Fan Shen and the Ideology of Identity

I noticed that in this article (and the many responses) focused on the other languages, that is, the "Spanish" and "English," which constitute in my mind the definition of an OTHER.  Unlike most responses, I know several people personally who are CHinese, Korean, and Japanese.  In their language structures they usually do things syntactically different than we do.  For example, in Hangul (Korean) they structure the verb to end the sentence rather than be the middle that will determine what's going on in the sentence.  This is often why most Asian people who speak English may sound awkward.  Another thing I know about eastern languages in general is that they do not use (or rather they have a different set of articles and other defining methods so they often omit or do not use them in the English language.)  For example, many asian students may write: I went to movies and saw show.  The main issue is not so much the structure in this case, but the missing articles.
In other languages, like Shen's Chinese is that they have a similar structure, but an ideological difference.  This happened to be a point of a discussion the other between me and my Chinese friends where the Communist language often comes out to be about the "us" instead of "me."  Although Shen does not go this far, it is suggestive that their is no "individual voice" in a place where is no "individuality."  As a person who has taken Korean, had to write Chinese characters, play on their instruments, and compose in their style can tell you that it is NOT a very Western way at all.  As Shen calls it "yijing" which is very non-western because often times especially in the composition of Asian traditional is that music balance (i.e. piano part here and violin section there) does not exist.  Most of the time, they are unified under one sound.  This is not writing persay, but it does reflect I think a good deal of what Fan Shen is talking about.
Although this may not directly influence my writing it does impact my thoughts on teaching foreign students.  I am quite aware of Shen's thoughts and so I think that it mainly confirms what I already know about the language and culture.  It not only affects for me to teach them, but work on a personal basis to understand them.  When one can understand another culture, the better chance they have in succeeding with that group in educating them.  Shen's article really is a fantastic way to see what is little talked about these days: how to react to a Communist mind through writing about academic literature.