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It's unfortunate that you've only met the "New money"or tourists from China. On the whole the normal people living day to day are pretty nice and left me with the impression of "Why can't you be just like this when you get off the plane to wherever you are going?".
On my job, I had to work with some people from China that were okay'ish, but as soon as you start to dig a bit deeper, it usually falls apart very quickly imo.

Don't you dare criticize anything about chinese politics or ask about the Hong Kong protesters, which were all criminals in their opinion.
 

Mistake

Member
On my job, I had to work with some people from China that were okay'ish, but as soon as you start to dig a bit deeper, it usually falls apart very quickly imo.

Don't you dare criticize anything about chinese politics or ask about the Hong Kong protesters, which were all criminals in their opinion.
The propaganda machine runs deep. A boy one time asked me about why the japanese did so many bad things in the war, he was only 5. I had to explain that it was many years ago, and the people there now are very different. That really ate me inside.

I always said “when Mao is not on their money, then they’ll be alright.” That’s like if Germany put Hitler on their currency. Until then, forget it
 
the sad thing is, the CCP had done such a successful job in brainwashing it's people, you rarely find any mainland Chinese people that actually think logically. I am, of course, rather bias on this subject as someone with Chinese heritage and still have a pretty close tie with the Chinese community in the US. but having lived in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China, as well as the US does make me see things differently sometimes.

the mentality for most mainlanders is always "if the party is doing any bad things, it's all for the greater good of China and the root of the problem is all the oppression from Western powers like UK and US." that's basically 2~3 generation's worth of people being bombarded with these ideals using propaganda that had mixed a lot of exaggerated truth in them. and with the economic growth in the last 20~30 years, that view point had only grow along with it. because now they can finally come out on top from all the years of "oppression" from the westerners, and for the mainland Chinese people it also proves that the CCP is right and they should follow whatever the CCP is saying. the traditional Chinese culture and value also doesn't help of course, because while we did have great thinkers like Confucius, the general population for the most part only know bits and pieces of these sort of teaching. and throughout Chinese history, the people had never had any real control over their possessions since the government (not just CCP, but pretty every dynasty prior) can basically take all your things if they feel like it. this and the over growth of Chinese population in modern time had instilled a deep rooted mentality that you should just get whatever benefit you can out of your life. ethics and morals are really an afterthought (unless it directly effects you of course). combine all that with the poor education standards the previous generation had and the ridiculous "common sense" mainlanders had developed and pass down, it created a perfect brew of the bullshit we have that is modern China.

to be fair thou, I feel it's not a problem unique to China. a lot of other countries around the world right now are tipping towards that side on the scale. it's just not on that big of a percentage over those countries, yet. I still feel that population growth and the nationalism/tribalism that comes with it is the real problem, but that's for a whole other thread.
 

cryptoadam

Banned
What? How the hell is the CCP better than our clown media. What are you even talking about.

Because the media is starting to not act to far off from the CCP. Censoring and dog piling anything that doesn't agree with their narrative. Willing to push partisan politics above all else. Putting out lies to sow division.

We are talking about a media that runs cover for an alleged murders plot to poision her husband because it makes Trump look bad. That censors doctors because of the radical idea that strict lock downs aren't needed. Thats doing its best to ignore accusations against Biden and Flynn's prosectuion while pimping fake news about ingesting bleach and clorox.

And then we can talk about Jussi, Covington or the million other stories the media got wrong in 2019. Its a race to the bottom and the CCP had a huge head start but the clowns that call themselves journalist are doing their best to catch up to the CCP.
 

desertdroog

Member
I am from post-communist country, I heard few things myself, even when it comes to family...
Joe Rogan's latest podcast has him interviewing Jack Carr, retired NAVY S.E.A.L, who is authoring a book that looks like it will make it to a streaming service with Chris Pratt as the main star. In the podcast he talks about going hunting in August in Russia and using that experience to flesh out his book; the locals were hesitant to answer any pointed questions he had regarding the area, due to the history of the Politiburo arresting people who would give details on their lives to outsiders. Even in post Soviet Russia, these fears remain.

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