> been through some serious shit in their lifetime That's for sure. Somebody actually hoping Falun Gong can be the cure for their cancer. It's not actually a

> been through some serious shit in their lifetime That's for sure. Somebody actually hoping Falun Gong can be the cure for their cancer. It's not actually a problem about economic policies and cultural revolution, I think the main problem was the government has failed to develop the infrastructure needed to educate and help those people. No, government was just let those people wander around by themselves without give them enough help, no wonder why they found such way to "help" themselves. > Their childhood and formative years would have consisted of Mao's self-genocidal economic policies and then the cultural revolution, then a complete repudiation of those communist ideals in the subsequent opening to the west. I don't think this is a thing, because I don't believe many people in China was that obsessed with communism to begin with. Lots of bad thing actually happened during cultural revolution and the great leap, enough for most of people to have realized. There is a misconception many (if not most) westerners have, that is China and Chinese people are communist. WRONG. In reality, most Chinese people are just normal people who lives under the communist ruling, and that's all. CCP of course always trying to push their ideology to the public (by education and censorship etc), but isn't that's an indication of "Not everyone believes communism in China"?