I would recommend anyone who thinks Chinese people are overly "emotional" about their country ask 10 American bros why they love Americahttps://twitter.com/ericfish85/status/906252275269677056 …
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Other than that - the article's exploration of family/state conflation rings true with convos I've had, although is rather too general 2/
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There's the important q of why Chinese ppl might feel they are "looked down upon". Is it not bc for centuries they have been by West? 3/3
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the "emotion" of humiliation is rooted in an accurate perception of China's status in the western imagination
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I think this off for a couple of reasons: 1. China AFAIK has pretty jingoistic anti-foreign textbooks. Jingoism more acceptable when its not
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ethnocentric, which it is in China's case, but not America's. 2. I'm a "bro" - I didn't appreciate America until I went to China and
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learned what it's like to be a foreigner and understand the greatness of the American melting pot. 3. Sure, boxer rebellion, opium, spheres
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of influence, but really, it wasn't the west that humiliated China. It was Japan. P.S. I lived in Dandong
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