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Makes me happy when people talk about China as... just a normal country. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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Maybe silly but at my Korean classes there's a seemingly "apolitical" guy working in IT who plans to work in China's IT sector and we talked a bit about it. Just talked about how it's exciting but wishes it was less difficult for him to go, that they're making huge leaps in the IT field etc. Just nice to have a convo about it without Uyghurs or muh political freedoms or whatever coming up.

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[–] absolutefuckinidiot@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I work two jobs and speak to a wide variety of 99% working class people in both. When the topic of China comes up I find that most people have neutral or even positive view of the country. Talking to people only on Twitter or whatever would definitely make you think otherwise.

The ones who have a negative view are usually the types to watch some stupid probably fascist youtube and think they suddenly understand economics and go on about how China is collapsing soon cause of covid lockdowns or some shit. Even then I’ve had a lot of success just pointing out that US media can’t be trusted on the issue.

[–] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

All the American liberals around me in my experience get uncomfortable if I so much as praise China's rail infrastructure and seem to think that Uyghurs have been poured into the concrete or something.