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> 2. Chinese citizens working and living in a free country will import these values back home (false) > For the majority of Chinese citizens coming to the US t
by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> 2. Chinese citizens working and living in a free country will import these values back home (false)
> For the majority of Chinese citizens coming to the US to study or work, they do not care about knowledge, enlightenment, or the freedoms that the western civilization values so much. They are here for the thing that their society values most - $$$. Do not think for once that the Chinese care at all about western "freedoms".
The problem is that they've been deliberately kept ignorant about western freedoms (and fed a fair amount of propaganda to counter them), and that the West hasn't been trying hard enough to impart understanding and spread them. The false part of #2 is that merely working or living in a place does not lead to fast assimilation of its values.
When Chinese people actually learn about liberal values, they want them and fight for them:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/01/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-education-china.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/01/world/asia/hong-kong-prot...