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Not sure if it's really worth going into the politics for this one since news like this is becoming all too common. But that patriotism has a lot to do with how
by hd4 9y ago
Not sure if it's really worth going into the politics for this one since news like this is becoming all too common. But that patriotism has a lot to do with how China unites its very heterogeneous people firstly under a contrived 'Han' ethnic identity but also by drumming into them the idea that they owe everything (i.e. their modern standard of life) to the Communist party thanks to the Chinese economic boom.
The same Communist party who laid waste to virtually all of China's culture and tradition and killed off their intellectual and aristocratic elite. Now they get to have their opinions made for them even when they're not physically present on the Chinese mainland. What progress!
- fellellor 9y agoAll patriotism comes out of propaganda to some extent or the other. I don't mean to say that everyone is the same. But there is little to be gained in a discussion, where one feels that one country's patriotism is "true" and the other's is "fake" because of pure propaganda. In China's case, sure the government is actively covering their misdeeds. But that isn't the point I was referring to. All I'm observing is the CCP has been pretty successful in convincing (or indoctrinating) their people, to the extent that a one-off event like disabling the firewall would have practically negligible effect in disrupting the society.