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I watch a lot of youtube videos from China from people interested in electronics. They're always out and about, shopping, having a great time. It's not the grea

I watch a lot of youtube videos from China from people interested in electronics. They're always out and about, shopping, having a great time. It's not the greatest source but it shows me it's really not this total crumbling s&+thole western media makes it out to be. The internet makes China out to be this place where everyone is just always working, have almost no rights anymore, constantly surveiled so they can't have fun or enjoyment, just NPC's making womens underwear for 2 cents an hour. I think it's just projection from the failures of their own country to be honest.

vackosar 8y ago
could they be faking the lifestyle?
hyperbovine 8y ago
That is a complete red herring. No one on this thread said any of those things. I think the media and internet portrayal of China these days is fairly accurate: a country filled gleaming new cities and hordes of well-off people, and also one in which you can get executed for stealing, disappeared for practicing the wrong religion, and tortured (or worse) for speaking out against the government. Also the fact that you seem to equate shopping with freedom strikes me as very American :-)