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Han supremacy? Laughably absurd. Just because some other cultures have a history of thinking they're better than everyone else doesn't mean that every culture d
by bobbyz 6y ago
Han supremacy? Laughably absurd. Just because some other cultures have a history of thinking they're better than everyone else doesn't mean that every culture does. Accounts of what China and the West thought of each other survive from the era of Marco Polo. The Chinese thought of Western Civilization with equality and respect. The West's opinion on the Chinese? Barbarians.
Every country has its bigots, but suggestions that a country that just came out of hundreds of years of institutional racism from the Qing and then the British opium wars has a deliberate agenda based on race supremacy just sound like projection to me.
Confront the mirror.
- dimitrios1 6y agoThis is some grade A+ projection over here. Han chauvinism was so bad that Mao Zedong drafted a party directive specifically to address it.
- bobbyz 6y agoPlease explain to me how its projection. Modern China's problem is the abundance of uneducated people. The racism mostly stemmed from ignorance. Same exact reason that when I visited Ecuador people pointed and stared. The wiki article doesn't even state that 'Han chauvinism' was 'bad'. It doesn't list a single incident of 'Han chauvisnism'. Do you know what the little red book is? You took the first result from google search and you didn't even read it.
- dimitrios1 6y ago> Do you know what the little red book is? Yes, I do, in fact... http://www.mzdbl.cn/maoxuan/maoxuan5-e/mswv5_25.htm http://www.mzdbl.cn/maoxuan/maoxuan5-e/mswv5_25.htm
- bobbyz 6y agoWow! Did you google that all by yourself! Impressive! A+! You're about 0.5% of the way there to being qualified enough to lecture somebody about their own country!
- dang 6y agoWhoa, you can't post attacks like this regardless of how wrong someone else is, or how unfairly provoked you feel you were. In fact, the flamewar comments you've been posting in this thread are way outside what the HN guidelines allow. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site as intended? I understand how frustrating it can be to be defending a minority view or to feel that others are ignorant on the internet, but burning the environment to a crisp is not an ok option—and it also does your own views the disservice of discrediting them. Assuming your views are true, then you're discrediting the truth, too - which is bad for all of us. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=truth%20discredit%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... Edit: Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24563352 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24563352 also.
- bobbyz 6y agoAlso, quite amusing you gave it a grade of A+. Can you define your scale? What constitutes A+ and is that the highest rating? Is this really the best example of projection you've ever seen?
- free_rms 6y agoThe phrase han supremacy itself is projection. It's super American to put things specifically in racial terms. Mao was giving minority cultures exemptions from the 1-child policy, subsidies, and all sorts of other stuff at a time when we were running Jim Crow. 90%+ of Han Chinese only ever see other Chinese, they do have a sort of belief that their culture is the best culture on the planet and the center of the world but so does everyone else, especially Americans. We can't say a thing.
- bobbyz 6y agoHan Supremacy. I can't take these clowns seriously.
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