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> these people are regularly disappeared in China and their lives are put at risk by doing this work. that's what I mean. how does this effect fashion?
by thrwway483 7y ago
> these people are regularly disappeared in China and their lives are put at risk by doing this work.
that's what I mean. how does this effect fashion?
- SolaceQuantum 7y agoIt affects how the counterculture is expressed. Look at the 996 movement for example. Things have to be done carefully, anonymously, covering your own tracks, with a sort of guerilla tactics and plausible deniability. Or, if I can be blunt- the difference between the american idea of being edgy and contercultural and the chinese idea of being edgey and countercultural is that the government in america will not run you over with tanks if you organize a public sit down. (However, make no mistake, the government in america will eliminate dissidents of enough threat in similar ways to china- see chelsea manning or the black panther movement.)
- thrwway483 7y agoso how does this effect clothing, dress, and behavior in public? on the surface does everyone look very compliant and homogeneous? or do they look the same and dress the same as the west? For example, do Chinese millennials use hair colors that don't occur in nature as often, etc?
- SolaceQuantum 7y ago"so how does this effect clothing, dress, and behavior in public?" Of course it affects behavior in public, as well as clothing and dress. You can't openly support movements- including the wearing of logos, brans, slogans, sayings, etc. "do Chinese millennials use hair colors that don't occur in nature as often" I'm pretty sure dyed hair is still considered popular and fashionable in east asian cultures, given the pop bands coming out of there!
- hoseja 7y agoOr, you know, the Occupy movement. There was a hushed coordinated government crackdown one day and then it just stopped.