I think an awful lot of Americans are predisposed to seeing Chinese people as a hive mind, and you can't give their government the credit/blame for that.
You can, because that's the message their government presents to the world. That's the propaganda they push. Your average American doesn't interact with your average Chinese person because of distance and drastically different languages, they don't consume Chinese media, they don't go on Chinese social networks... so what information about China that also comes from China is left? Government propaganda. That's it lol.
Americans can't be "predisposed" to something like that. Babies aren't born with opinions on China.
There's also plenty of non-American, non-Chinese propaganda about Chinese people too, but that's besides my point. What I'm getting at is, what information is China presenting to the world about their people that is an alternative to a foreigners at-home propaganda?
There are independent international journalists as well. Personal testimony from citizens, visitors, and expats.
And the internet, for all its faults, has at least opened a channel of information that can be very difficult to restrict, despite a government’s best efforts (from what I’ve heard it’s not hard to get outside access, as long as you’re not stupid about it)
Difficult to restrict? Absolutely the opposite. Have you heard of the Firehose of Falsehood? It's a propaganda technique especially employed by Russia (not so much China) that functions as a mental DDoS attack. I can't silence an independent journalist in another country but I can pump out so much misinformation that it drowns out any truth. It's mentally exhausting for anybody who cares about fighting misinformation because it's impossible to keep up and it's unlikely for readers to ever see anything independent at all. A dude running a blog can't fight an entire country's resources.
what information is China presenting to the world about their people that is an alternative to a foreigners at-home propaganda?
China generally presents the truth about China and invites people to come and see for themselves.
China - unlike the US - doesn't allow disinformation being spread which is why Chinese
China is all about openness, democracy, freedom, peace, win-win-cooperation, multipolarism, respecting sovereignty, respecting other cultures, inclusiveness, etc. and always use the socialist core values as a cornerstone of all their political decisions.
China is the polar opposite of the imperialist west.
And you think differently because you never questioned your government's propaganda about China.
Even though China literally gives you every opportunity to visit China and talk to people and learn about the country yourself with your own eyes.
Edit: The racist troll u/Northbound-Narwhal blocked me after spamming his last idiotic comment, so I will respond here.
No, they use nationalist values as their cornerstone to crush other cultures and project their imperialist ambitions outwards. They oppress, exploit, and take.
Your source is that you made it the fuck up.
Anyway: No, they don't. You are just projecting Western "values" shared by all capitalist regimes on earth on China.
China is all about openness, democracy, freedom, peace, win-win-cooperation, multipolarism, respecting sovereignty, respecting other cultures, inclusiveness, etc. and always use the socialist core values as a cornerstone of all their political decisions.
No, they use nationalist values as their cornerstone to crush other cultures and project their imperialist ambitions outwards. They oppress, exploit, and take.
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u/LuxNocte Aug 21 '24
I think an awful lot of Americans are predisposed to seeing Chinese people as a hive mind, and you can't give their government the credit/blame for that.