First of all, I want to say that it’s wonderful to see all of you here, and your critical support of the nation I proudly call home. But more and more recently, especially reading through Chinese internet too, there has been a sense of overconfidence and overglorification of China. It is honestly a little worrying at times for me, because as much as I love my homeland and is proud of what we are doing, I know full and well that we are still a long way to go. I see this sentiment of China being the glorious land far away as a bastion and utopia against Western Imperialism and while there’s a lot of truth behind that sentiment, and I definitely understand why one not living in China would choose to believe this (I live in the US now and I understand your pain, fellow US comrades). I just want to remind everyone to exercise dialectal materialism on this subject and try to look at China in a less idealised way. We cannot grow to be better without recognising our mistakes. Anyways that is my little message to you all. Have a nice day!
Valid point, OP. What worries me about overglorification of any specific country is that it verges into nationalism which isn’t very ML.
I think mild nationalism is acceptable. Anyway Mao took nationalism to set up new China.You can also find some extreme nationalits in Chinese internet but they can not represent the whole China. China has 1.4 billion people you can find different kinds of people. China even has a big group of reverse nationalists whice think it’s a shame to be Chinese, they call other Chinese 支那人, which can be regarded as ChingChong
Depends on the nationalism, really. The IRA fighting for sovereignty is based, but Hong Kong pleading to get recolonized by Britain is cringe.