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> Chinese don't see their government as an institution as much as an extension of their own identity An interesting hypothesis, specific to a group of states u
by WaxProlix 7y ago
> Chinese don't see their government as an institution as much as an extension of their own identity
An interesting hypothesis, specific to a group of states under the China umbrella. It'd be worth exploring more, maybe.
Of course what you actually said was "brainless sheeple asian values", which is very different in ways that I'm not particularly keen to get into.
- proc0 7y agoSure, that's not the best wording and was borderline trolling to make a caricature to keep it short. Didn't mean any offense to anyone as I'm not thinking of any particular people, but rather whatever behavior that is going on in mainland China that allows the government to do anything they want. So it seems this behavior is condoned by the people somehow. If this is completely voluntary, then those people are as bad as the government, and if it isn't then I can only conclude they turn a blind eye to avoid punishment. It's just hard not to also blame the people here, and somehow just blame the government... after all they are the ones to make this equivalence of how the government of China IS the people. If they blur this line, then why would we re-draw it?