When AIDS began running rampant in the West, the old countries of the Orient relied on their traditional conservatism as the main defense. Although many people were curious about the disease, it was considered basically "a Western thing." People took a wait-and-see attitude.
當愛滋病開始肆虐西方、人人自危之初，東方古國自恃傳統禮教保守之大防，許多人難免好奇，卻多半抱著「那是外國玩意兒」的觀望態度。