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The irony of Americans thinking it is Chinese who live in a "propaganda matrix"... while reading actual propaganda piece. Yes. "Jeffrey Epstein" was a suicide
by dpc_pw 7y ago
The irony of Americans thinking it is Chinese who live in a
"propaganda matrix"... while reading actual propaganda piece.
Yes. "Jeffrey Epstein" was a suicide. Americans electing Trump because... "Russian collusion". Bombing countries all over the world in the name of peace. "weapons of mass destruction". TSA. Prism. Student debt that can't be discharged.
Thinking that it's only "other evil governments" that use propaganda and deception, and US Gov. and interests groups are some beacon of truth, sincerity and transparency is just sooo naive.
Chinese in American have actual unconstrained access and understanding of both sides, they lived in both places, seen both systems. And you think their opinion is just based on "heavily brainwashing", because it is different than yours?
From me talking with Chinese in America, they are acutely aware of realities of the Chinese political system. But they are also acutely aware of realities of the western one. Much more so than Americans. They are not brainwashed, they are very realistic, pragmatic and smart. They just don't share some core beliefs of the western wold. They don't consider democracy as a good in itself. They consider the good of the community in relation to the good of an individual, relatively more important than westerners. And so on. And even when they do agree with theoretical advantages, they see first hand how little of alleged freedoms and benefits of western system actually materializes in practice.