Major props to people posting these, and sharing to others that they’ve been lied to. Western powers want to instill a culture of fear about saying anything positive about China, like a psychological hurdle we have to jump over, because it could earn us the vitriol of friends and family.
My friend’s girlfriend is Chinese and when I first met her we talked about China for a bit and she later told him that she wasn’t used to people talking positively about China. He told me she sometimes lies about her ethnicity to avoid people being racist. made me want to punch a wall
Major props to people posting these, and sharing to others that they’ve been lied to. Western powers want to instill a culture of fear about saying anything positive about China, like a psychological hurdle we have to jump over, because it could earn us the vitriol of friends and family.
Normalizing talking positively about China is honestly one of the important things that we can do right now.
My friend’s girlfriend is Chinese and when I first met her we talked about China for a bit and she later told him that she wasn’t used to people talking positively about China. He told me she sometimes lies about her ethnicity to avoid people being racist. made me want to punch a wall
My sister can pass for Japanese. She doesn’t dissuade people from thinking this, as natives are not well loved where she lives. It’s a hellhole.
(She also has taken a sharp turn towards fascism, and claims there’s no racism there while simultaneously doing this… But that’s another story).