[SpamCop-List] Re: The chinese own spam

[Frog Prince]

"Marjolein Katsma"
| >| I don't know where you get the rose-colored glasses from.
| >
| > Place your hand carefully just above your nose.
|
| Glasses there - not rose-colored.
| Please explain.

My use of the term was a common in this area (USA) means that you are
looking at a dark and perhaps ugly situation with false optimism i.e the
ugly is tinted into a more pleasant appearance by being viewed through glass
(a mental ideal) that is improving the appearance, that the thing/condition
viewed is better than it really is based on a falsely positive assumption
about the situation

The reference to a reflected view is that I do not have a rose colorded
glass view but that  your presentation of the circumstances is similar to
the view I would see if I were looking at the reflection in your glasses.
(it's a bit complicated and I may not be expliaining it well)

http://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0631021.html

rose'-colored glass'es
a cheerful or optimistic view of things, usually without valid basis: He saw
life through rose-colored glasses.

1. of rose color; rosy.
2. bright; promising; cheerful: a rose-colored prospect of happiness.
3. optimistic; sanguine: a rose-colored belief that things will turn out
well.


A bit dated but may provide a better understanding:

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/9/15/125715

Take off the Rose-Colored Glasses & See the Real China, Senator Asks
NewsMax.com
Saturday, Sept. 16, 2000


The United States should stop seeing China as we want to see it and take a
careful look at the real China, a U.S. senator advises.

The U.S. needs to use more "unbiased" intelligence studies of China, Sen.
Richard Shelby, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
told the Washington Times Thursday.

"What we're interested in is good analysis; the nation depends on it,"
Shelby said. "It has to be good; it has to be accurate; it has to be
unbiased
But a Senate aide told the Times what the U.S. is getting is anything but an
unbiased view of China.

The aide told the Times the current crop of China "experts" tend to view
China as "a benevolent panda bear" based on past U.S.-Chinese ties. "And a
lot of that has seeped into the analytical products," he said.

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