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Inspired by the recent c/AskLemmy question about Myanmar.


As a PRC-born ethnic Han-Chinese person who currently is a US Citizen and reside in the US, I'm curious on what people think of my former country.

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[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately, it's trump squinting his eyes, and saying "China!" with a pause and a scowl. Rent free in my brain.

Second thing I guess is some bullshit where they were cracking down on Ramadan in a news article.

Third I suppose is the rich history and cultural tradition.

[-] SoulKaribou@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

Rude, impolite and loud people. But not all Chinese people are like that. But the ones that are stand out the most.

Rude, impolite and loud people.

Bruh...

Did you meet a rich / middle-class tourist that acts entitled? Because like... that's not really the reality. Most ethnic Chinese people actually act very polite in front of other people (at least that's the case with my parents and relatives), since this is a "face" thing. Its behind closed doors that they start to drop the act and just be like: "Why are you so fat" (my mom literally said that to me lol). But like... Rude? In Public? 🤔

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[-] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

The first thing I think of is "propaganda" but you might not expect why. I grew up in the western world, hearing constantly that China was basically the epitome of evil. Their government is evil, their people are evil, the very land they walk on is evil, everything they've ever done has been evil. In history we only learned about their crises and the times they caused problems for the western world.

Unlike my peers, however, this made me curious. Why are you telling me so constantly that they must be evil? Can't there be good people there doing their best just like we are? And then things started getting weird in the western world. Then they got worrying. Then they started really taking their masks off and I realized "ohhhh you were projecting the whole time weren't you?"

I still don't know much about China. I don't know what your culture is really like, how the people actually treat each other. I don't know basically anything about you. I'd love to learn though, if you're willing to teach.

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[-] RBWells@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

Such an enormous country. Old people doing tai chi in a park. Little kids earning red stars at school. Government trying to control the population too tightly, yet somehow also lacking basic safety regulations. Good food.

[-] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago
  • Interesting mythology and past.
  • Technologically advancing.
  • Many ethical issues against people by the Government.
  • They are very into the illusion of being a paradise.
  • If you are a person not from there, it can be a potentially traumatizing experience, depending on what parts of the country you go to.

If you are a person not from there, it can be a potentially traumatizing experience, depending on what parts of the country you go to.

Actually, foreigners (white foreigner to be precise) such as Youtubers Serpentza and Laowhy86 managed to go around China and make videos critical of the CCP and they didn't end up in prison or anything. But if a Chinese person attempted the same thing, they'd probably get jailed. I feel like there a sort of "foreigner privilage" that basically the CCP doesn't want to get involved in a diplomatic incident, but is otherwise happy to punish their own citizens (since there wouldn't be any diplomatic incidents).

[-] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I didn’t even mean trauma from the gov’t, which is a whole different level, but trauma from its own people. My wife traveled to China for work and it was not great for her.

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[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

If you want to pretend to know something about China and badmouth them you should at least know the CCP doesn't exist.
The CPC does.

Actually the "CPC" doesn't exist because it's called 中国共产党

做五毛前,先学点中文吧。

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Your confused with the non-existing country Taiwan
Your comment literally translates as CPC.
Besides the nasty insult you paid propaganda people can't do without apparently.

[-] meliante@lemm.ee -5 points 2 weeks ago
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