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You don't see visible homelessness nearly as much as in US big cities. Chinese friends I've discussed this with attribute it to familial piety acting as a much
by lph 7y ago
You don't see visible homelessness nearly as much as in US big cities. Chinese friends I've discussed this with attribute it to familial piety acting as a much stronger safety net; people will make big sacrifices to save their relatives from total failure. It's expected, and a stark contrast to the American notion of extreme individualism. There's also no opiod epidemic.
- tyingq 7y agoThat's interesting...so more societal than government structure. Anyone know what the closest remaining country is to actual communist dogma is? Vietnam? Cuba? Also interested in what the most purely socialist country might be.
- Erlich_Bachman 7y agoVenezuela?
- Apfel 7y agoHomelessness in China is visible and universal, but you have to know where to look. There's a lot of shame associated with it, just like disability (I'm sure you've probably noticed you don't see many disabled people in China either). https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-life-like-for-disabled-people-in-china https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-life-like-for-disabled-people... I fundamentally reject that filial piety is the reason for this (filial piety causes all sorts of other social problems, too). People in Confucian cultures hide things they see as shameful to protect their 面子. If anything, I think this indicates there are far darker unseen truths in Chinese society that we are insulated from through the 'face' system.