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My friends from the mainland call these people 愤青, which means "young jingoistic men". Any sleight against China and they’ll come in droves: screeching, gibberi

My friends from the mainland call these people 愤青, which means "young jingoistic men". Any sleight against China and they’ll come in droves: screeching, gibbering, and proclaiming the eternal glory of the lunar kingdom (and its subsidiaries). These trolls just want to feel big. Bullying other countries make them feel big. Especially when the smaller country in question the one they dream of conquering.

ionised 8y ago
Your entire post also perfectly describes most Americans I encounter on social media. I think it's just young uneducated idiots, taking credit for the accomplishments of their nation that they personally had no part in to try to convince people they argue with online that they aren't as insecure as they obviously are. It's an inferiority complex.
- z2 8y ago
  There's a quote I can't find that echoed this, from a former ultra-nationalist, who said she, despite being unemployed, in a rut, etc., was still a citizen of her country, and so she clung to vocal nationalism for a sense of desperately-needed purpose.
  - ionised 8y ago
    Not sure who you are referring to, but there is a great Schopenhauer quote along the same lines: The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellow men. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority. – Arthur Schopenhauer Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

ionised 8y ago

Your entire post also perfectly describes most Americans I encounter on social media. I think it's just young uneducated idiots, taking credit for the accomplishments of their nation that they personally had no part in to try to convince people they argue with online that they aren't as insecure as they obviously are. It's an inferiority complex.

z2 8y ago
There's a quote I can't find that echoed this, from a former ultra-nationalist, who said she, despite being unemployed, in a rut, etc., was still a citizen of her country, and so she clung to vocal nationalism for a sense of desperately-needed purpose.
- ionised 8y ago
  Not sure who you are referring to, but there is a great Schopenhauer quote along the same lines: The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellow men. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority. – Arthur Schopenhauer Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life