My very Reddit-influenced impressions about China circa 2016 (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Every building is a shoddily built hazardous death trap prone to collapsing at any moment
Food and consumer products are full of toxic chemicals because no one cares
Slavelike working conditions, insane working hours, suicide nets at factories
Every citizen is spied on constantly, one wrong thought means they will be dragged off in the middle of the night by the secret police
Arbitrary and nonsensical censorship of the media, to quote Mike from RLM on why Ghostbusters 2016 wasn't available in China "Your Communist government thinks the movie is witchcraft"
LGBT people oppressed
No regard for the environment, pollution everywhere, pristine nature destroyed to build empty ghost cities for no reason
A dystopian inhumane culture where everyone hates each other and has no regard for human life. There were so many Reddit stories about how in China drivers double back to kill pedestrians they hit so they won't be held criminally liable or because people faking accidents for lawsuits is so common. Also people step over people having medical emergencies on the street for the same reasons
Racist and jingoistic

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[-] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

censorship

I'm actually a bit salty about this because some of the Chinese webnovels (guilty pleasure) I've read got banned when they were halfway through for unclear reasons.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Even in China it's still out-of-touch old men who choose what is not allowed to be posted

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah, those censorship laws do feel a bit extreme as an outsider. But censorship as a general rule can be extreme and silly on petty stuff while letting some weird or unethical shit pass. It's kind of fun to study even offhandly what passes as taboo in different parts of the world.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah i recently watched a video of a guy interviewing japanese women on relationship related questions, and he asked a lot of girls if they think its ok for their bf to go have sex with other women. they said yes, but only for prostitution (??). the reasoning is that they see it as his needs not being met, not cheating, cheating is bad if they dont pay the woman. thats definitely taboo here lmao

a lot of the comments were malding over the japanese not being american style neocons over this

[-] Krem@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Watching a western movie in China and certain scenes being two seconds long because there was some sensitive subject mentioned/shown and the censors just cut it without bothering whether the movie now makes sense or not

Also every Chinese movie with themes of police/government corruption is not set in mainland China but in a "Chinatown" in a fake country in SE Asia, that looks exactly like China and every character speaks perfect mandarin but there's token street signs or ads in faux thai/vietnamese

I blame the stuffy boomers