cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/60270646
For a generation disillusioned by endless war overseas and financial hardship at home, China is starting to look like a promising alternative.
cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/60270646
For a generation disillusioned by endless war overseas and financial hardship at home, China is starting to look like a promising alternative.
They’ll be disappointed to learn that China’s just as bad as the US, in some similar and some different ways.
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But also markedly better in many. I’ve worked in Changsha on and off for the last decade, and I’d move there to live in a heartbeat. The modern US I wouldn’t touch with a hundred foot pole.
That’s subjective of course - but, while I don’t know what you’re taught in the US (it’s actually exciting to learn that you still have schools, I thought they’d all been converted into gun ranges) about China, that some people are clueing up to the reality being different is an objectively good thing - even if it’s not all sunshine and roses in Xi’s world either.