"The romantic idea has long persisted that the hundreds of thousands of Chinese students who enroll in Western universities each year are secret rebels who will change the country for the better. Except most are not." -- Cathedral meddling foiled again.https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/01/chinas-angry-young-nationalists/ …
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Replying to @Outsideness
Most of them are shockingly ignorant about politics. Even if (or maybe especially if) they are smart in a STEM sense, they won't be able to explain a basic concept like 'democracy'. Advancing their career is all they are interested in.
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Replying to @Disside20128775 @Outsideness
They will take over the world though, so we have that to look forward to.
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They’re nationalists and ‘they will take over the world’. Is that a coincidence in your mind? Maybe their anti democracy stance has more to do with their desire for power than a naive worldview.
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I'm against democracy myself, at least in this form, so I don't have a problem with that. I do have a problem with the lack of intellectual depth of their views. Take this video. You can see they are just dumb consumerist youngsters.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWa9fieWSU …
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Hi-tech consumerism + unculturedness + authoritarianism is worse than what we have in the west, where there is still a little room for authenticity.
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The West has fathomed the most despicable abyss of slave morality ever known upon earth.
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... There are far worse things than facile materialism.
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