Every Type Of Chinese Person You Will Meet

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  @klaize_ · 2 months ago · pinned

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• IS

  @ishkmusic · 2 months ago

  Wazzup beijing

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• UN

  @unifieddynasty · 2 months ago

  &quot;Race&quot; is a very loaded word in the western lens. &apos;Zhonghua minzu&apos; is standard nationalism, not racial. In the context of the &apos;rejuvenation of the Chinese nation&apos;, this pertains to China rising up again after being dragged through the dirt for over a century. Fundamentally, this is a slogan celebrating China overcoming great adversity, not of racial supremacy.

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• HU

  @huabinsitu6459 · 2 months ago

  Peasants liking Mao is genuinely true because both my father and mom&apos;s side love Mao because they were landless peasants before. My dad&apos;s side received land and their family farmed until my father migrated to the city to work. He still went to middle school but mostly worked on the farm to grow food for themselves. They were thankful for having land to farm.<br><br>My mom&apos;s side also received land as well and my maternal grandmother was sold as a kid to marry a rich disable kid. It was after the revolution, she was able to divorce and remarry to have kids.<br><br>Both sides literally received land to farm instead of being a landless tenet. All that opportunity stemmed from those reforms. The alternative would have been probably worst. So they are super loyal to Mao no matter where my parents relocated. I am sure most country is like that since 90% of the people of China came from peasant origins.

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• LO

  @LoriNobody · 2 months ago (edited)

  Some of this is outdated, but it is mostly fair commentary. I have encounter several of these characters. There is unspoken assumption that workers should be able to independently of the party. There are technically forms of independent organizations of sorts like rural militias and a handful of farmer cooperatives and communes. There is also a right of survival assumption that you can always just rough it as a farmer if you want to, which helps relieves unemployment and excessive business practices. <br><br>I think this chart might have missed a big category which is migrant workers who became a part of why Guangdong has been such a profitable region. A second-tier of workers with fewer protections for various reasons than the citizens of China. The migrant poetry became quite a splash back in 2015-2018.

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• BA

  @basedcomrade1595 · 2 months ago

  The pro Xi Maoist is the one I&apos;ve found most often among Chinese netizens. Actual Maoism is rare, but pro-Xi Maoism is somewhat common

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• FL

  @flowersonhills · 2 months ago

  i don&apos;t want straight arrow news i want gay arrow news

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• HE

  @HelldiversNeverSurrender · 2 months ago

  Klaize I think you are actually the only person on yt who fits the niche of explaining Chinese politics to American Zoomers without being Fox News or Serpentza adjacent.

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• ST

  @starhalv2427 · 2 months ago (edited)

  Fun fact:<br>Mohists were often experts on fortification construction, because as part of their opposition of offensive warfare, they f*ckin loved defensive warfare. They saw any improvements of defensive capabilities as a net positive, since it&apos;d dissuade others from doing offensive warfare themselves, and that expertise also allowed them to be recruited by important officials who could then be taught Mohist beliefs.<br><br>The reason it ultimately failed was because, while Mozi was respected by Confucians as a great philosopher, nobody made an effort to translate his teachings to a more modern language, his teachings were merely rewritten word for word, becoming impossible to read as minor mistakes accumulated and written language developed over centuries

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• SH

  @shibibi1 · 1 month ago

  Acknowledging the utter poop that is that political compass right at the beginning made me chuckle.

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• TA

  @tabinekoman · 2 months ago

  Now I more prepare in chinese internet. Thank you.

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• ER

  @erinamortis6450 · 2 months ago

  Another comment I wanted to make: i am not sure if it&apos;s the reddit thread or the assumptions of the person who wrote the script, but mohism is badly misunderstood here. &quot;Universal love&quot; is a questionable translation of 兼爱 as it would have been understood in Mozi&apos;s time. The mohists were drawn from late bronze age guilds, they were tradesmen and technocrats, they advocated for a strong self sufficient unified city or &quot;polis&quot; over the centralized imperial state. 兼爱 for them meant &quot;universal brotherhood&quot; between citizens of the polis that put aside class and education divisions, particularly in response to challenge or crisis. It was more akin to anarcho syndicalism or even libertarianism than socialism, but these labels are extremely anachronistic for late bronze age philosophy. Mohism was indeed radical and in some sense anti imperial for its time, but we have to understand the differences in that time versus ours. 爱 did not have the same emotional connotations then as now. The mohists were also not against private property nor were they state collectivist. They were opposed to the centralizing bureaucratic bent of the legalists and confucians.

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