Speechless.

Recently my dad is obsessed with this drama about Qin Shihuang or Shihuangdi, the ruthless first emperor of China. This morning I found him watching it again so I half-jokingly said: "wow you're addicted to this drama." Guess what my dad respond? He replied with confidence and disdain: "This is history! Do you understand? Do you even know who Qin Shihuang is? Hm! (did not even leave time for me to respond) You call yourself Chinese? Qin Shihuang is the first emperor of China...(blah blah blah blah)."

I stood speechless. Seriously? How can you get so much pride from learning something historical from a DRAMA? and plus, WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHO QIN SHIHUANG IS? Does he think that this is some kind of special and rare knowledge or something? And you know what, I actually learn about Qin Shihunag from real BOOKS, not these dramas that are known to exaggerate and make up things. Chinese historical dramas are not really known to be accurate and objective. Personally I would never hold too much belief in Chinese historical dramas. And here we have, a fourty five+ year old man, taking so much pride in this "knowledge" of history that he learns from a drama, trying to make fun of me by labeling me as ignorant of some basic Chinese history that even my American classmates would know. Seriously?

The only conclusion I have is that my dad truly has problems. I'm glad I did not refute him or anything because the further demonstration of his ignorance would only drive me insane.