Chinese. I felt very badly about this."
I told her, "You know what? In China, after Jiang Zemin launched this bloody persecution against Falun Gong, reports of more than 1,200 death cases have penetrated the information blockade and have been verified by the Minghui website. More than one hundred thousand Falun Gong practitioners have been detained in forced labor camps and mental hospitals, and have been severely abused. Eighteen female Falun Gong practitioners in Liaoning Province's Masanjia Forced Labor Camp were stripped naked and thrown into a male prison cell. Jiang issued an order that stated: 'Beating Falun Gong practitioners to death doesn't matter, it will be counted as a suicide.' 'Falun Gong practitioners tortured to death are to be immediately cremated without identification by family members.' This is to hide the incriminating condition of the body being reported. Even people as old as seventy and as young as several months old were tortured to death. If these people were your parents or siblings, how would you feel? Everyone tries to express his or her patriotism by saying that 'We should not reveal family secrets to outsiders.' While in fact, you know full well that these are dirty deeds, and that you are protecting them and letting these dirty deeds in the family continue to happen. Do you love China's leaders, or do you love the Chinese people and your country?"
Two days later, my company was about to shut down for ten days for the Christmas holidays. Some colleagues expressed their special gratitude to me and thanked me for giving them the CD's. It just so happened that a colleague who was sitting behind this Chinese colleague said to me, "I've watched the CD's you gave me. Thank you very much."
At the beginning of the New Year, I sincerely hoped that my fellow countrymen's minds, which have been twisted by the CCP's deceitful propaganda and education for many years, will awaken as soon as possible. Helping people understand the truth is the best gift I can give.
Translated on March 6, 2005 from an edited version of Minghui article
